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...which they wear no clothes and refuse sanitary facilities. Later Thatcher helicoptered to the British army's most beleaguered Irish outpost, Crossmaglen, a heavily fortified and often attacked base in an area notorious for I.R.A. activity. Her speedy show of the flag in Ulster met with a sturdy rebuff from the I.R.A. Said a statement from the Provos: "The Iron Maiden's declaration of war is nothing but the bankrupt rattling of an empty...
Accurately enough, Tory Leader Joe Clark interpreted the big vote for the Liberals as a rebuff to the separatists. Said he: "Quebeckers, even if they did not vote for us, voted massively for federalism...
...popularity. Perhaps because local taxes tend to be lower in the South, there were also fewer manifestations of the tax-cut issue. In fact there were few issues at all: attention seemed to focus on such trivial things as, in Texas, a spurned handshake (Senator Tower's public rebuff to Democrat Robert Krueger) and, in Virginia, a famous wife...
...session with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance; as they left the State Department surrounded by Secret Service agents to protect them from placard-waving demonstrators, Smith grimly characterized the meeting as a sparring session in which there was nothing more than "a repetition of old ideas." In a pointed rebuff, Vance did not even bother to escort Smith from the State Department building as he customarily does with visiting dignitaries...
...returning to the U.S., Kennedy offended the Soviets by announcing the good news about the families at a press conference. Pravda retorted that "certain American politicians" who interfere in Soviet domestic affairs would be "resolutely turned down." That rebuff does not necessarily mean that the families will not eventually be allowed to leave, but it will be on Soviet terms-a reminder of the perils of mixing domestic politics with foreign policy...