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...role of God." The six Catholic bishops of Northern Ireland expressed their opposition to the death penalty. In an act of blatant provocation on the morning of the vote, the I.R.A. staged its most devastating attack of the year in Northern Ireland. Four members of the Ulster Defense Regiment were killed by a land mine that destroyed their Land Rover...
...lieutenant in a tank regiment before he entered the priesthood, the Oxford-educated Kent became head of the C.N.D. in 1980. He led a drive that has expanded the membership from 3,000 to 50,000-in addition, there are at least 200,000 politically active sympathizers-and mobilized effective mass demonstrations against the Bomb. Last month C.N.D. members and their allies held hands to form a 14-mile chain between Greenham Common in Berkshire, where the first U.S. cruise missiles are scheduled to be installed later this year, and Burghfield, site of Britain's nuclear warhead factory...
...Kleist's acquiring his skill, stage by stage, almost as if it were a fatal disease. Young Heinrich was by heritage the "right stuff' of which Prussian officers were made. There had been 18 generals in his family. At 15 he joined the King's Guards Regiment. Seven years later, he resigned his commission, apparently intending to take up an equally conventional career as a model civil servant. The youth devised a program of Knowledge, Fervor and Moral Beauty. He became engaged to a pretty 18-year-old whom he congratulated on her good fortune...
...trim, perfect vessel, 412 ft. long, glided into overcast San Diego Bay a bit ahead of schedule after a five-day sail up from Mexico, and the regiment of photographers onshore nudged into position. Cannons roared from the escort frigate Diomede, and a U.S. battery returned the 21-gun salute. After Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia steered toward the freshly painted yellow moorings of the Broadway Pier, her Royal Marine band played, then a U.S. Navy band. Suddenly the craning crowd of 6,000 broke into unbuttoned cheers, while several hundred reporters looked on. There were even scattered choruses...
...sometimes the music is a weapon, and sometimes it is a trap. For centuries, Celts have given themselves battlefield noise and nerve with bagpipes, making the "our song" of the regiment, the tribe, stirring up the blood. The pipes have their wild rhetoric. It may both stiffen and imprison the spirit. Sometimes people cannot escape from their songs. The Irish gift for the instant ballad that glorifies this afternoon's martyr will ruin a human heart and turn children into killers, the heroes of tomorrow's pub songs...