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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...selling liquor. The dozen "houses of infamous character" that nourished in the West End of Boston were raided in 1823 by a party of citizens led by Mayor Josiah Quincy. In 1837 a riot between volunteer firemen and an Irish funeral procession was so serious that a militia cavalry regiment of 800 horsemen was required to restore order. As a result of these disturbances, a professional police force was created, modeled after the new London police. In 1863 this force, aided by the militia, put down the Boston Draft Riot; during its course, the previously unarmed police had to acquire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...SKINNER wanted to write his autobiography. So, true to form, he set out to manipulate his external circumstances so as to maximize the productivity of his pen hand. He established a daily regiment: two hours of work in a room maintained at optimal temperature and humidity, at precisely the same time each morning, immediately followed by lunch, his reward. He carried a pen and pad with him at all times, and kept a tape recorder at bedside, as crutches for his fallible human memory, which might miss stray bits of "verbal behavior" that popped out at inconvenient times. He also...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Totem and Taboo | 3/19/1976 | See Source »

Copeland, who had served in Britain's Parachute Regiment, was ordered court-martialed by F.N.L.A. Leader Holden Roberto, and shot by a firing squad. "Callan" reportedly escaped and hid out in the bush, nursing a leg wound. The British mercenaries called him "completely ruthless" and a "homicidal maniac." They said he spent much of his time shooting black tribesmen just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Mercenaries: 'A Bloody Shambles' | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

Drastic Love. Most of the stories here revolve around fussy, aging bachelors. The men are, as one tart-tongued female claims, typically Irish victims of "the whole monstrous regiment of wom en from Old Mother Hubbard, and Old Mother Goose, and Holy Mum the Church, down to Mother Ireland and your own dear departed and long-suffering Mother Machree." Thus in Mur der at Cobbler's Hulk, a retired travel agent lives in fastidious loneliness near a remote village. A woman attacks his prim self-sufficiency. "No love. No drink. No friends. No wife. No children. Happy man! Nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Celtic Twilight | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

London's response to the new violence was swift and decisive. Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced that some 600 troops from the crack Spearhead Battalion would be dispatched from England to South Armagh. In addition, 400 men of the predominantly Protestant Ulster Defense Regiment were deployed in the county. In a more drastic move, some 150 men of the elite Special Air Services Regiment (SAS) will be sent to Ulster. The dispatch of this counter insurgency strike force, which is specially trained to conduct guerrilla operations behind enemy lines, indicated that for the first time since the troubles began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Down the Road to Hell | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

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