Word: scotland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NSPCC (the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children)." Suspicious of the ad, the Times checked and found that no such deaths had been reported in Penzance and that Princess Margaret of Hesse, 72, who happened to be visiting Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral, was actually childless. Scotland Yard traced the ad to Rita Coleman, a local magistrate, who said a mysterious "Countess Maggie," whom she had never met, had contacted her at a charity she worked with and asked her to place the death notice of her three children...
British officials investigating the obituary now believe it may have been a coded message to East German spies operating in Britain to go for deep cover. The day before the item appeared, Scotland Yard arrested two East Germans, Reinhard Schulze, 32, an interior designer, and his wife Sonja, 35, a translator, and charged them with various offenses under Britain's Official Secrets...
Donald Weir (bag pipes) -- From Edinburgh, Scotland, he has been in this country for only two weeks. His schedule is loose, but Weir says plans to play regularly until Aug. 24. His show is somewhat of a novelty and is not to be missed...
...English-village mysteries of the kind wrought by Britons a half-century ago. Her seven novels have all been named for actual pubs, most of them in the English countryside, and until Help the Poor Struggler they have involved a quirky trio: a stereotypically literary, sensitive bachelor detective from Scotland Yard, a fey, scholarly nobleman who has eccentrically given up his titles, and, usually, the nobleman's meddling, Wodehousian aunt. That arch setup proved charming in her early books but has worn a little thin, as Grimes seems to recognize...
...liberal causes. He is now a professor of labor studies at Wayne State University. "My father loved this country from the moment he set foot on this land. He loved the sense of freedom. I remember being completely frustrated by trying to hit a baseball. My memories of Scotland are dim, but in the past 15 years I reached the conclusion that their society is more civil than ours. I think we're less caring about each other than we once were...