Word: scotland
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...reason for European satisfaction with Reagan's speech. Though long used to being confronted with Washington faits accomplis, the NATO leaders this time had been kept informed on the evolution of the policy decision. The zero option was discussed in a meeting of allied defense ministers in Gleneagles, Scotland, in October. Three weeks ago, a draft of the final negotiating proposal was approved by a special NATO consultative group in Brussels chaired by Assistant Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger. He carefully briefed top European officials on the speech days before Reagan delivered...
...heavenly choir, an enveloping cushion of fleece and lots of silver streamers?at least a few moguls and a newsreel camera. Someone important might have been there to introduce these two acting legends about to cross paths for the first time. "Alice Adams, meet Young Mr. Lincoln. Mary of Scotland, this is Wyatt Earp. Tracy Lord, Tom Joad. Tess Harding, Mister Roberts. Ethel Thayer, say hello to Norman Thayer Jr. Katharine Hepburn. . .Henry Fonda...
Last month the firm stand of Thatcher's government thwarted the seven-month hunger strike in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland by men seeking the status of political prisoners. Scotland Yard believes that now an I.R.A. gang of about half a dozen members has come to London to begin yet another bombing campaign. The hope of the I.R.A. is that bombings in Britain will keep their cause in the headlines and force the government to pull its soldiers out of Ulster. That scheme seems to have little chance of succeeding: When the I.R.A. tried similar tactics...
...biological-warfare attacks against the civilian population, British authorities asked scientists at the Porton Down bacteriological research unit to conduct a series of experiments. The site: Gruinard Island, a bleak, uninhabited, 1½ mile-long patch of land that lies just 600 yds. off the west coast of northern Scotland. The tests were conducted with Bacillus anthracis, better known as anthrax, which has lethal and well-documented effects on both animals and humans. Anthrax is believed to have caused the fifth plague in Egypt mentioned in the Book of Exodus, and an outbreak of the disease swept through southern Europe...
...procedure, the U.S. operates under a temporary dispensation called an indult. The indult was granted by Pope Paul VI in 1969 as an experiment, because the American hierarchy requested help on its huge backlog of cases. (Canada got a less sweeping indult in 1974; Belgium, England and Scotland had indults which have now expired...