Word: scotland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anderson insisted that Rowland, who paid $14 million in stock for the Observer, would maintain its "high standards." Others are not so sure. Though Rowland publishes papers in Scotland, he is primarily a corporate empire builder. He has expanded Lonrho, originally a small African mining and land company, into a multifaceted colossus, typically by buying shares in target companies, then joining the board of directors and fighting other members for control. He is now embroiled in such a battle for the House of Fraser, which owns London's Harrods and 109 other department stores...
...Scotland, according to Wixted, juvenile courts have been replaced with similar panels which have enforcement power and are based on the "strong belief that kids need treatment, not punishment...
...Paisley, Scotland...
...test of wills between the prisoners and British authorities has driven another wedge of bitterness between Ulster's Protestant and Catholic communities. Most ominously, the Ulster Defense Association, a paramilitary Protestant organization, has threatened to "eliminate" activists supporting the prisoners. Last week, in what Scotland Yard conceded might be the start of a new I.R.A. campaign, two bombs exploded outside an army reserve center in West London. No one was seriously injured, but police warned Britons to be cautious. In the past, the Christmas season has been a favorite time for I.R.A. explosions and letter-bomb attacks in England...
...office has certainly been done no damage, and the National seems to have escaped the wrath of the Greater London Council. The grant is intact, the public is intrigued, and Scotland Yard is in grateful retreat. Still, if the fight has simmered down, the heat of the debate lingers. Correspondence and controversy continue, and the letters-diverse as they may be-all share a particular passion, not only for points of conscience and politics but for theater. They are like one of Brenton's Romans, who starts to address Julius Caesar, "I speak from the heart . . ." "A disgusting, fashionable...