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...London and Washington, efforts were made to pre-empt terrorist attacks on the ground. British police launched a massive search after Scotland Yard reported that it had uncovered a plot by the outlawed Irish Republican Army to place bombs at twelve English seaside resorts. Police defused one device in a crowded hotel just 100 yds. from Buckingham Palace in London. Sixteen suspects were detained. At the U.S. State Department, officials announced plans to renovate or relocate almost half of its 262 embassies and consulates, citing vulnerability to espionage and terrorist attack as the reason for the new program, which...
...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...
...with the group to review progress on implementing some of the measures that have already been agreed to, including a voluntary ban by clubs on the sale of alcohol in stadiums. A similar measure has led to a sharp decrease in violent episodes over the past five years in Scotland, where soccer brawls were once a favorite pastime. Faced with declining attendance and rising demands for expensive security precautions, team owners in England have so far been unwilling to give up the revenues from drink concessions. Now that the teams are banned from European competition, their losses are certain...
After graduating today, Rosegrant will travel to Scotland. France and Greece using her $6500 Trustman Fellowship to study the effects of poverty on women in those countries...
...Irish, counter to the stereotype, are the European community's most abstemious tipplers, consuming less than 2 gal. of alcohol per capita annually. In Britain, where the corner pub is a second home and a pint is considered a birthright, 95% of all adults in England, Scotland and Wales are drinkers. Beer consumption is down slightly, however, due to high unemployment and increased taxes on alcohol. In West Germany, beer intake has tripled over three decades, to 9 billion liters annually. "We have a saying," says an official of the National Health Ministry in Bonn, "that...