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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...
...Gleneagles, Scotland, NATO defense ministers endorsed the doctrine of "flexible response" and the NATO plan for deployment of the theater nuclear weapons. But implicitly recognizing the growing power of the neutralists, the NATO ministers' communiqué also supported a plan favored by the peace movement, the so-called "zero solution" under which both Soviet and American theater nuclear weapons would be removed...
...named Wallace Shawn sits down to dinner with a lean, overarticulate theatrical director named André Gregory. The friends have not seen one another for some years mostly because Gregory has spent that time searching the world for transcendental experiences. He has been to adult play groups in Poland, Scotland, Tibet, the Sahara-and Montauk Point. It is a measure of what is wrong with this movie (and maybe with the culture of the '80s) that neither man sees anything funny about the intrusion of that last prosaic place on this otherwise exotic list. Nichols and May would have...
...conference opened in Perth, in the heart of Scotland, rolled south to Bradford in England's industrial north and wound up in London. Along the way, party members quaffed wine, bellowed out songs and welcomed five more defecting Labor M.P.s to the fold. The S.D.P.'s new total of 21 M.P.s means that it will be the third largest party (surpassing the Liberals' eleven seats) when the new session of Parliament begins next month...
...that he wants to trade for a medieval manuscript. Quaritch's notices tracings of University College Library stamps and alerts the library. About the same time, librarians checking on the volumes discover that padlocks on the appropriate cabinets have been changed. All told, about 267 books are missing. Scotland Yard and Interpol are called...