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Steel. In steel-producing regions such as France's Lorraine, Belgium's Charleroi and Liège, West Germany's Saarland, south Wales, northern England, and Scotland, unemployment is sharply higher than national averages. Over the past three years, 61,000 jobs have been lost in the industry, leaving a worried work force...
...Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS) is now planning and raising money for a four week centennial celebration summer tour of England, Scotland, and Wales...
...tandem can trace their names back to the ancient lineage of the MacLeod clan. For centuries the MacLeods have resided on the Isle of Skye, one of those primeval volcanic islands that make up in the Inner Hebrides chain off the northern coast of Scotland. "A MacLeod is always welcome there," says John, whose sister actually visited the Isle of Skye last spring and was cordially welcomed by the dour Highlanders...
...decision drew howls from environmentalists, politicians and some local Orkney residents. Liberal M.P. Jo Grimond, who represents the islands at Westminster, called on Secretary of State for Scotland Bruce Millan to ask if the slaughter was really necessary. The U.N.-backed International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources added its own objection. In Edinburgh, anonymous protesters threw bricks through the glass storefronts of five companies selling hunting equipment...
...Scotland Yard pushed its investigation of the London deaths, suspicion centered on Bulgaria's security service. Both Markov and Kostov had been well-known intellectuals in Bulgaria, with friends in the Politburo. Before defecting in 1969, Markov had won national acclaim as a writer and TV commentator. One of his later plays, The Assassins, dealt with a plot to kill a general in a police state. His defection, and his subsequent BBC and Radio Free Europe broadcasts, had been an embarrassment to the Sofia government and triggered a shake-up in its propaganda establishment. The 1977 defection of Kostov, formerly...