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Hardly, but her timing might have been better. The day before her arrival marked the sixth anniversary of the start of internment, the unwise British detention plan that summarily imprisoned 2,000 suspected terrorists and thus served to heighten sectarian tensions in Ulster before the program was abandoned in 1975. The day after Elizabeth's departure was another big date in Ulster's calendar of conflict: the anniversary of the closing of Londonderry's gates in 1689 to prevent the forces of James II, the Catholic King of England, from entering. It was rioting touched...
...week he had told his followers, "I am only remaining in politics to see this thing through. If it fails, then my voice will no longer be heard." He may be right about that. For once, Northern Irelanders seemed to have demonstrated, even to themselves, that militant sectarian zealots can be defied. An aide to Roy Mason predicted that the strike's failure "could be a watershed" in the province's bloody history...
...scene was sickeningly familiar: an ambush on a twisting mountain road, gunfire and death. This time, however, the victim was not a hapless villager caught in the middle of sectarian strife. He was Kamal Jumblatt, 59, leader of Lebanon's Muslim left and feudal landlord whose power base was rooted among the 150,000 members of the Druze sect. His assassination last week threatened to reopen the bloody civil war in Lebanon, which since November has been living under a "peace" enforced by three divisions of Syrian troops...
...assassination fitted the pattern of Jumblatt's life, as well as that of recent Lebanese history. His father, a Druze chieftain, was assassinated in a sectarian squabble in the 1920s, and his sister was gunned down ten months ago in her Beirut apartment. Jumblatt himself was as paradoxical as his fractured society. Educated in law at the Sorbonne in Paris and at a Roman Catholic university in Beirut, he fought throughout his career to revise the antiquated sectarian political system whereby Lebanese Christians automatically held the balance of power in the government. Although Jumblatt was a Socialist...
Silber's talk is one of a weekly series given by the Community Church of Boston featuring various liberal activists as speakers. The talks follow a short non-sectarian service and the whole ethical experience is topped off with a question-and-answer period and then a hat passing. The lecturer for the following Sunday, Jan. 23, will be Margaret Furnham, the defense attorney for Angela Davis and Ella Ellison, whose topic will be "Rape, Racism, and Criminal Justice." On Jan 30 Maxine Klein, director of the plays "Tania" and "Fan-shen" will give her thoughts on "Political Theater...