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...such militant organizations as the Loyalist Association of Workers have grown tougher in their statements regarding the need to "destroy for all time this evil in our midst." At week's end, more than 50,000 Protestants staged a mass rally to display their solidarity against a "sellout" by the Heath government. Even though demonstrations are illegal in Northern Ireland these days, Catholics responded with a march of their own through the Andersonstown section of Belfast...
...permitting her name to appear on a slate of delegates pledged to Nixon at the Republican National Convention. Some conservatives, of course, reacted as Nixon may have expected them to. Ohio Congressman John Ashbrook, who is challenging Nixon in the New Hampshire primary, called the Taiwan statement a "sellout" that will lead eventually to a Communist takeover of the island. As he arrived back in the U.S., Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. announced, "I am no longer interested in Richard Nixon," and went off to New Hampshire to aid John Ashbrook's campaign. Buckley's brother James complained...
...relieved to read that Holden has finally teacher - made and a it. But loyal married, servant a of the father, Esatablishment! What a sellout...
...only been aggravated by the inclusion of a new factor; international power politics, as the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. play their respective moves in scenario after scenario, in which the stakes are understandably seen in Israel as being extremely high. But the lesson of Munich, 1938 and the Allied sellout of Czechoslovakia has not been forgotten there, and the Israelis have learned to rely on no one but their own army, which if need be (they say) will fight and defeat even the Russians. In the final analysis, there is no alternative...
Stake in the Future. Fear of a Westminster "sellout" now dominates the Protestant community, despite assurances by Faulkner and Heath. MacStiofáin contends that these fears are unjustified: "We have no interest in treating the Protestants harshly. We don't want them to leave the North. We want them to accept that they are Irish, that they have a stake in the future of this country...