Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those stirring words uttered last week by the Rev. Ian Paisley, 54, the durable firebrand of Ulster politics, had a strangely familiar ring, it was not accidental. Precisely the same call to arms had been issued 69 years earlier by Ulster Hero Sir Edward Carson, when he rallied fellow Protestants fighting to keep their ties to the United Kingdom rather than accept Irish home rule and Catholic domination. Paisley, too, was seeking to stir support among Ulster's 1 million Protestants against any conceivable sellout to the Catholics, and he had an additional motive. With local elections scheduled...
Paisley's political theatrics occurred as terrorist attacks were continuing. Following a near fatal Protestant assassination at tempt against Catholic Activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband, and the I.R.A. killings of Protestant No table Sir Norman Stronge and his son, an I.R.A. commando scuttled a British col lier off the coast. At the Maze Prison out side Belfast, meanwhile, I.R.A. prisoners announced another hunger strike to begin March 1, similar to the 53-day protest last year that nearly cost the lives of seven prisoners before it was called...
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, Clark was asked if he could name the Prime Minister of South Africa. Said he: "No sir, I cannot." Who is the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe? Said Clark: "It would be a guess." Questioned about U.S.-Taiwan relations, Israeli settlements on the West Bank and U.S. policy on nuclear nonproliferation, Clark kept answering: "I do not have a personal view...
...Thatcher was being pilloried for what Labor's Denis Healey, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, called her "punk monetarism." Said Eric Varley, Labor's spokesman on employment matters: "The consequences of this doctrinaire obsession are still wreaking havoc in every part of the country." Thatcher's own Industry Secretary, Sir Keith Joseph, glumly admitted that his government "lost the first year," and the Economist magazine, which had supported Thatcher's election, characterized her economic experiment as "a prescription for electoral suicide...
Even former Prime Minister Sir Harold Wilson joined the fight, dismissing the Wembley vote as "a shambles" and heaping scorn on Benn's devotion to "the divine right of shop stewards...