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Faulkner, who in pugnacious moments looks rather like a bull terrier, made an early reputation in Unionist politics as a right-winger, a staunch Orangeman and a fierce critic of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a strong and capable Home Affairs Minister, in charge of security, at the height of the I.R.A.'s 1956-62 border campaign against Northern Ireland. As Prime Minister, he offered Catholic M.P.s a larger share of parliamentary power, and named the first Catholic minister to a Unionist government in the province's history...
That made the story a particularly wrenching drama. A Czech government official promised trouble if the children were not awarded to the mother. The staunch Yucaipa community felt strongly that they should stay. Three weeks ago, when California State Superior Court Judge Don Turner started hearing testimony in the case, angry Czech refugees demonstrated outside the court, demanding that the children be allowed to remain in the U.S. The townspeople had held rallies, raffles, recycling drives and Tupperware parties to raise $3,800 to pay for the expensive legal maneuvers they hoped would keep the children here...
...Yisrael" (Hear, O Israel). The eight-page offset sheet was started in 1970 by Reform Rabbi Eugene Borowitz, professor of Jewish thought at the Manhattan campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Scholar Borowitz, 48, who edits Sh'ma in his home, is himself a staunch but critical supporter of Israel and an advocate of more rigorous theological interpretations of modern issues, but he uses his paper as a forum for argument rather than a platform. His list of contributing editors is a Who's Who cross section of North American Judaism, including such names...
Recognition by Britain, even though it had been expected for some time, was cause for jubilation in Dacca. Smiling, Mujib told newsmen that his country would join the Commonwealth. The alliance is expected to serve as a balance to Bangladesh ties with the Soviet Union, a staunch ally of the Bengalis in the nine-month civil war with West Pakistan...
...Ireland, a solution to its problems within the present demographic framework seems impossible. Why not try a population transfer of either Catholics or Protestants? The transfer of Catholics to the Irish Republic would leave a small but more homogeneous and justifiable British substate in Ulster. Alternatively, the transfer of staunch Protestant Unionists to Britain would make possible a united Ireland. The difficulties would be small compared with those that have plagued Northern Ireland for the past 50 years...