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...bloodiest attack since last November, when a bombing at a war memorial ceremony in Enniskillen claimed the lives of eleven civilians. In Lisburn, I.R.A. operatives evidently managed to attach a bomb to the van's chassis while it was parked, unattended, during the races. In London, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called the attack a "terrible atrocity" but rejected calls in Parliament for the internment without trial of suspected terrorists in Ulster. In the war against I.R.A. terrorism, said Tom King, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, "there is no shortcut...
...preserve it but a more immediate challenge: how to ensure the stability and prosperity of the global economy. The President will travel to Toronto on June 19 for the annual economic summit with the other leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized nations: Britain's Margaret Thatcher, Japan's Noboru Takeshita, West Germany's Helmut Kohl, France's Franois Mitterrand, Italy's Ciriaco De Mita and the host, Canada's Brian Mulroney. Inside the Metro Toronto Convention Center, the leaders will discuss such major problems as trade imbalances, protectionism and Third World debt...
...Labor Party has lost three consecutive elections to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives, and one big reason is the opposition party's stand on defense issues. Surveys show that Labor's promise to give up Britain's nuclear deterrent unilaterally is unpopular with nearly 70% of Britons, and even gets a thumbs-down from a majority of Labor supporters. Last week Party Leader Neil Kinnock announced a change of heart. British disarmament, he said, should be accompanied by Soviet concessions...
...People who had power in the industry tried to make skating a Little League sport. But kids want skating to be their sport, not their parents'." Skateboarding languished until it burnished its outlaw image anew. Now "skaters are the punk rockers of the sport set," says Thrasher Editor Kevin Thatcher. But aside from a taste for heavy metal-tinged rock, this is a matter more of appearance than substance...
Powell believes the new boom in boards occurred because everyone recognizes the "legitimacy of the street terrain." Longtime Skateboarder Thatcher speaks to a deeper appeal: "The skater doesn't have to rely on anybody or anything to do his sport. He doesn't need a wave, a ski slope or a team, and he likes it that way." The police, of course, do not, and the buoyant banditry of skateboarding can lead the law a merry chase. "To skateboard you've got to be aggressive, and you've got to be a little crazy," says Roger Mullen, 17, of Ventura...