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...Bella, in the back seat of his red Volkswagen to take her to the park for a run. As he drove off, a bomb planted under the car exploded; Pringle survived but one of his legs was amputated. On a visit to the hospitalized Chelsea victims, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher condemned the attacks as "cold, callous, brutal and subhuman...
Last month the firm stand of Thatcher's government thwarted the seven-month hunger strike in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland by men seeking the status of political prisoners. Scotland Yard believes that now an I.R.A. gang of about half a dozen members has come to London to begin yet another bombing campaign. The hope of the I.R.A. is that bombings in Britain will keep their cause in the headlines and force the government to pull its soldiers out of Ulster. That scheme seems to have little chance of succeeding: When the I.R.A. tried similar tactics...
...republic. FitzGerald would like to see the establishment of an Anglo-Irish council, including Protestant and Catholic representatives from Ulster and members of the British and Irish parliaments, to promote better relations between Britain, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. This week FitzGerald is scheduled to meet with Thatcher at 10 Downing Street. As they talk, Londoners will be nervously keeping an eye out for the parcel that could bring sudden death...
...public support helpful in rejecting demands by the left wing of his Social Democratic Party that he renege on the 1979 NATO decision to base new U.S. medium-range missiles in Western Europe. In Britain, where anti-NATO feelings thrive in the Labor opposition, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government welcomes Mitterrand's position. "Such a firm stand is very helpful coming from a Socialist," a top official explains. "It enables us to point out to the left wing of the Labor Party that not all Socialists go along with unilateral disarmament...
...fares on bank forecasts that the pound would be worth an average of approximately $2.25 in U.S. dollars this year. In fact, the decline of sterling has by now pushed the rate to about $1.82 to the pound, forcing his costs up sharply. Says he: "The Reagan and Thatcher governments have screwed up the world's monetary system and I am in the middle...