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Minister James Callaghan. Labor's former Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart went so far as to say that "there can be no solution of this problem except in the context of a united Ireland." The Conservative government, however, is in no mood to tinker with the existing setup. Ulster's Unionists, after all, have provided the Tories with at least nine or ten seats in the British Parliament (out of twelve for Northern Ireland) ever since 1921, and the Tories do not want to antagonize them...
...poster, psychedelically colored, shows the Seven Dwarfs, Snow White, Goofy, Minnie Mouse, Cinderella and a naked Tinker Bell, and other Walt Disney characters indulging in what looks like one of the Marquis de Sade's more complicated performances. Meantime, Mickey Mouse is shooting heroin into his arm. In another poster, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Goofy are getting stoned on a water pipe...
...District 1 selection committee may select a third independent for a three-way round-robin playoff or it can sponsor a lone or best-of-three game series between Harvard and UMass. Tinker Connelly, head of the selection committee, was not available for comment last night. Because Harvard is also in the Greater Boston League, Boston University and Boston College, two top independent candidates, cannot be offered...
...free enterprise and cut back on public expenditure, Heath intends to sell some state operations to private companies and seek partnerships with private investors in others. His campaign became apparent in November when he fired Viscount Hall, chairman of the Post Office Corporation. Hall was opposed to attempts to tinker with his 500,000-man empire, especially its enterprising nonpostal activities: computer sharing, a savings bank and a personal-loan service. A former Labor member of Parliament, Hall called his sacking "a monstrous rape of the corporation by force. I feel like a virgin girl who has been thoroughly raped...
...each player. They ran into a little trouble at Logan, though, when FBI agents arrived with dogs to scent shaving cream. They reportedly made quite a haul. A closer investigation of the costumes followed, leading to the discovery of one Peter Pan, one Captain Hook, and 40 Tinker Belles. One of the Quakers apparently intended to masquerade as a football player...