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...found murdered in Ireland on April 4. The I.R.A. denied any involvement, but TIME's Jan. 10, 1972, cover story explained how the group's brutality could be turned on its own people: "On the red brick walls surrounding vacant lots, the children of Belfast?perhaps the most tragic victims of the war?have scrawled afresh the old slogans of idealism and hatred: 'Up the I.R.A.' and 'Informers Beware' ... British command announced that children playing with toy guns run the risk of being shot. The reason for the statement was that children in Ulster these days sometimes carry real guns...
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...this semester to spend it at home. Under the auspices of the Harvard University Native American Program, some 25 undergraduates and graduates gathered over dinner last night to mourn Meat’s death. Yesterday, Lussier became the bearer of news that she called “literally tragic.” In the morning, she got a call from her father, who is a friend of Meat’s extended family. They belong to the same tribe, the Ojibwe. Lussier’s father told her that Meat had died. “I asked...
...over a vast field of sun-bleached antelope carcasses as a pair of marauding vultures picks them clean of their meat. During these moments, Lu draws us close to the mountain patrol, sharing in not only their disgust, but also their terror. It’s all the more tragic, then, when Lu argues the poacher’s case with nearly equal force: when Ritai instructs his men to sell some of the confiscated antelope pelts to pay his group’s medical bills, we empathize with the desperation that drives men to compromise their values...
...nuclear enrichtment program and talk of possible U.S. military action in Iran is running high in Washington, the attack appears to be a calculated warning to the U.S. that however bad things are now in Iraq, they could get even worse. And as has so often happened in their tragic history, the Kurds could be the first, though certainly not the only, casualty...