Word: traitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faced with a showdown, the Social Democratic leaders decided on an unusual tactic. Fearing defections from their own ranks, they ordered their Deputies to refrain from voting. Thus anyone who approached the voting urn from the Social Democratic benches would be presumed to be a traitor to his party. However, Vice Chancellor...
...Hampshire as much as he wants. Meanwhile the bank holdups are successful, until a girlfriend of one of the robbers turns them in to the State Police. They're captured. One of them ca favorite of the bosses in Providence) is killed. Who is the prime suspect as the traitor? Eddie, of course, who provided the guns, who needed something to show when he went up for sentencing. A contract comes up from Providence...
...their 2-to-1 popular majority to discriminate against the Catholic minority for more than half a century. One Unionist M.P. summed up the general feeling at Stormont's emotional last session by quoting from Kipling's 1912 poem Ulster: "Before an Empire's eyes/ The traitor claims his price./ What need of further lies?/ We are the sacrifice...
...three bishops involved, and declared that they were no longer loyal to him. Gennadios had wisely stayed in the bishopric of Kitium in Limassol as a guest of Bishop Anthimos. But there too, crowds beat at the doors of Anthimos' residence, screaming "Out with the traitor bishops!" In Nicosia, meanwhile, 100,000 people gathered outside Makarios' episcopal palace (he also has a presidential palace) to roar the archbishop's name and praises; it was the biggest such assembly since Makarios returned to Cyprus from British-imposed exile in 1959, and His Beatitude was suitably moved. "I will...
When Roy Jenkins, the urbane and gifted deputy leader of the Labor Party, broke ranks to vote in favor of Britain's entry into the Common Market three weeks ago. a chant of "Traitor! Traitor!" rose from the backbenches. Jenkins, 51, knew that he was risking his political future by defying Labor's antiMarket line (as did 68 other members of the party), but he defended his stand on the grounds of "honesty and consistency." He was Chancellor of the Exchequer when Harold Wilson's Labor government attempted to join the Market in 1969, and even though...