Word: twomey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anxieties of winning the primary. Many good men fell by the wayside in the plethora of close intraparty races, and now all the pomp and excitement seems to zero in on Brooke vs. Tsongas, King vs. Hatch, Bellotti vs. Weld, where it once pondered Droney vs. Harshbarger, Twomey vs. Antonelli, and Shannon vs. the World...
Rocco Antonelli is the Democratic candidate. Antonelli scored a big victory in the primary by defeating pre-primary favorite John Twomey and five other aspirants by a scant 4000 votes. The victory was the result of Antonelli's being--you guessed it--first on the ballot due to the departure of aging James Brennan as county treasurer, and also the fact that Antonelli was the only Certified Public Accountant in the entire field of budget watchers...
...Unionists and British Conservatives. Their principal complaint: Rees' policy of holding suspects only on solid evidence and gradually releasing detainees has repopulated the countryside with alleged I.R.A. diehards. As an example of Rees' tolerance, Ian Paisley angrily charged -and the British army admitted-that Seamus Twomey, chief of staff of the I.R.A. Provisionals, was now off their wanted list, quite free to roam at will over embattled Ulster...
...round the country. Instead, a masked man stepped down and trained a gun on the guards as three prisoners bolted forward and scrambled into the cabin of the chopper, which then whirred away. Freed in the daring daytime snatch, which took only a minute, were three top Provisionals: Seamus Twomey, 54, the former Provo chief of staff; Kevin Mallon, 35, a commander of I.R.A. units on the border; and Joe O'Hagan, 50, a top Provo gunrunner...
Heavy Losses. The I.R.A. has now all but lost its command structure. Two weeks ago, the Proves' chief of staff, Seamus Twomey, 54, was picked up by the Irish Republic garda as he slept in a farmhouse across the border. Now only one veteran I.R.A. leader remains outside of jail: David O'Connell, 35, a former schoolteacher and senior political strategist. Because of the heavy losses, the Proves' cumbersome old-style military organization has been abandoned for five-and six-man cells or "active service units," which operate independently and take their orders directly from what remains...