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...think, frankly, that the troubles in the North are largely a creation of television. If we could somehow get every camera and every reporter out of the North, and somehow we could keep them out no matter what horror the Irish Republican Army or the (unionist) Ulster Defense Association staged to get them back, I think violence would decrease by 90 percent," he says. The outlook for a long term settlement is not good, he admits, adding that those who live in the Republic are scared of any hasty unification of the island. "They realize that if they were suddenly...
...would help to bolster the defenses of Libya's neighbors, Tunisia and the Sudan, to "deter further Libyan adventurism." In late July, erroneous reports were published that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was planning to assassinate Gaddafi. This in turn caused a Libyan group called the Free Unionist Officers to threaten a campaign of "physical liquidation" against Americans, including President Reagan...
...tactics by union-busting consultants. Even in traditionally unionized areas--coalmining, for instance--non-union production is on the rise, as owners learn to outlast and out-maneuver their workers. The partisan political power of unions has all but disappeared; Lane Kirkland, as AFL-CIO chief the most important unionist in the country, couldn't even win Democratic support for a tax cut plan genuinely helpful to the working class...
...growing and ominous polarization in Northern Ireland was reflected in last week's local elections. The Rev. Ian Paisley's hard-line Democratic Unionist Party doubled its seats with a show of Protestant militancy, making Paisley Ulster's dominant politician, and candidates backing the I.R.A. hunger strikers fared well among Catholics. The results were no comfort for Thatcher or the Irish Republic's Prime Minister Charles Haughey, who called a national election for June 11, partly to win a fresh mandate for his attempts to mediate with London some solution to what he called the "tragic...
...House of Commons, Home Secretary William Whitelaw reported on a personal visit to Brixton, conducted during a lull in the rioting, and announced that a respected and nonpartisan peer, former Jurist Lord Scarman, would investigate the causes of the violence. Firebrand M.P. Enoch Powell, a Tory turned Ulster Unionist and a longtime opponent of nonwhite immigration to Britain, warned that "you have seen nothing yet." Five M.P.s demanded "a vigorous policy" of subsidized repatriation of nonwhite immigrants. The ruckus spread as far away as New Delhi, where Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on an official visit to India, was confronted...