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Against that backdrop in Ulster, Heath prepared in London to unveil his long-awaited new policy for Northern Ireland. Some proposals had already been announced: "an active, permanent and guaranteed place" for Ulster's Catholics in the government of Northern Ireland, massive economic aid to ease unemployment, and a gradual phasing down of the internment of I.R.A. suspects without trial, which had, more than anything else, infuriated the Catholic community. What had not been known was that Heath had also decided to place the police-up till now responsible to Stormont-as well as the army directly under Westminster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Britain Gambles on Peace | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...stereotype. Here is the high priest of art who refined himself right out of life, the superfastidious intellect whom Theodore Roosevelt called an "effete" and "miserable little snob," the too-exquisite stylist whom H.G. Wells described as a "leviathan retrieving pebbles." Edel's formidable accomplishment has been to unveil the second James in all his surprising robustness and to give this figure equal space on the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The End of an Epic | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

Senator George McGovern (D.S.D.) took his campaign to the lower-middle class and its pocketbooks Monday when he came to Dorchester to unveil his plans for a cut in property taxes...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Govern Woos Middle America in Dorchester | 2/2/1972 | See Source »

...Houton home, one newsman asked McGovern if he was seeking to upstage President Nixon, who is about to unveil a national value-added tax. "I think Nixon's value-added tax is a disaster," he shot back. "It's another name for a sales tax, which is the most regressive of taxes...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Govern Woos Middle America in Dorchester | 2/2/1972 | See Source »

That Hanoi has only once publicly confirmed its private statements--i.e., to the New York Times on July 6--should convince the reader that behind its public rhetoric at Paris. Hanoi has another policy in cold-storage. The North Vietnamese will unveil that policy when they, not Nixon, are ready...

Author: By Jim Blum, | Title: Reality and Appearance | 1/13/1972 | See Source »

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