Word: week
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attitudes have hardened in the Republic in the wake of the Mountbatten assassination, and police there appear to be having some success at curbing the guerrillas' activities. Late in October, Dublin authorities seized a large shipment of contraband U.S.-made arms that included M60 machine guns, and last week they began the trial of two I.R.A. defendants charged with planting the bomb on Mountbatten's boat. Though the two, Francis McGirl, 24, and Thomas McMahon, 31, are pleading innocent, detectives testified that they had traces of gelignite explosive material, sand and paint from the boat on their clothing...
...could have done everything they say I did," he says. Yet he is clearly a top strategist in the Republican movement. Speaking officially as vice president of the Provisional Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Provos, Adams met TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof in Ulster last week in the first interview he has granted to any U.S. publication...
...President of the European Parliament, recalled how the music of gypsy fiddlers had bolstered the morale of the camp's prisoners, until one day the music stopped. She pledged her support for a ten-point list of demands that gypsy leaders presented to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week. It asks, among other things, for an official acknowledgment of the Germans' responsibility for the gypsies' wartime persecution and an end to discrimination in jobs and housing, free access to campsites and a "reeducation program" for prejudiced police. Gypsy activists are also negotiating with the government for a reparations...
...Iran emphasizes American dependence upon what Jimmy Carter calls the "thin line of oil tankers stretching halfway around the earth to one of the most unstable regions in the world." The drive to gain some freedom from OPEC by developing domestic energy sources has never been more pressing. Last week the Senate easily adopted by a vote of 65 to 19 a $20 billion synthetic-fuel program that, among other things, would turn the nation's vast coal deposits into oil and gas. But of all the old and new sources of petroleum now being freshly examined, none...
...began almost a year ago as an attempt to "clear the air" and "restore public confidence." When it ended last week, it was apparent that an unprecedented and excruciating investigation of the California Supreme Court had not succeeded in achieving either goal. The final report by California's commission on judicial performance briefly stated that "no formal charges will be filed against any supreme court justice." It was a less than conclusive judgment and thus left impaired the reputation of a court long considered among the most enlightened in the nation...