Word: winging
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...Catholic parties in a new Northern Ireland assembly but also to work together with ministers and politicians from Dublin in new cross-border government bodies, which look suspiciously like the first steps toward a united Ireland. And politicians from Catholic nationalist and republican parties--including Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, which for years has been fighting for a united Ireland, proclaiming BRITS OUT NOW--signed a document that says that the political status of the province could be changed only by a majority vote of the people of the North. By anyone's count, that...
...present-day abbey consists of hewn-stone buildings with red tiled roofs, pointed arches and stained-glass windows, well-tended gardens, courtyards and sprawling palm trees. There are modern touches: a fax in the office, solar panels in the garden. The wing in which visitors stay was renovated within the decade...
...rooms in the three-story "hotel" wing are identical--clean, simple and separate from the monks' cells. There is no telephone, carpet or television set, just a small wooden cross above a pine writing desk, a washbasin, a curtained closet, a small bed and a reading light. The bathrooms are at the end of the corridors. Guests are asked to keep their rooms and the bathrooms clean and to help with the dishes after each meal...
According to both Israeli and Palestinian sources, the West Bank branch of Izzaddin al-Kassam, the military wing of Hamas, has recently gone independent from the group's leadership in the Gaza Strip. Says a Hamas guerrilla in the West Bank: "We are no longer waiting for the orders to come from Gaza." Izzaddin al-Kassam's West Bank commander, ADEL AWEDALLAH, is said to be hungry for action. "He knows his days are numbered," says a ranking Israeli army officer. "We're after him, the Palestinians are after him, and he's trying to do everything he can before...
...Thatcher was, and is, notoriously lucky. Her case is awesome testimony to the importance of sheer chance in history. In 1975 she challenged Edward Heath for the Tory leadership simply because the candidate of the party's right wing abandoned the contest at the last minute. Thatcher stepped into the breach. When she went into Heath's office to tell him her decision, he did not even bother to look up. "You'll lose," he said. "Good...