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...news agency reported earlier that an Israeli, monitoring radio messages, had learned that commandos had landed in Mogadishu. Bonn asked that the report be withheld. Luckily, the hijackers were obviously unaware...
...Irish Republican Army (IRA), the conflict in Ulster is often portrayed only as a struggle of a Catholic minority against an oppressive Protestant majority backed by the British government. In reality the struggle is that of a "double minority." It is both the Catholic attempt to secure long-withheld civil rights; in Ulster, and the Protestant desire to insure British identity in the face of the Catholic majority to the south...
...players against management to his own advantage. "These other guys didn't choose to take Billy on," said Steinbrenner. "I felt I could change him." As a start, he got Martin to accept a conditional contract stating that if the manager caused any dissension, his salary could be withheld, a contract Martin soon sharply resented. From the very beginning of the year, Steinbrenner hovered over his manager, offering unwanted advice, badgering him. Their confrontations were often stormy. One night after a difficult Yankee loss, Steinbrenner called the locker room to pass on some advice to his smoldering manager...
...sophomore student, who requested that his name be withheld, said, "When I walked into the entry door there were two Blacks looking at the list of residents and they asked me about a name I didn't know...
...bank overdrafts to finance his campaign, former U.S. Attorney Stokes called a press conference to complain that he had given the FBI a full report. The report, he said, should have been forwarded by Carter's transition team to the Ribicoff committee. "Some members of the Carter Administration withheld this information," said Stokes. Stung by accusations that he had prematurely closed the case, Stokes was clearly eager to shift the blame. "Why should I burn," he asked rhetorically, "while this Administration fiddles...