St Patrick’s Day parade sparks IRA row in New York
The 1981 St Patrick’s Day parade in New York ignites conflict as grand marshal choice Michael Flannery, an IRA ally, provokes official backlash from Garret FitzGerald’s government and Irish leaders. Moynihan Carey and O’Neill back the parade while others boycott. Cardinal Cooke seeks neutrality amid calls for reconciliation.
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Washington
Ireland
Elizabeth I
Provisional
Irish Republican Army
Four Horsemen
New York
Hugh Carey
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Edward M. Kennedy
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
St. Patrick's Day
Ulster
William Butler Yeats
Friends of Ireland
Garret FitzGerald
Order of Hibernians
Michael
Flannery
Irish Northern Aid Committee
Noraid
FitzGerald
Moynihan
Carey
Maria Cuomo
Alfonso D'Amato
Edward J. Koch
Mario Biaggi
Fifth Avenue
St. Patrick
Tadhg O'Sullivan
Terence Cardinal Cooke
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Northern Ireland
Downing St
Nun defies archbishop in Michigan welfare post
A Michigan nun, Sister Mansour, serving as welfare director despite Archbishop Szoka's order to resign over Medicaid funded abortions. She argues for moral restraint yet urges changing attitudes on abortion within a pluralistic society. The piece urges broader view of welfare and disability rights, contrasting Reagan's stance on handicapped infants with current food aid policies.
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Washington
Michigan
Agnes Mary Mansour
Edmund Szoka
Detroit
Department of Social Services
Sister Mansour
Mercy College
Servants of God
Bishop
William Milliken
James Blanchard
Reagan
National Association of Evangelicals
Health and Human Services Department
United States
Cleveland
Ohio
Metro General Hospital
Reagan Administration
Illinois pays tab so lawmen fly for extradition saga
A Chicago story questions Illinois Corrections Depart ment use of a private state plane to return Randy Veleff from Texas. Officials say the trip allowed questioning in Texas while critics call it wasteful spending. The Dallas 10 Kilometer Race figures in the tale, with Lane and Warden DeRobertis cited as participants. The piece ends by noting the state foots the bill.
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Chicago
New Jersey
Randy Veleff
Ilinois
Veleff
Illinois
Texas
Stateville Correctional Center
Joliet
Randy
Stateville
Corrections Department
Dallas
Michael Lane
North Carolina
Lane
Dallas Symphony
Richard DeRobertis
Minois
Soviets lose clout at summits
New Delhi article contrasts the Belgrade 1961 nonaligned summit with the current gathering, noting the decline of Soviet influence. It highlights Nehru’s legacy, Khrushchev’s 50 megaton test, Castro’s retreat from Russia as the nonaligned stance moderates, and the shifting balance with Afghanistan and Cambodia fueling debate among about 101 member states.
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New Delhi
India
Belgrade
Defense
Caspar Weinberger
Yugoslavia
Tito
Egypt
Nasser
Nehru
Indonesia
Sukarno
Cyprus
Makarios
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Ghana
Nkrumah
Cuba
Fidel Castro
United States
John Foster Dulles
Nikita Khrushchev
Indira Gandhi
Afghanistan
Cambodia
Vietnam
Flora Lewis on Moscow’s waning pull at Havana summit 1979
Flora Lewis argues Soviet communism no longer fascinates revolutionaries, and many wars since 1945 occurred among Third World nations. Colonialism fades while feudalism lingers, and new leaders face daily living troubles. Mutual benefit and productive capital replace coercive concessions as oil markets collapse. United States, with its pluralistic tradition, could view this shift as opportunity rather than threat.
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Moscow
Havana
Korea
Vietnam
Afghanistan
OPEC
Belgrade
United States
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