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...purpose. "No one man 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...
...deliberations, reports TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof, the commission quickly settled on a short list of candidates. The most controversial was Canada's forceful Anglican Primate Edward Scott, 60, who is also chairman of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. But in the end, the commission decided Anglicanism was not ready to pick a non-Briton and thus "do a Wojtyla" (that is, echo Rome's election of a non-Italian as Pope...
...after two misses, the captain got off his shot when one fin surfaced directly in front of the catch boat. It was a painfully slow demise for the beast; to minimize the danger to the protesters, Eythorsson had removed the explosive cap from the harpoon. Cabled TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof of the grisly action: "The creature's struggle was unusually harrowing. Without the explosive, the fin lingered on until the captain fired a second 'cold' harpoon into it and then, at last, an explosive harpoon. It took 16 minutes to end the whale's agony...
When Angelo wanted to follow Prime Minister James Callaghan's Labor Party campaign for a while, she would trade places with TIME's men on the bus: veteran Correspondents Erik Amfitheatrof, Frank Melville and Arthur White. Amfitheatrof, who covered the 1976 Italian general election as a TIME correspondent in Rome and has reported on the sometimes unruly politics of Africa and the Mediterranean, was delighted to find this campaign unmistakably British. He recalls watching Callaghan at a whistlestop, a cup of tea in his hand, plunging into the crowd and politely imploring them: "Forgive me for having...
...assess the impact of the front, TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof visited Bradford, a sooty Yorkshire mill town that once was known as "the wool center of the world." Bradford is typical of declining industrial cities with a growing race problem, and pro-front sentiment is strong. Amfitheatrofs report...