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Ulster's Protestant hard-liners were not appeased. Former Home Affairs Minister William Craig condemned the Prime Minister's moves as a "useless bluff, designed to prevent the restoration of an effective security force." Faulkner came under equally bitter criticism from Ulster's Catholics (who constitute about one-third of Northern Ireland's 1,500,000 population). He announced that 219 of the Catholics who were interned without trial last month would be held indefinitely, while a mere 14 would be released. "Detention," declared the independent Belfast Telegraph, "has driven a massive wedge between...
...York Giants. For decades the very name was one for opponents in two sports to reckon with, a source of joy (and sometimes sorrow) to New York's football and baseball fans. Who can forget the little miracle of Coogan's Bluff, when Bobby Thomson's ninth-inning home run in the old Polo Grounds beat the hated Dodgers in a 1951 play-off and won for the baseball Giants an impossible pennant? Or the frigid December day in 1934 when the football Giants, playing on a frozen field, switched from spikes to sneakers at halftime...
...Harold Pinter), who is to Pinter's plays what Clara Schumann was to her husband's music, plays the woman with a mixture of hauteur and girlish romanticism. She makes the character both menacing and slightly spurious. Colin Blakely is blessedly funny and touching as the bluff husband whose male pride is aroused but baffled. He is apparently victorious but eventually frustrated. In the role of the mysterious wife, Dorothy Tutin catches the unconscious cruelty of an indifference that can take anything but give nothing...
...Bluff and Reality. Such moves are only a recognition of reality. The Nixon Administration last week may have been indulging in inept bluffing, but the fact that so drastic an idea as a special U.S. tariff on Japanese goods could even be discussed illustrates how dangerously monetary imbalances are fanning political bitterness and protectionist sentiment round the world. The undervaluation of the yen is now by far the greatest of those imbalances. The sooner a revaluation of the yen comes, and the bigger it is, the better...
There may be a touch of bluff in Mayor Lindsay's course of action, but precious little. "This is for real," said the mayor. "The problem is much worse than it's ever been before." His budget director, Edward Hamilton, backed him up. In the first place, Hamilton points out, state and federal aid to the city will not increase as much as in the past; also, the city has just about run out of items...