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...assembly in Northern Ireland last week, a streak of violence marred the occasion. David Wright, 61, was teaching a class of ten-year-olds in the border town of Newry when a man burst through the door, unwrapped a sawed-off shotgun, and shot Wright twice in the chest. The Irish National Liberation Army, a Marxist splinter group of the outlawed pro-Catholic Irish Republican Army, claimed responsibility for the attack. The next day James Molyneaux, leader of the Protestant Official Unionist Party, fled his headquarters in downtown Belfast minutes before a bomb planted by the INLA exploded...
...council's handsome war chest promises to be an object of repeated dispute this term as individuals and groups get their first crack at the spoils collected from $10 term-bill fees. And Smith's responsibilities include chairing the Grants Committee--which will recommend how the council should distribute these coveted funds...
...contributor can give only $1,000 to each. Presidential elections are financed by federal funds, so most of the money is channeled into congressional, state and local races. Since PACs tend to run in packs, a popular candidate, particularly a powerful incumbent, may raise more than half his war chest from these
...years that followed have been kinder than this self-portrait would suggest. He has grown comfortably into his looks. Graying hair softens features that once seemed mismatched. He is tall (a shade over 6 ft.) and broad through the shoulders and chest. His arms are longer than strictly required. He manages to appear both rawboned and delicate at the same time...
Adam Janus, 27, had a minor chest pain last Wednesday morning, so he went out and bought a bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules. About an hour later in his home in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Janus suffered a cardiopulmonary collapse. He was rushed to Northwest Community Hospital, where doctors worked frantically to revive him. "Nothing seemed to help," said Dr. Thomas Kim, chief of the hospital's critical-care unit. "He suffered sudden death without warning. It was most unusual...