Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...I.R.A.-I ran away!" With that derisive taunt, British troops arriving in Ulster ten years ago dismissed the threat posed by the remnants of the old Irish Republican Army. Their laughter died quickly after the birth of the Provisional I.R.A., whose cold-eyed gunmen began ambushing Protestant loyalist civilians, policemen and the newly arrived soldiers with ruthless efficiency. But a decade of Provo bloodshed, climaxed by the wanton murder of Lord Mountbatten in Southern Ireland last August, has eroded much of the I.R.A.'s support in the largely Catholic Republic. "They started well but now they're Communists...
...Nicaragua, meanwhile, the three-month-old revolutionary government was also under fire. The new regime had released thousands of Somoza's loyal national guardsmen from custody and permitted many of his henchmen to take refuge in the embassies of countries that supported the Somoza dynasty. These unrepentant loyalists have attempted a counterrevolution, with political assassinations and minor acts of sabotage. Marxist Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez is determined to crush this threat, even if doing so belies the new regime's promise of a "generous revolution." Last week the decomposed body of Somoza Loyalist Pablo Emilio Salazar...
...triggered by internal problems-specifically, a mutiny of his troops. The crack Simba (Lion) Battalion rebelled in protest against the country's sagging economy. In early October, dissident troops ambushed Amin at the presidential lodge in Kampala, but he escaped with his family in a helicopter. Efforts by loyalist troops to smash the rebellion, which had its strongest support in southern Uganda, spilled over into Tanzania, where anti-Amin exiles joined the fighting. Big Daddy's attempt to disguise the true nature of these clashes, and to divert attention from Uganda's domestic troubles...
Neil Young has spent over a decade writing finely shaded, sometimes frighteningly intense personal music that dances right around the edges of Dylan's long shadow. Young, a firm Dylan loyalist, also has a new record out, Comes a Time, and last week he completed his most extensive tour in years. Dylan continues on a three-month barnstorming blitz, playing St. Paul in his home territory of Minnesota this week. Earlier both converged on New York City at the same time. Young played to wildly partisan crowds, while Dylan kept his audience at arm's length and flummoxed...
...unfolds like a collection of vintage newsreels. With many members of his generation, the young poet rushed into ideology. He heralded "the birth of a new world" through Marxism, championed the cause of Republican Spain and did his best to see no evil hi the side he supported. If loyalist troops were sometimes brutal, Spender had an answer: "It seems to me that atrocities are a measure of the ignorance and suffering imposed on the isolated people who commit them, and thus they are only a by-product of the monstrous Spanish system which is now being abolished...