Word: mcateer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army, further flamed the tempers of Ulster Catholics, who called it a whitewash. Nothing would shake their conviction that British troops had shot down unarmed civilians without provocation. Bernadette Devlin saw Widgery as "the latest in a long line of British establishment liars." Nationalist Party Leader Eddie McAteer scoffed that "we were lucky he did not also find that the 13 committed suicide." All of which meant that the British government once again faced a crisis of confidence in its relations with Ulster's half million angry Catholics...
...brochure was traced to students in a course in consumerism and environmental activism at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. Their teacher: one of Ralph Nader's Raiders, Lawyer J. Davitt McAteer, 26. The critics, who quickly zeroed in, could not deny the brochure's accuracy on cost of living. But, as a Honolulu paper pointed out, the state does seem ready to enforce strong water-quality laws and establish new standards governing air pollution and noise. McAteer admitted the brochure violated Nader's principle of presenting both sides of an issue...