Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Militant Protestants paraded with placards urging the state to CONTINUE DEVLIN'S UPBRINGING IN THE ARMAGH GAOL. Partisan Catholics punctuated her defense in Londonderry's squat Victorian courthouse with foot stomping and applause. Moderates on both sides feared a new outburst of violence when the trial of Bernadette...
That was true partly because the trial's outcome was not clear-cut. Charged on 13 counts, including assault and inciting to riot during the summer eruptions, an uncharacteristically subdued Bernadette denied everything-save for having organized a defense brigade and having thrown "one stone." Throughout the trial, she...
Another factor in Londonderry's continued calm was the presence of 6,000 British troops. Most important, however, is that the Catholic minority, outnumbered 2,000,000 to 1,000,000, is well on the way to winning most of its civil rights goals-at least on paper. A...
Normalcy was all the more noteworthy for the trial's timing. It started just before Lundy Day, named for the Londonderry governor who in 1689 ordered the city's gates opened to the Catholic army of James II. Lundy's command was defied by a group of...
THE top priority of U.S. fighting men in South Viet Nam is no longer killing the enemy. It is teaching and equipping South Viet Nam's army to do so. Since last June, when President Nixon announced his plan to turn the burden of the ground fighting over to...