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Sifry, Micah L. | March 4, 1996 issue

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This article focuses on the socio-political developments in the world. The deaths of Inan ul-Haq Bashir and John Jefferies, the two newsstand workers killed February 9 by an I.R.A. bomb near London's Canary Wharf surely touched no population so deeply as the people of the vast working-class neighborhoods of Belfast, where everyone has had a loved one or friend maimed or murdered. It was exactly four years ago-two days after the New Hampshire primary, to be precise-that a folksy billionaire went on a popular TV show and offered-his services to the American people, setting off an outpouring of mass action and hope that, for a moment, seemed capable of scrambling the political parties and, upending the old political order.

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WORLD politics; BOMBINGS; PRIMARIES; NEW Hampshire -- Politics & government; NEW Hampshire; LONDON (England); ENGLAND; UNITED States
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