Magill - World
Live Aid - Like Clockwork
The Live Aid operation has raised over £30 million for famine relief so far, and money is still pouring in. Almost £5 million of this has been raised in Ireland alone. An unsophisticated but tightly organised approach to spending the money is producing remarkably successful results. Michael Dwyer reports.
Sweet William, Bug Maggie and the Ascot Gavotte
IN THE LAST FORTNIGHT, ONE BEgan to feel very like the pussycat ... who came to London to see the Queen. They work the poor woman very hard at this time of the year. Almost everywhere you ,go, there she is, surrounded by bearskins, and royal buglers; riding sidesaddle on a lively horse, or waving wearily from a royal coach. The Queen is big tourist business, and now that Mrs Thatcher's Britain has rediscovered society and The Season, the Queen is the focus of an energetic new Royalism. From Olivia O'Leary in London
Edward Kennedy: The Last Hurrah
Staff reporter Gene Kerrigan has been through New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Illinois and New York on the campaign trail of Senator Edward Kennedy.
Iran in Flames
Huge oil revenues have destabilised one of the world's most corrupt and repressive regimes, as communists and clerics have joined to topple the Shah.
Is the Senate the Summit of Teddy Kennedy's ambitions?
It's a state convention of trade unionists in Massachusetts. The keynote speaker is Senator Edward Kennedy. He leaps to the rostrum and delivers a rousing populist oration, not at all in the idiom of these conservative times. He concludes with an impassioned plea for the cause he has made his own: national health insurance.
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