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The American ultra-right is back in the shadows, or at least keeping its powder dry. Seeing a massive show of state force with 25,000 National Guard packing Washington DC, and high alerts in state capitals, the far right is picking its fights. Nor will it have the country’s Chief Executive and his enablers minding its back. RHOD SHARP looks to the Wednesday’s Inauguration of President Biden and beyond with The Nation magazine’s National Correspondent JOHN NICHOLS.
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The Glasgow Herald / April 9 1985
Michael Powell’s 60 glorious years
Rhoderick Sharp talks to the British director whose Scottish trilogy has been rediscovered by Americans and who has recently made a film with the Russians. On a fiercely rainy March…
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The Glasgow Herald / April 1 1985
Respectable return behind the wheel for Moss at 55
STIRLING MOSS got back behind the wheel of a competition racing car on Saturday for the first time in 23 years. Moss, now 55, had his racing career and most…
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The Glasgow Herald / June 25 1985
Beer and bikes lure kin of Forty-niners
Take two log cabins and a general store. Strike gold. Add a thousand hardy, hungry, money grubbing and just plain ornery fortune seekers and you have the most famous gold…
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The Glasgow Herald / March 5 1985
New factory costs Irish taxpayers £37 per head
IRISH TAXPAYERS may have paid £20m more than they need have to attract a major American electronics company to Ireland. Sources in Dublin say Ireland’s Industrial Development Authority has promised…