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:re is peEMsLONDON — Her title is Queen
juncil men pother Elizabeth, but her affection-
ronvincefl ate nickname from one end of this
eed asystapand kingdom to the other is
liamson,afiOueen Mum.’ She is the most
e toabide kfed woman in Britain.
ECyril Smith, the biggest (in girth)
he choiceelfcn in Parliament, suggested re-
leycouldffftntly, in her presence in the House
ever going af Commons, that her 80th birthday,
et a referMpig. 4, should be a national holiday.
11 do not ho’The idea ignited an instant re
pram. sponse, though Prime Minister Mar-
rises: Iflmret Thatcher cooled it slightly with
expected! A( sympathetic suggestion that
ises, woulc per haps it would be more in keeping
lortation I with the way the nation thinks of the
? queen mother to have local celebra-
re wouldItions instead.
WillamsotjlfOne thing seems certain — it will
transit she the most warmly observed royal
Transit [occasion of the year.
he British have a natural rever-
rady Bur.:
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iposed syst^
nd down’I
ence for age, but that isn’t the only
reason that her people will honor her
birthday. The more they have
learned of her, the more her former
subjects have come to realize what a
bargain the throne got when the shy,
stammering Duke of York persuaded
her to marry him in 1923.
A biographer quoted her as saying:
“It was my duty to marry Bertie. I
fell in love with him afterwards. ”
A lucky thing for everyone. When
King Edward VIII abdicated in 1936
for love of an American divorcee, and
his terrified brother realized he
would have to ascend the throne,
there she was at his side, solid as the
granite of her native hills. She
coaxed him to take therapy for his
stammer, helped carry the load of
royal obligations, and sadly prepared
her daughter, Elizabeth, to be a
queen.
The queen mother is energetic,
enthusiastic, carries out more than
100 public engagements a year,
almost always wearing a large hat,
pearls and long gloves.
Besides fishing and gardening, the
queen mother has a stable of stee
plechase horses. Her favorite read
ing is Sporting Life. She goes to the
races frequently and trainers recog
nize her knowledge of the sport.
The media like the small, round
lady whose bright blue eyes have
seen, sometimes through tears, so
much of the British history of this
century. She is always willing to pose
and, unique for the royal family, will
let photographers re-stage a shot
they missed.
History will list as her greatest
achievement helping restore the
monarchy after the abdication. If her
grandson, Prince Charles, is a great
king, she will deserve some of the
credit. He adores her.
United Press International
LONDON — Amnesty Interna
tional said Wednesday Paraguayan
troops and police killed more than 20
people and arrested several hundred
others to keep peasants from orga
nizing to improve their conditions.
The non-governmental human
rights organization said the crack
down by the Latin American govern
ment “appears to be a renewal of
repressive campaigns which have
followed attempts by the peasants to
organize themselves.”
An Amnesty statement said the
killings came “in raids in several
parts of the country ” by an estimated
5,000 soldiers, militia and govern
ment supporters.
“Some 300 peasants have been
taken to a notorious police torture
center called Tnvestigaciones’ in the
capital of Asuncion,” it said. “Among
the prisoners is a wounded 12-year-
old girl.”
It said “an unknown number” of
other peasants also was being held in
Villarrica and Paraguari.
“Among those killed or impris
oned were peasant leaders who had
RA bomb hurts
six British troops
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pem M^jBELFAST, Northern Ireland — A
■mb detonated by remote control
JeStroyed a British Army armored
B Wednesday, critically wounding
vo stops MB soldier and injuring five others.
1 be noc&'The outlawed Irish Republican
the tranSBny claimed responsibility for the
slow dowBck, which was a virtual duplicate
i compaayil bombing three weeks ago that
n is up tilled a British soldier,
i city, al: Police said a bomb planted in an
pollmaytbandoned van on a roadside at
come. Irossmaglen, near the border with
stakesothe Ireland, was detonated by re-
ce the toote control as the armored car
said thisumed.
osition. llf The driver of the armored car was
ig right an#
said.
critically wounded and taken to a
Belfast hospital. His five passengers
were treated for shock and lacera
tions.
A military spokesman said the
force of the blast blew the military
vehicle fom the road.
The incident occurred just hours
after Irish police and troops found
what they described as a massive
IRA supply dump near the border.
Irish police said rockets, mortars,
grenades, blast bombs, parts of land
mines, at least 20 high-caliber rifles
and thousands of rounds of ammuni
tion were buried in a concrete bunk
er beneath a cow shed near
Drogheda.
ste| Chinese paper
>lecritical of rights
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lOH — Free debates and
■'all posters neither guarantee
ernatioml lemocratic rights nor promote Chi-
qslavia-fa’s modernization program, China’s
o’s doctonMding intellectual newspaper said
lition lii-Vednesday.
few days,'The right to free speech, hanging
;umonia if wall posters, opinion, and free de-
resisted fate, called the “big four” in China,
are not a good method for the con-
days theftruction of the four moderniza-
' Presicledons, said the newspaper Guang-
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loniaisahft drive to update industry, scien-
ly persist^, -agriculture and defense,
mdition •’ “The big four have never had an
lication ofitfh'e function in preserving peo-
e’s democratic rights,” the news-
treatn:e' a P ( ‘ r said in a statement reflecting
said. >e Chinese Communist Party’s de-
t hat Tito® 11 in February to revoke the “big
a specific( ilIr even though they were written
ito the constitution.
.‘The big four were first produced
Iring the 1950s campaign against
ghtism and developed to a peak in
. ie Cultural Revolution, the news-
* J feer said, “During the ’50s they
ere mistakenly used to criticize
I id people. ”
n Jjhe daily said the “big four”
thear
Lamb'
/ a loai
d that
egrets
wreaked serious damage against Chi
na’s democracy during Mao Tse-
tung’s 1966-76 Cultural Revolution.
“During the 10 years of the Cultu
ral Revolution, when the big four
reached perfection, this was when
socialist democracy and legality suf
fered its most serious damage and
sabotage.”
It said posters were being used by
some to further their political ambi
tions.
Bomb threat
false alarm
United Press International
DENVER — A New Mexico man
was held Wednesday in an investiga
tion of a bomb threat and alleged
assault on a Frontier Airlines em
ployee.
Police said Joseph Lazzara, 47, of
Rio Rancho, N.M., claimed he out a
bomb aboard a Frontier jet which
left for Las Vegas, Nev., after he
had been taken off the plane by
police at Denver’s Stapleton Inter
national Airport.
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previously been held without trial
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