The Washington Post, January 31st, 1988
A generous Gaelic spirit if Ireland ever had one (and it's occasionally been in clover with many), Sean MacBride left much behind. He dealt in durables. At his death in Dublin in mid-January, the 83-year-old Irish peacemaker had the original wiring of his youthful conscience. A cofounder of Amnesty International in 1961, he lived to see it become a global force for the protection of imprisoned political dissenters. Years before the world noticed South Africa's war on blacks, MacBride had been campaigning there to win independence for Namibia. For that, as well as his lifework in nuclear and co...
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