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where there were numerous injuries. Long claimed that
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families. He negotiated a small role for the state in
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Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, with special responsibility for fisheries. Long proved loyal to O'Neill and was rewarded in 1966 with promotion to
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Out of politics, Long became the owner and skipper of a fishing boat, and also the Chief
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to violent loyalists, a group which Long had described as "the very antithesis of
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imposed direct rule, Long protested that this was merely a political gambit, in exchange for
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schools into the state school system, which overwhelmingly took pupils from
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in 1952, serving as chairman from 1955 until 1964. He was also a member of
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of introducing "capital punishment" by sacking 2,000 men during a strike.
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disputed this, and claimed that Long was being partisan.
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Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture
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