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...Provisional" wing brought out ominous new weaponry-Soviet-model rocket launchers-to fire at British military targets. In the Irish Republic to the south, the terror that the North has known for three years suddenly made its appearance. Car bombs went off outside a labor union hall and a Dublin department store, and a parcel bomb exploded in a late-night cinema. Two were killed, and over 140 injured...
...Dublin bombings, although immediately denied by the I.R.A., dramatically affected the mood in the South, where the Fianna Fail government of Prime Minister Jack Lynch had been battling to push harsh new anti-I.R.A. legislation through the Dáil (Parliament). "They have turned their guns on the security forces of this state," declared Lynch. "Will they next turn their rockets on targets in this country...
Even though the I.R.A. is banned in the Irish Republic as well as in the North, MacStiofáin has operated out of Dublin with considerable latitude since 1969. He lived quietly in rural Navan, northwest of Dublin, gave periodic television and press interviews and occasionally slipped across the border to harangue I.R.A. units in the field. Theoretically he was a wanted man, but last month he boldly appeared in downtown Dublin at a convention of the Provisional Sinn Fein-the political branch of the I.R.A.-to a standing ovation of 1,000 assembled delegates. "I say with confidence that...
...remained unchallenged. During a temporary truce last June, the British government brought him to London as head of an I.R.A. negotiating team, but violence broke out again in Ulster a few days later. British officials consider MacStiofáin ruthless and impossible to deal with, and urgently pressed the Dublin government of Prime Minister Jack Lynch to crack down on the Provisionals' activities in the Republic...
...father-in-law's pub just north of the border. Under O'Malley's authority, the government has prosecuted more than 100 I.R.A. men on various charges, tightened controls on firearms and explosives, and last month raided and padlocked the Provisional Sinn Fein offices in Dublin. This week the government will present to the Irish Parliament a bill that seeks to redefine membership in illegal organizations and put the burden of proof on defendants to disclaim their affiliation with such groups. Says O'Malley: "It's part of the general policy of the government here...