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British Prime Minister Edward Heath, who had been under strong opposition pressure to speak out against the bombing: "It is easy to demand condemnatory statements, but past experience strongly suggests that they are not always the best way of bringing peace nearer...
...Provisionals were plainly trying to win back by force a place at the conference table that they have been denied since last summer's fragile truce broke down and they resumed bombing. Last week British Prime Minister Edward Heath revealed in Parliament that I.R.A. truce feelers had recently been made again through intermediaries, but the Provisionals' conditions for political talks are unacceptable to the British: a declaration of British intent to quit Northern Ireland, withdrawal of troops to their barracks, and a general amnesty. The British government is no longer interested, and not only out of fear...
...they had ended a seven-month political and constitutional crisis and wiped away any lingering doubts about the maturity of democracy in their country. At the same time, the resounding re-election they had accorded Brandt-a test that France's Georges Pompidou and Britain's Ted Heath have yet to face-affirmed the Chancellor's position as the most powerful man in Western Europe...
Protestant extremists in Northern Ireland sometimes threaten that the province might some day follow Rhodesia's example and make a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain. Last week, on a two-day tour of Ulster, British Prime Minister Edward Heath warned of the consequences in the bluntest possible terms. Such an attempt not only would bring about a bloodbath, he said, but if it succeeded, Britain would not pay the new nation "one penny" of the $500 million that it now subsidizes the province with annually...
...first official visit to Northern Ireland's battle zones, Heath was guarded like a U.S. President venturing into Viet Nam. Armed troops surrounded him everywhere he went in Belfast and Londonderry. Heath did not hide Britain's growing exasperation with Ulster's warring factions. Irish sufferings "haunt us day by day," he said. But what the British people "do not as yet find in Northern Ireland," he added, "is the will to make an effective and lasting peace." As Heath toured the province, the bombings and shootings went on. By week's end the three-year...