Word: luton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were accused of involvement in the October bombing of a Guildford pub in which five died; six of those arrested were charged with murder. Of the five I.R.A. terrorist cells that the British believe are operating in England-two in London and three in the Midlands cities of Birmingham, Luton and Coventry -authorities think that one and perhaps two have been broken up by the arrests. Parliament, meanwhile, voted down by a margin of 369 to 217 a proposal to restore hanging as capital punishment for terrorists, although the final vote, as Home Secretary Roy Jenkins acknowledged, was "probably...
After the detectives threatened to arrest both him and his sister, Lennon agreed to work as an undercover agent for $50 a month. He was told to get into the branch of Sinn Fein (the I.R. A.'s political arm) in Luton, a north London industrial suburb. More specifically, he was to do his drinking at a pub called The Foresters, where he met several Irish militants. "I was told to get in on everything they were up to," Lennon recalled. "I cannot remember the exact words [the detectives] used, but one of them said that I should...
Eventually, Lennon helped form a unit with four I.R.A. sympathizers. "It was a unit of nothing specifically," Lennon said. "This was not an official branch of the military wing of the I.R.A. No one in Ireland was aware that there was a group of this nature in Luton. We had no real plan, although we decided to organize to get weapons. We managed to get some old shotguns. They were bloody antiques...
...church's restoration fund, the Rev. David Hill of Luton offered to deliver parishioners' letters for 30? each. Scotland's electricity board got employees' wives to distribute bills by hand. For 72? a letter, one outfit collected mail from London firms and delivered it to Paris by plane. A London builder and decorator named Tim Randall, 24, recruited seven "postmen," mostly students, at 96? an hour to deliver letters...