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Urban life stutters along, but only barely. "You can't really enjoy a film when you are called out of the cinema three times for a bomb scare," observes one laconic citizen. Most pubs downtown now close at 6 for lack of business. The restaurants and movies are largely...
Police suspect that some of the slayings are ordered by kangaroo courts that are settling scores between the I.R.A.'s feuding Provisional and Marxist-lining Official wings. Others have almost certainly been carried out by extremists of the Protestant Ulster Defense Association. Catholics fear that U.D.A. assassins are seeking...
But the fact that almost as many Protestants as Catholics have been killed-and that few of the victims had any connection with extremist organizations-has now led to fears that a terrorist gang of assassins, possibly psychopaths with no political connections, may be at work. One gang in the...
The new violence, which took more lives than the bombings last month, has left Ulster residents benumbed. "I just wish somebody would teach me how to live again," says Mrs. Malcolm Orr, "because I believe I have forgotten how." The Orrs, a Protestant family, lost both their sons, aged 19...
Potter becomes the third man to occupy the office since the World Council was founded in 1948. Scholarly Dutchman W.A. Visser 't Hooft, one of the organization's founding fathers, held the post until 1966, when he was succeeded by noted U.S. Presbyterian Ecumenist Eugene Carson Blake. Now...