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A new wave of terrorism, in which seven died, put Northern Ireland on the verge of a grim and unwanted millenary last week. The fatalities raised the total number of people killed in the smoldering civil conflict since 1969 to 998. In addition, 28 were wounded in bombings by extremists...
Belfast businessmen demanded an immediate response from Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees. "You are to blame for all this!" yelled an embittered woman as Rees made his first official visit to Bel fast to inspect the damage. Most infuriated...
Elusive Normalcy. Returning to London to deliver his first major speech in the Commons, Rees announced a deceptively moderate program that did indeed emphasize a political solution. He outlined the government's determination to continue transferring responsibility for the security of the province to the Ulstermen themselves. In a...
John Hamilton, 46, was a Belfast Protestant working among fellow Protestants in the hard, exclusive domain of the shipyards. The father of one child, he lived a politically uneventful life with his wife Lily, who happens to be a Catholic. Two of their relatives were also stained by mixed marriages...
The systematic terror began in October 1972, when Hamilton's nephew, James Patrick McCartan, a Catholic, was dragged from a wedding party by members of a still legal Protestant vigilante force, the Ulster Defense Association. A pathologist's report and the confession of his killer indicate that McCartan...