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In Northern Ireland, the alienation of the Catholic third of the population is very nearly total. Adding to Britain's problems is the ever-present danger of a Protestant backlash. The Orangemen have been remarkably quiescent during the recent weeks of violence and terror, but militant Protestants were angry...
The previous Sunday-Jan. 30, 1972-had already been inscribed in the terrible dark memories of the Irish people as "Bloody Sunday." On that bright, wintry afternoon, a march in the Catholic ghetto of Londonderry called the Bogside suddenly turned into a brief but violent battle between the marchers and...
Futile Exercise. Bloody Sunday made it clear to all that the 15,000-man British army force, which is technically under Stormont's control but is independent in practice, has not yet reduced violence in Ulster to "an acceptable level," as Maudling recently described its aim. The Londonderry killings...
On the Catholic side, the killings immensely increased the influence of the I.R.A. terrorists, who now have more applicants than they can possibly train. Internment had confirmed the Catholics' worst fears about the Protestant-dominated Stormont government: that its ultimate answer to Catholic political and civil rights demands would...
But the terrorists still have some sting. Last week a Protestant bus driver who was scheduled to testify at a trial of three gunmen was shot dead at his own front door. A British soldier was also killed by a mine on border patrol. His death was the 214th since...