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...lose momentum in its goal to drive the British out of Ireland entirely. If the I.R.A. continued, it could lose the support of Ulster's Catholics, whose immediate demands had been met by the end of the Stormont government, and by a British promise to begin releasing terrorist suspects who had been interned since last summer. "Very nearly 100% of the people in my area favor a stop to the bombing now," said John Hume, M.P. for Londonderry and a leading Catholic moderate...
...there, President Banda of Malawi, one of the great traitors to the African people, was scheduled to visit the Cabora Bassa construction site. Comes the day when Banda is supposed to land at Cabora Bassa, Radio South Africa was shocked to admit that his helicopter could not land because "terrorist" activity had created a security problem. The following day he was supposed to have lunch at so-forth-and-so-on Officers Club, and they had to admit that he was forced to dine on a boat because the "terrorists" had created a security problem on the land and they...
...divided Catholic and Protestant communities -and in strengthening the hands of extremists on both sides. The recently split Unionist ranks now have closed behind Faulkner and his no-nonsense rejection of any form of Irish unification. From Stormont came cold statements blaming the marchers for "a meaningless and futile terrorist exercise." The typical Protestant worker's reaction was expressed by one laborer in a Belfast pub last week when he said, "I wish it had been 1,300 of the bastards...
...last week of 1971 was typical of life in the dour, grimy Victorian cities of the North that are a battleground in the conflict between the British army and the outlawed terrorist Irish Republican Army. There were bombings in Belfast, Londonderry, Enniskillen and the village of Rostrevor. where the I.R.A. destroyed the country house of Ivan Neill, Speaker of the Ulster House of Commons. (Neill and his wife were away...
Still the gunmen persisted, and during World War II they almost perished for so doing. I.R.A. diehards waged terrorist bombing campaigns against Britain during the war?sometimes with Nazi help. This so threatened Irish neutrality that De Valera turned on the I.R.A. mercilessly. He had three members shot; two more were hanged, while others languished for years in the dreaded Curragh internment camp. Proudly, Ireland's Minister of Justice announced in 1947 that the I.R.A. was dead...