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...heads the new government, General Buhari, is a figure to be reckoned with. During the previous military government, he served as Nigeria's Oil Minister and before that as governor of Borno state. He attended the British Officers' Cadet School at Aldershot, near London, and the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Like Shagari, he is both a Muslim from the north and a political moderate...
...tires of Jeeps or thumping the sides of armored vehicles, but in other respects the Chinese officers were behaving just like wide-eyed customers inspecting the new models in an auto showroom. Evincing much more interest than the representatives of the 60 other countries attending Britain's Aldershot exhibit of glittering military equipment last week, a six-member Chinese military delegation moved slowly from display to display. It intently studied the Chieftain tank, asked detailed questions about the Clansman tactical communications system and carefully examined dozens of examples from among the 10,000 other items of defense hardware being...
...recent years have strongly opposed the opening of a new campaign of terror in London. The rebels are far more isolated there than they are in Northern Ireland, and the damage they can cause is not so great. Last year's I.R.A. attack on a paratrooper base at Aldershot, 35 miles from London, backfired humiliatingly; of the seven people killed when a bomb went off in a mess hall, all were civilians, five were women and one was a Catholic priest. Both bombers were caught and convicted. Last week's terrorists seemed to fare no better. Within hours...
Cowardly Act. Even though the I.R.A. boasted that the Aldershot bombers had escaped to safety in Ireland, British police searched the homes of hundreds of Irish nationals living in England and held scores of Irishmen for questioning. Apart from the terrorists, almost everyone appeared to have been shocked by the latest wanton killing of civilians. Even Irish Catholic M.P. Bernadette Devlin, who a few weeks ago angrily stated that she "would not shed a single tear" for any British soldiers killed in revenge, admitted that the act of retaliation had gone "horrifically wrong." In Dublin, Irish Republican Prime Minister John...
Undaunted by even the Irish revulsion over Aldershot, the Official I.R.A. raised Ulster terror to a new dimension. At week's end, an I.R.A. murder squad pumped six submachine-gun bullets into John Taylor, 34, Northern Ireland's Minister of State for Home Affairs, as he started to drive home in Armagh. Taylor, who is boss of Ulster's security forces, was the first victim of a deliberate political assassination attempt. Though he was hit in the jaw, throat, chest and hand, Taylor survived after two emergency operations. But the murder attempt, less than a month after...