Word: andersonstown
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...prevent fast getaways. Downtown in the "control zone," no car may be parked unattended. Solitary figures sit like dolls behind the wheels to prove there is no bomb. Armored personnel carriers, called "pigs" by the children, poke their snouts around corners and lurch out to create sudden roadblocks. The Andersonstown police station, like a fly draped in a web, is barely visible behind what looks like a baseball backstop. The fence is slanted inward at the top, to fend off any rockets...
...Andersonstown Road, in the heart of a Catholic section, the cortege stopped, and the coffin was removed from the hearse. Three more I.R.A. men suddenly appeared with rifles and fired into the air the traditional three volleys of honor and mourning. The procession, discreetly shepherded by police and British troops, moved past Protestant strongholds, where tall screens were erected to prevent even eye contact between the rival sectarian groups...
...HAGGARD, HONEY-HAIRED 37-year-old mother of seven children spoke to me last July in the locker room of a Catholic boys' school in the Andersonstown section of Belfast. She chose the locker room not as a secret meeting place safe amidst the bombs and bullets of the Troubles, but because it happened to be where she and her children lived at the time. Theresa McGinnis slept on a canvas camping cot beside the entrance to the showers and her children slept on the benches between lockers, abandoning them for the floor after falling off a few times...
...murdered simply because they are Catholic or Protestant. Apparently exasperated by a delay in the publication of an anticipated British White Paper setting forth a new political structure for Northern Ireland, terrorists shifted their attack. Most of last week's shootings took place in West Belfast, where Catholic Andersonstown is separated from Protestant Donegal Road by the fast-moving M-l motorway. Suddenly violence cropped up there as gunmen used the motorway for an escape route...
...seemed especially pertinent again. Northern Ireland was still shaking from the I.R.A. Provisional Wing's "Bloody Friday" assault on Belfast (TIME, July 31). Last week British soldiers took the offensive. Discarding the army's "low profile" policy, troops invaded such Catholic strongholds as Belfast's Andersonstown and Ballymurphy districts and rounded up hundreds of men for questioning. Giant bulldozers ripped through the iron-pylon barricades that had marked many Catholic enclaves. In Belfast's narrow Keenan Street, the soldiers discovered a complete bomb factory, 420 lbs. of gelignite, sodium nitrate, detonators and fuse wire...