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Militant Fervor. On Maundy Thursday, Mrs. Martha Crawford, 39, mother of ten, was killed in a crossfire between snipers and British troops. In response, Andersonstown members of Belfast's nonsectarian Women Together-launched 18 months ago to combat violence-drew about 200 neighbors to a Catholic school hall last week to urge an end to the bombings and shootings...
...evil in our midst." At week's end, more than 50,000 Protestants staged a mass rally to display their solidarity against a "sellout" by the Heath government. Even though demonstrations are illegal in Northern Ireland these days, Catholics responded with a march of their own through the Andersonstown section of Belfast...
...truce until the obsequies were finished. But the violence did not stop completely. In Belfast, a sniper killed a British sentry. A 100-lb. gelignite bomb exploded in a downtown department store, wounding nine civilians and two policemen. Two soldiers were slightly injured by sniper fire in the Catholic Andersonstown district. After the funeral it was business as usual for the terrorists and their sympathizers. In the Lower Falls Road district of Belfast, Catholics rioted for more than four hours and pelted army patrols...
...Terrorists machine-gunned two plain-clothes detectives who were investigating a burglary in the Catholic district of An-dersonstown. That brought the toll of slain police to six in 16 days, and the army retaliated by sealing off Andersonstown and searching every house. They arrested 28 suspects and seized 3,000 rounds of ammunition, eight guns and a cache of explosive chemicals...