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...Belfast. As the prisoners passed the 40th day of their fast last week, there were increasing fears that one or more might die. If so, the troubled province could be in for a new round of bloodshed and sectarian violence. In sympathy, three women convicts at a prison in Armagh joined the fast, and thousands of supporters staged protest marches and torchlight rallies in Catholic districts of Belfast and Londonderry. On Saturday, nearly 25,000 demonstrators, led by Catholic Activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, a onetime member of Britain's Parliament from Ulster, turned out for a march in Dublin...
Earlier in the month, the I.R.A. claimed responsibility for two similar slayings in the border area. Wallace Allen, 49, a south Armagh milkman who was a reserve policeman in the Royal Ulster Constabulary (R.U.C.), and Ross Hearst, 56, a laborer, whom the I.R.A. had accused of passing information to security forces, were abducted and shot to death...
...combatting terrorism. In Northern Ireland, where S.A.S. men have been posted since 1976, the unit is credited with halving the rate at which British servicemen were murdered by I.R.A. gunmen. One reason for the S.A.S.'s success has been its fearsome psychological impact on terrorists in South Armagh. So great is the S.A.S. reputation that European governments have often called upon its antiterrorist squads for help. During the 1977 hijacking of a Lufthansa 707 to Mogadishu, for example, the S.A.S. sent two men to advise West German commandos in their successful storming of the aircraft...
...areas of human behavior and new models of morality are being proposed in the name of would-be freedom." After the Mass, the Pope flew by helicopter to Drogheda, a small manufacturing town 30 miles north of Dublin. The town is part of the northern ecclesiastical province of Armagh, which includes Ulster. At Drogheda, he made an impassioned plea for an end to the violence that has long plagued Northern Ireland and appealed to Ulster's Protestants to "see in me a friend and a brother in Christ...
...against terrorism is Britain's 900-man Special Air Service Regiment. Founded in Libya in 1942 to penetrate the lines of Rommel's Afrika Korps, the S. A.S. has battled Communist guerrillas in Malaya, Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya, and I.R.A. gunmen in South Armagh. Probably the most seasoned commando force is Israel's General Intelligence and Reconnaissance Unit 269; its accomplishments include the 1972 rescue, at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, of 90 hostages aboard a Sabena jet that had been hijacked by Palestinian terrorists, and last year's daring Entebbe raid. Late last week...