Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tall, burly driver from his car. At Dublin's central police station, they demanded that he explain his connection with the illegal Irish Republican Army. Sean MacStiofáin, 44, chief of staff of the I.R.A.'s militant "Provisional" wing, replied, "Tada" (Nothing to say). The dramatic arrest marked the strongest action yet taken by the Dublin government against the terrorist organization since the current period of turmoil began in Northern Ireland three years...
...boldly appeared in downtown Dublin at a convention of the Provisional Sinn Fein-the political branch of the I.R.A.-to a standing ovation of 1,000 assembled delegates. "I say with confidence that we can escalate at will," he bragged in a tape-recorded radio interview just before his arrest last week. "If we were not in that position, we would be out of business...
...I.R.A. In 1969, when the organization split apart over how to conduct its campaign against British rule of Northern Ireland, MacStiofáin became leader of the Provisional wing, which has been responsible for most of the subsequent bombings and terrorist shootings in the North. Until his arrest last week, his leadership remained unchallenged. During a temporary truce last June, the British government brought him to London as head of an I.R.A. negotiating team, but violence broke out again in Ulster a few days later. British officials consider MacStiofáin ruthless and impossible to deal with, and urgently pressed...
MacStiofáin showed no signs of abandoning his fast. As the sentence was passed he aroused himself and pounded the railing of the dock. "I have taken no liquid and no food since my arrest. I'll see you in hell before I submit," he croaked at the judges. "I shall be dead within six days. Live with that...
...report, which limited itself to the question of "police misconduct" in the arrest of Largey and Thomas F. Doyle, another East Cambridge youth, recommended that the City Manager "initiate disciplinary proceedings" against Patrolman Peter E. DeLuca, and that Police Chief James Reagan take "disciplinary action" against three other officers. However, the report did not specify what those actions should entail...