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Word: belfastâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1972-1972
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...buildings are pockmarked from gunfire. Streets are blockaded by ganglia-like stretches of barbed wire and by "antiterrorist ramps"?thick bands of bitumen or concrete nine inches high that force traffic to slow to a crawl. On the red brick walls surrounding vacant lots, the children of Belfast???perhaps the most tragic victims of the war?have scrawled afresh the old slogans of idealism and hatred: "Up the I.R.A." and "Informers Beware" in the Catholic sections, "No Popery Here" in the Protestant areas. If nothing else, the signs are additional proof of the old saying that Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND / In the Shadow of the Gunmen | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

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