Word: belfast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catholic ballad, written at the time of the Ulster government's first internment of Irish Republican Army suspects a year ago, 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...
...week's end, in any case, all thought of negotiation was blown away by a volley of I.R.A. bombs. First a freight train was blown up near Lurgan, 20 miles southwest of Belfast. Then a bomb went off in a Belfast bus station, killing at least four civilians and two British soldiers. Soon, in what was obviously a carefully planned operation, explosions were going off throughout the city. Among the targets: three bus terminals, a railway station, a garage, two highway bridges...
William Whitelaw rushed back to Belfast from London, condemning the I.R.A. attacks as "dastardly." A member of his staff added bitterly: "It looks like being a bloody Friday." In 21 bombings in Belfast that day, at least eleven people had been killed and 130 injured...
Since the end of the cease-fire between the British army and the militant Provisional wing of the I.R.A. two weeks ago, the Catholic areas of Belfast and Londonderry have taken on the look of small battlefields. TIME Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer was in both cities last week as the Proves stepped up their guerrilla campaign against British troops. His report...
When I arrived back in Belfast, two more British soldiers had been killed. In one battle, a Saracen armored car fired on snipers holed up behind a sandbagged wall between two apartment buildings. The snipers fled, and a few minutes later, a six-year-old girl walked among the people in front of the bullet-scarred flats playing a tape recording of the battle. "What really worries me," said one mother sadly, "is what this has done to our children...