Word: belfast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/ Belfast and Bonnie Angela/ London
...British army helicopters clattered anxiously overhead, some 50,000 Northern Irish Catholics lined the streets of Belfast last week for an emotional ceremony that was part funeral, part political demonstration. A lone piper led the way as thousands of mourners followed a Daimler hearse bearing a coffin draped in the green, white and orange flag of the Irish Republic. Beside the hearse strode seven hooded members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, dressed in mottled green combat jackets and berets...
...prospect of a sustained war of attrition hardly boded well for the scarred, sad urban ghettos of Belfast, Londonderry and other Northern centers. As the clanging of garbage can lids announced the news of Sands' death, gangs of Catholic youths once again rampaged through the streets, despite calls from the I.R.A. itself for calm as the organization prepared its martyr's farewell. Cars and other vehicles were overturned and burned as impromptu barricades. As they had in previous weeks, plumes of smoke from Molotov cocktails hung over Belfast. One youngster blew himself up as he tried to plant...
...that also held itself in check in Northern Ireland was the province's Protestant majority ("the sleeping monster," as one senior British army officer called it) that outnumbers Catholics 2 to 1. On the day of Sands' funeral, Protestant Leader Ian Paisley held another memorial service, outside Belfast city hall, to commemorate the many victims of I.R.A. terrorism. Nonetheless, said Paisley: "Protestants will not react so long as the police and the army are controlling the situation in Catholic areas, and so far they have been doing that satisfactorily...
...approached rival governments like a baseball free agent dickering with club owners. The U.S. Government offered him $65 million in loan guarantees if his plant were built in Puerto Rico, but De Lorean took $114 million in loans and grants from Britain to make his cars near economically depressed Belfast in Northern Ireland...