Word: belfast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Army. Terrorist acts are also committed regularly by extremists on the Protestant side, most of them members of paramilitary groups like the illegal Ulster Freedom Fighters. Last week, acting on growing evidence that members of the U.D.R. were leaking confidential information on I.R.A. suspects to such Protestant extremist groups, Belfast police took the ; unprecedented step of mounting raids against a fellow security force. Some 300 members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary detained 28 U.D.R. soldiers. Twenty- two of them were released, and six were charged with possession of ammunition and a firearm...
Carver compares the standoff between the casinos and the city to the "British army in Belfast," but a metaphor from neocolonial Africa might be more apt. For in a city headed by its first black mayor, with a gambling economy run largely by white accountants and business school graduates, most of the civic tensions are circumscribed by race. Two years ago, a suggestion by Carver that the city's black administrator be replaced by "the best municipal manager" was met at city hall with charges of "Ku Klux Klan" tactics...
...Belfast to Boston: Dateline 1969-1989 at the Mills Gallery through...
SIMPLE MINDS: STREET FIGHTING YEARS (A&M). Superb rock with a big thematic reach and the rhythm to boost its high ambitions. Belfast Child, a heart-torn vision of the Irish troubles, is more evocative, and more devastating, than a hundred editorials or a thousand speeches...
...Government itself has on occasion declined to extradite some suspected terrorists. In 1981 it refused to hand over Desmond Mackin, an I.R.A. member, to Britain, and it is now reviewing the case of I.R.A. fighter Joseph Doherty, an escapee from a Belfast prison...