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...Magnums, carbines and clubs, teams of men sweep the streets, enforcing a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for everyone under 18. Citizens cower behind the barricaded doors of their own homes, listening to the shots and shouts that punctuate the night air. The city is not Beirut or Belfast but Detroit, whose agonies are every bit as real and whose conflicts seem equally impossible to eradicate...
Betty Williams, 33, was driving home from her invalid mother's house in the Catholic Andersontown district of Belfast on the afternoon of Aug. 10 when she saw a car spin out of control, its IRA driver shot through the heart by a British soldier. The car slammed a pedestrian, Anne Maguire, and her three children against a school railing. Maguire, a mechanic's wife, was so seriously hurt that as she lay in an intensive-care ward at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital last week, she still did not know that the three children-Joanne...
Last week, behind the drawn Venetian blinds of No. 20 Orchardville Gardens, Williams' home, the two women were planning a third rally that was to take them on Saturday into the heart of Belfast's most fervently Loyalist Protestant district, Shankill Road. "I went there last night to meet some of the Protestant women who have been organizing from their end," Corrigan told TIME last week. "Do you know, it was the first time I had been there in seven years...
Sheila Redden, 37, stops off in Paris en route to a second honeymoon on the French Riviera. But Kevin, her husband of 16 years, is not with her. He is having trouble getting away from both his medical practice in Belfast and the provincial conviction that a foreign holiday is a waste of good Irish scenery. As any novel reader could tell him, he is not only courting cuckoldry but demanding it. Sheila, of course, falls in love with a handsome American, eleven years her junior, and goes off on a binge of sexual ecstasy well beyond the range...
Moore deftly links the potential destructiveness of Sheila's behavior to larger rips in the social fabric- particularly to contemporary Northern Ireland and to "Belfast bombed and barricaded." Sheila thinks it "a bad joke that when the people at home no longer believed in their religion, or went to church as they once did, the religious fighting was worse than ever." Later, during an argument with her brother, Sheila is blunt to the point of despair: "The Protestants don't believe in Britain and the Catholics don't believe in God. And none of us believes...