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...injured across Ulster. Among those killed was four-year-old Siobhan McCabe, felled by a sniper's bullet apparently intended for a British soldier. Another was Samuel Llewellyn, 29, a Protestant truck driver who was delivering a load of paperboard in the Catholic Falls Road area of Belfast to help patch up windows shattered in a bomb blast the previous day. Although Llewellyn was making the delivery at the request of a Catholic welfare organization, he was dragged from the truck by a Catholic mob, beaten and shot five times...
...difficult issues, convention delegates know they can no longer postpone dealing with the two main areas of disagreement: power sharing for the Catholics, who are virtually excluded from positions of responsibility in Ulster; and the "Irish dimension," a Catholic proposal for some formal cooperation between the governments of Belfast and Dublin...
...wife and beautiful young daughter are killed in a Belfast street struggle between young I.R.A. partisans and British troops. The I.R.A. has been trying for years to enlist Hennessy's technical skills in their struggle, but he has always resisted. Even after the tragedy, he remains a loner. He books himself a one-way ticket on the morning flight to London, hides out with the widow of an I.R.A. friend (Lee Remick), and starts putting together his fantastic plot...
They buried Agnes McAnoy, 62, widow and mother of three, in Belfast last week. And Molly McAleavy, 57, mother of eleven. And Marie Bennett, 42, mother of seven. And Arthur Penn, 33, father of three. And Elizabeth Carson, 64, whose husband Willy lost an arm. Pathetic lines of mourners wept after the requiem at the Catholic Church of St. Matthew, half a mile from where the attackers had tossed a bomb into the crowded Strand bar in East Belfast...
...Provos' conduct in the campaign adds to that suspicion; they are urging a Catholic boycott. As a result, there is doubt that the new convention will work any better than the "power-sharing" coalition that broke down last June. One housewife in Belfast asked last week, "If this is a ceasefire, what's war?" Should the new convention collapse and the fragile truce break down completely, she may find...