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...Death notice in the Irish News, a Catholic newspaper in Belfast...
Even so, Ulster had been able to return briefly to life as it once was. In Belfast, pubs and restaurants were jammed, and people who a few weeks before would not have ventured from their houses after dark queued up for the movies. The British army took its heavy personnel carriers, the hated "pigs," off the city streets, and Catholic and Protestant leaders sponsored a united drive to "think, talk, pray" peace...
...helped to arrange the cease-fire said earlier last week. "If this fails, it will be a fight to the finish." With a vengeance that seemed to prove him right, the peace was shattered shortly after the I.R.A. announcement, by a bomb explosion at an army post in northern Belfast...
...Belfast, the British campaign to cripple the I.R.A. intensified. At least 16 suspected Proves were arrested in the bloody Ardoyne area. Police also raided a house in the Roman Catholic Lower Falls Road area and uncovered what they claimed was a central I.R.A. "factory" for explosives: fire bombs wired to watches and American-made booby traps as well as arms and ammunition. More important, they found and arrested Tommy Maguire, one of the Provisionals' top explosive experts, who had been at large since he escaped from Belfast's Crumlin Road jail four years...
...troubling question is what all these curbs on traditional British freedoms will do to cure the underlying causes of the problem. In Belfast, the killing goes on, with eleven murders recently committed within the space of just five days. There seems to be little chance that the proposed constitutional convention in January will produce an acceptable power-sharing formula for Ulster's divided people. Tragically, that is just what the I.R.A. and its extremist Protestant adversaries want...