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PEACE, proclaimed the banner at the head of the procession. The marchers were 3,000 war-weary Catholics from the Lenadoon Avenue district of West Belfast. After the two-week-old cease-fire broke down, Lenadoon Avenue became a no man's land between British troops and I.R.A. guerrillas. The marchers, blankets and belongings in hand, had finally decided to evacuate their homes and bed down in nearby public schools until the fighting eased. Long before they had a chance to consider returning home, all talk of peace was shattered by the worst bombing attack in Ulster...
Throughout the week, the almost endemic violence sputtered on in Londonderry (see following story), and in Belfast the night sky reddened with a huge fire in a lumberyard where there was an army post. To keep the I.R.A. from leaving bombs in cars parked outside department stores and office buildings, several major downtown Belfast streets were closed to all traffic except buses and emergency vehicles...
...attempt at explanation. In both structure and phrasing, the song is partially reminiscent of Hendrix's "And the Wind Cries Mary," without the latter's cosmic reverberations. Nothing concrete can be said about the song's lyric. It's been reliably reported that the song combines images of Belfast. Van's hometown, and San Francisco, his new home, into a statement on the condition of his life at the present...
...ENTERING FREE WOODVALE. Four such areas in Belfast, plus one in Londonderry, are now permanently "nogo" for British troops, with entry blocked by steel girders, cement slabs, or masked U.D.A...
...weeks ago, 8,000 U.D.A. men massed to extend one of Belfast's barricaded areas and were met by British troops. Fortunately for both sides, a compromise was worked out. Said one U.D.A. commander afterward: "If anyone had told me a year ago that we'd have 8,000 men standing eyeball to eyeball with the British army in the pouring rain, and then say 'All right, you're going home,' and the men went home, I wouldn't have believed it. The determination of these men, properly channeled...