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...BELFAST--Eight persons, including a retarded 15-year-old Cathoic body shot in his bed, died in continuing violence Wednesday and Thursday in one of the bloodiest 24-hour periods since a two week ceasefire ended Sunday...
British officials have been studying a new truce offer from the Irish Republican Army. Seams Twomey, chief of the IRA's provisional wing in Belfast, said the provisionals would be willing to negotiate a new ceasefire with William Whitelaw, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, provided British forces promise to honor the truce...
Gunbattles spread across Belfast and Londonderry and 10 persons died in the fighting...
...first hours after the IRA provisional wing called off its true Sunday night, six civilians died in Belfast, including a 14-year-old girl and a Roman Catholic priest who was shot as he administered the last rites to another victim. Sixteen soldiers and 10 civilians were wounded...
Foreign Secretary William Whitelaw flew from London to Belfast yesterday to confer with security advisers on the crisis, and then flew back to make a statement to Parliament...