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...crowd of Belfast Catholics was watching an evening soccer game on the television set in Kellys Bar when a bomb exploded in a parked car outside, setting off a weekend of violence in which nine people were killed and 100 injured. The Catholics blamed the bombing on Protestant extremists; the British army concluded that it might have been caused by I.R.A. explosives that went off by accident. In a sense it did not really matter. The important fact was that after two months of direct rule from London, the Ulstermen were as close to anarchy as ever...
...wave of terrorism was a setback for William Whitelaw, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. In the eight weeks since he had been sent to Belfast to replace the suspended provincial parliament at Stormont, Whitelaw had pursued a policy of conciliation and persuasion. He ordered the release of 306 interned Catholics who were being held without trial in prison camps under Ulster's Special Powers Act, and instructed British troops to avoid incidents in Catholic areas. He also allowed to remain standing the barricades set up and manned by the I.R.A. in the "no go" Catholic...
...Whitelaw's strategy of restraint. They demanded that the barricades be torn down. To force Whitelaw's hand, masked members of the Ulster Defense Association, a militant Protestant organization, hijacked cars and used them to create a 24-hour barricade around the Protestant Woodvale district of Belfast. Unless Whitelaw sent his troops into the Bogside, declared the U.D.A., the Protestants would surround their areas with permanent barricades also...
...members of Protestant youth gangs known as the Tartans. Mostly boys between 14 and 20 years of age, they wear blue jeans and jackets and sport tartan scarves as symbols of their Scottish and Protestant ancestry. Their slogan, TARTAN RULES, is scrawled on gable walls in most of Belfast's Protestant ghettos...
Peter Wolf introduced Van as "the Belfast Cowboy and his band." An accurate description of an emigrated Irishman now living in Marin County. Van Morrison makes music that is heavily influenced by the indigenously American music of black people. Yet, it's synthesized into an intensely personal music with its own statement. Since Moondance, that statement has been joyous. Van Morrison makes music that's fun to listen to; comes straight to your heart like a cannonball...