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...troubles of Ireland. From the near legendary Countess Markievicz (Constance Gore-Booth), who was one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, to the black-bereted Provisional I.R.A. women of today, they have preached belligerence, run guns, helped plant bombs and provided sanctuary. The Catholic women of Belfast and Londonderry have been a not-so-secret weapon of the I.R.A.-lookouts who raised a racket by banging garbage-can lids when British soldiers approached, or shielded fugitive gunmen when squads of troops swooped into the Catholic ghettos...
Militant Fervor. On Maundy Thursday, Mrs. Martha Crawford, 39, mother of ten, was killed in a crossfire between snipers and British troops. In response, Andersonstown members of Belfast's nonsectarian Women Together-launched 18 months ago to combat violence-drew about 200 neighbors to a Catholic school hall last week to urge an end to the bombings and shootings...
...Traitors!" Said Mrs. Marie Drumm: "We are threatening nobody. But I would not advise anyone to hand over to the British army any boy who was on the run." The fervor of Ulster's more militant Catholic women was also reflected in several columns of paid ads in Belfast's Irish News urging resistance by the hunger-striking detainees aboard the prison ship Maidstone in Belfast harbor (which the government ordered closed last week). Said one sample ad: "Hamill-to Frankie and comrades on your ninth day of hunger strike. They can intern the revolutionaries, but they...
Next day a series of bombs went off; one of them devastated a stretch of Belfast's Wellington Street and killed a British officer. Another 18 persons were injured in a blast in Lisburn, the site of British army headquarters...
...soon as the bill was law, William Whitelaw, the new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland-"the Supremo of Ulster," as the newspapers dubbed him-flew by helicopter to Windsor to accept his seals of office from Queen Elizabeth, and then proceeded to Belfast. One of his first tasks, he promised Parliament, would be to review the files of the internees-numbering some 720-and free some of them...