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...write this letter in Belfast, bombs are exploding in different parts of the city, and ordinary people are suffering. I have not had an easy day, visiting homes that are heartbroken with grief, and this afternoon seeing one of my church 17-year-olds, a leg amputee, the victim of I.R.A. gunshot wounds. It is against this background that I listened with shock at the statement of Senator Kennedy...
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...Three terrorists, trying to blow up a police station in a Belfast suburb, planted bombs in an adjoining pub. "You have ten seconds to get out!" they shouted toward the bar, but that was not enough. The toll: three killed, 35 injured (13 of them women). The police station was virtually unscathed...
Hoary Propaganda. The speech caused hardly a ripple in the U.S., but from Belfast to Whitehall it reaped a whirlwind of scorn. Kennedy, declared Northern Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Faulkner, "has shown himself willing to swallow hook, line and sinker the hoary old propaganda that I.R.A. atrocities are carried out as part of a freedom fight on behalf of the Northern Irish people." Other critics quickly pointed out that Kennedy's proposal for unification was unrealistic, and that even the Irish Republic's Lynch has said only that he hopes unification can be achieved...
Government Inquiry. For several weeks the "Insight" reporters searched for clues. Finally they had a stroke of luck: they managed to interview two former prisoners who told a sensational story of interrogation at Holywood Barracks near Belfast. Among other things, "Insight" was able to report definitely last week, prisoners had been kept in darkness for days at a time without food, had been subjected to a barrage of deafening noise, had been made to perform excruciatingly tiring exercises. Purpose of these "disorientation" techniques: to force the prisoners to give away the location of I.R.A. gunmen and arms. The methods...