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...London, demands mounted for an open investigation into published reports (see THE PRESS) that I.R.A. suspects in Belfast were being brainwashed and tortured. In Ulster itself, where at least ten more died in one of the bloodiest weeks thus far, the British were blowing up roads along the Ulster-Eire border to stop gunrunning. They also boosted their troop force...
Rising prices are a greater problem for Ireland than rising ire in Belfast. Inflation hit 10% in 1970, and the rate is still around 8%. Struggling valiantly to keep inflation at bay, the government has expanded existing price controls to cover the service industries. Labor unions, fearful that wage controls would be imposed, reluctantly agreed to accept raises of no more than $5 a week until the end of this year, and then only increases of 4% plus cost of living rises in the first half of 1972. With sound management and reasonable luck, the government will avoid the dramas...
...this summer, a broad-scale Protestant backlash has been building in the British province. Earlier this month, 1,000 former B Specials, the Protestant police auxiliary disbanded on British orders two years ago, met to urge that the group be reorganized and rearmed. A few days later, 20,000 Belfast workers roared their approval of right-wing demands for a Protestant "third force...
...criticism from Ulster's Catholics (who constitute about one-third of Northern Ireland's 1,500,000 population). He announced that 219 of the Catholics who were interned without trial last month would be held indefinitely, while a mere 14 would be released. "Detention," declared the independent Belfast Telegraph, "has driven a massive wedge between the two sections of the community...
Lynch's handling of the Joe Cahill case last week was an example of how shrewdly the Prime Minister maintains the balancing act. Cahill, the I.R.A. leader from Belfast, flew from Dublin to the U.S. to raise money "to kill British soldiers." But he was refused entry to the U.S. on a technicality, and was returned to Dublin. There he was detained by Irish authorities, held for eleven hours, and then released. The detention was presumed to be Jack Lynch's gesture to Britain, and also a way of warning the I.R.A. gunmen to watch their manners while...