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...Irish Republican Army turned to a new tactic in Northern Ireland last week: indiscriminate terror directed against the civilian population. The result was appalling panic in the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland's largest city. Forty persons were injured in a series of explosions that severely damaged the headquarters of the ruling Unionist party as well as a random selection of other targets: a clothing factory, an office building, a bacon plant. Along the border, a customs post was destroyed and a national guardsman was killed by gunfire from a speeding car. A 19-month-old girl was killed...
Five minutes after visiting hours ended at Belfast's Crumlin Road jail, where more than 100 suspected Irish Republican Army terrorists and other activists were being held without trial, a bomb blasted the prison's 15 ft. teak-and-iron gates off their hinges. Two guards and two prisoners were injured. Three days later, fire alarms sounded at the headquarters of the Electricity Board of Northern Ireland, and the office staff trooped down the back stairway-just in time to catch the full force of a gelignite bomb hidden in a ground-floor locker. One man was killed...
...week's end, Britain's Labor Party leader, Harold Wilson, broadcast an eloquent appeal on behalf of his notion for tripartite talks between Belfast, London and Dublin. "For God's sake forget the past," he pleaded. "Forget William III. Forget about a long-dead Dutchman and remember you're living in the reign of Elizabeth II. Forget about the struggles of 50 years ago. Forget about the Easter Rising...
...Good Humor truck jingled incongruously in the street outside, a leader of the Irish Republican Army hunched over a table in a small brick house in Belfast last week and described the battle plans of his illegal organization. "We're not strong enough for a victory like that of the Allies in Europe," he said quietly, "but we can make it so expensive that the British will have to cut their losses...
...following night, masked men burst into a Catholic home in Belfast's Ballymurphy area where two British troopers, on leave from Germany, sat watching television with relatives. The intruders opened fire, wounding the two Britons as well as a 17-year-old boy. Earlier that day, masked gunmen tried unsuccessfully to bomb the Belfast headquarters of the ruling Unionist Party...