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People's Democracy, a student civil rights group, was formed at the University of Belfast immediately after the march. McCann smilingly explains that the printer didn't know what to put on the top of the poster for the group's first meeting. He started with "Students for Democracy," changed it to "People for Democracy." because there were more than students in the movement, and finally changed it to "People's Democracy" when he realized that "People for Democracy" didn't make much sense. "There were a lot of starry-eyed, romantic people in it," McCann said...
...BELFAST, Northern Ireland-British troops used tear-gas to break up a demonstration of militant. Protestants in Belfast yesterday...
...Belfast Demonstration
...such public demonstrations have been banned by the Belfast government due to Northern ireland's recent religious clashes. Yesterday's parade was to mark the anniversary of the Roman Catholic civil rights demonstration in Londonderry last October which set off a wave of violence across the country...
...knows what will happen now. The release of secret conversations between Belfast and London has made it evident that the Ulster government has for some time, been unable to control the police department. (Newspaper reporters monitoring the police radio on the Derry Battle Day say that the police charged the Bogside in direct defiance of an order not to do so made by the police superintendent.) Yet the intervention of the London government may just activate the Ulster Unionist extremists. (The Rev. lan Paisley has recently brought back and dedicated to Ulster a ship used in the teens...