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Fate and politics have a way sometimes of cheating would-be martyrs. Belfast's Price sisters-Dolours, 23, and Marion, 20-were sentenced last Nov. 15 to life in prison for their part in the March 1973 London car bombings that injured 238 persons and led to the fatal heart attack of another. In an effort to gain attention for their Irish Republican cause and force British authorities to return them to Ulster for the rest of their prison term, the sisters pursued a grim path toward self-imposed death: for seven months they systematically starved themselves...
Dolours and Marion are daughters of a former I.R. A. officer who once tunneled his way out of a Londonderry prison. The sisters were raised amid the revolutionary passions of Belfast's working-class Andersontown district, an I.R.A. stronghold. As teenagers, they shared a liking for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as well as for Irish folk dances. Both girls were and are devout Roman Catholics: a notebook that Dolours was carrying when she was arrested for the London bombings contained notes on the Virgin Mary along with details about her I.R.A. contacts...
...Catholic-dominated Republic of Ireland and this can be prevented only if Ulster's Protestants band together in political and military opposition to union. A soft-spoken lawyer whose voice seldom rises above a whisper, Craig last week talked with TIME Correspondent William McWhirter in his suburban Belfast home, which is still scarred by a recent terrorist bomb attack. The views of King Billy...
...time, it indeed seemed as if the U.W.C. had set up an alternative government. The council's headquarters was a large, comfortable villa in a middle-class neighborhood of Belfast. There the U.W.C. distributed "ration coupons" without which gasoline could not be purchased because the militants had taken control of nearly all the province's gas stations. "We are out to spare the people as much as possible," said a U.W.C. spokesman, "and squeeze the biggies...
...Roadblocks. Ulster's Provincial Executive, the Protestant-Catholic coalition government led by Protestant Brian Faulkner, so far has taken no action against the strikers. But Len Murray, leader of Britain's Trades Union Congress, attempted to intervene. He flew to Belfast to lead a "back-to-work" march. Less than 300 workers joined him, and they were all pelted with garbage, eggs and tomatoes by angry Protestants. The British government increased its 15,500-man Ulster garrison by 1,000; in full battle gear, thousands of soldiers swept through Belfast, clearing the streets of the barricades. However...