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...only thing they haven't done yet is eat the dead." So said a Belfast policeman last week, shortly before Ulstermen went to the polls in Northern Ireland to choose members of a provincial Assembly for the first time in four years. The voters were vividly reminded that sectarian enmity forces them to live in an armed camp. In expectation of an outbreak of terrorism, all leaves for policemen were canceled...
There was a time when a June election in Ulster would have been a kind of summer festival, exuberant with fifes and drums and oratorical flourish. The long months of gunfire and explosions have made that impossible. The streets of Belfast are devoid of parades and rallies; they are patrolled by British armored troop carriers, the soldiers alert for snipers. Voters generally remain in the relative safety of their homes, watching the campaign on television...
...Protestant-dominated Unionist Party, led by former Prime Minister Brian Faulkner, swept the Protestant vote. Most Catholics supported the Social, Democratic and Labor Party (S.D.L.P.). Most disappointing, the moderate and non-sectarian Alliance Party finished a poor fourth, trailing even candidates of the Protestant extremists. Noted the Belfast Telegraph: "The people have spoken and their terms are uncompromising...
...statistics of terror are on my side in this election," says David Bleakley, a Belfast political science professor who is running for a Labour seat in the assembly. "I will simply be saying: Have you had enough? You've killed 800, you've maimed 10,000. Surely you've made your point by now if you ever...
Perhaps an even more important catch was Joe Cahill, 53, onetime Provo chief in Belfast and No. 2 man in the movement, who had dropped out of sight following the imprisonment of Provo Chief Sean MacStiofáin. Cahill and five other smugglers were unloading the arms from the coaster Claudia onto a fishing smack when the Irish warships fired warning shots across the Claudia's bow and then sent out a boarding party. All six Provos were later charged with conspiracy to import arms unlawfully; Cahill and two others were held without bail...