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Three nights after Whitelaw's appearance in Parliament, the worst fighting of the guerrilla war broke out. I.R.A. terrorists stepped up their sniping attack on the army outpost in Belfast's Lenadoon Avenue by rolling a bulldozer laden with a 50-lb. gelignite bomb toward the sandbagged building. Though I.R.A. men fired on the rolling bomb, only a portion of the gel ignite exploded. The army responded by going on the offensive against I.R.A. strongholds, dispatching 700 troops to the Lenadoon Avenue area alone. Soon firing flared up in half a dozen Catholic areas, perhaps to divert troops...
...Self-proclaimed saviors of Ulster's "Prods," they carry clubs and boast of having an arsenal of automatic pistols, rifles, submachine guns and grenades. As a group, U.D.A. members are mostly young and working-class; many are British army veterans, others graduates of the tough Tartan gangs. From Belfast, TIME'S London Bureau Chief Curtis Prendergast filed this report on their activities...
...Company headquarters, a two-way radio network keeps the patrols in contact, while a clandestine broadcasting station-named Radio Free Nick, for nearby Nixon Street-keeps up local residents' morale with pop-record requests and Orange marching songs. ¶Company is one of eleven U.D.A. units in Belfast. The U.D.A. claims it has 37,000 men in Northern Ireland, and the number may eventually swell to 60,000. For all its size, the U.D.A. has not displayed its weaponry openly in the streets yet, although 16 men (not yet officially identified as U.D.A.) were arrested while driving around...
...U.D.A.'s barricaded areas until he orders British troops to clean out the I.R.A. sanctuaries of Bogside and Creggan in so-called "Free Derry." As a slap at the British, the U.D.A. has set up free zones of its own. A sign in the U.D.A.-controlled area of Belfast reads...
...BELFAST, Ire.--Britain offered to withdraw its troops from Belfast's battle-ravaged Lenadoon area Monday if Roman Catholics persuaded Irish Republican Army gunmen...