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...armed "third force"-in addition to the British army and the overwhelmingly Protestant but unarmed Royal Ulster Constabulary-to fight the terrorists of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. One afternoon, in Ulster's largest hard-hat demonstration to date, over 20,000 Protestant workers assembled in a Belfast park to hear calls for "lead bullets, not rubber ones"-a reference to the rubber bullets the British soldiers use in trying to restore order. The crowd cheered wildly as the Rev. Ian Paisley, the province's Protestant firebrand, flailed the air and announced formation among Protestant loyalists...
...debate in Commons-or even Faulkner's hint at week's end of other concessions-might not be in time to reverse the upward spiral of violence. "No night passes without sporadic bombings and snipings, no day without bomb scares," TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast reported from Belfast last week. "On downtown streets there are almost as many armored cars as city buses. Steel mesh is going up over more and more shop windows...
...Prime Minister. While he was a legal clerk, he met his future wife, then a civil service secretary. They are childless, but his affection for children is deep; when he heard of the death of 18-month-old Angela Gallagher, hit by a sniper's ricochet in Belfast, he wept openly. A practicing Catholic, the blue-eyed, graying Lynch wears modish sideburns and hair long enough to curl around his collar...
...they tell you the Irish people are behind them. I was elected with mainly a working-class vote. I have taken a clear anti-I.R.A. position, and people come up to me in the streets and tell me they agree. 1 have never heard anyone speak of the Belfast bombings with anything but horror and condemnation. The I.R.A. are not helping the cause of civil rights, nor have they any right to talk of civil rights since they have denied so many of their fellow citizens the elementary civil right of life itself...
...terrorism was presumed to be the work of the militant "provisional" wing of the Irish Republican Army. Last week its estimated 200 guerrilla members in Belfast held the city of 400,000 virtually at ransom. Inevitably, the Protestant backlash began to take shape. The Ulster Special Constabulary Association, a body of 10,000 former members of the Protestant B Special police that were disbanded last year, held a mass meeting and called for the government to rearm them to protect Protestants...