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When the train pulled into Dublin from Belfast one Saturday evening last month, customs men tensed. Out poured some 50 housewives, typists and shop girls flaunting hundreds of birth control devices. Members of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement, they were challenging the anti-birth control policies of the Catholic-dominated Dublin government and, in particular, the Criminal Justice Act of 1935, forbidding the import or sale of contraceptives...
Though a majority of Ireland's Catholics probably still support the church's strictures against birth control, there has been growing agitation recently to repeal or modify the law. To focus attention on the controversy, the women entrained for Belfast, where contraceptives are legal, and fanned out through the downtown shopping area to make their purchases. Back in Dublin's Connolly Station a squad of uncomfortable-looking customs men, forewarned, awaited their return. Also on hand were 150 Lib supporters waving placards reading: WOMEN ARE BABY MACHINES! and I'M ON THE PILL-ARREST...
...Meet at the Crystal Palace. The Eli-Crimson men will face Birmingham on June 16. On June 19 the team travels to Dublin to compete in the Combined Irish Universities Championships. On the 21st or 22nd it will run against the University of Northern Ireland in Belfast...
...sentimental journey creates more chill than charm. She is unsettled to find Belfast decorated for the festival of July 12-the date in 1690 of the Battle of the Boyne which "ensured the preservation of the true Protestant Christian faith against the Whore of Rome...
...minimize the growing unrest among the country's 39 million people. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Louis Kraar in Manila's Malacanang Palace, Marcos insisted: "There's not as much turbulence here, I would say, as in some Western countries, perhaps the U.S. and Belfast, Ireland." But at other times Marcos concedes that Philippine society is "sick, so sick that it must either be cured now or buried in a deluge of reforms...