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...finally pushed to his decision by the murder of three Scots soldiers two weeks ago (TIME, March 22). Protestants reacted to the deaths with anti-government demonstrations. Chichester-Clark responded by flying to London to request additional troops and to ask that soldiers occupy Catholic neighbor hoods in Belfast and Londonderry to guarantee order. Prime Minister Edward Heath gave Chichester-Clark only 1,300 more men and refused to allow the army to take the kind of stern measures that might have appeased the Irish Prime Minister's right-wing critics...
Urban violence is easily measured in terms of those killed or wounded. But what of the impact of such disruptions on the psyche? Two Belfast psychiatrists, themselves caught in the swirl of the city's Catholic-Protestant riots during 1969, wondered how the mental health of those living near and around the barricades had been affected. In two different papers published in the current British Journal of Psychiatry, they report that, with some exceptions, there was little evidence that the troubles had led to an increase in serious psychological disturbances...
Revealing Burrs. Police believe that the young Scots, unarmed, dressed in civvies and carrying five-hour passes from their battalion, had decided to down a few pints in Kellys Cellars, a picturesque Belfast pub that dates from the early 1800s and is frequented by Catholic Republicans. Even out of uniform, the young soldiers would have easily tipped their identities with their burrs. Belfast Catholics hate the Scottish troops even more than the English because the Scots have been in the vanguard of many of the arms searches in Catholic homes. Besides, they are predominantly Protestant. The three fusiliers were probably...
...deaths occurred in the last six weeks in armed clashes with rioters. But 53 people have been killed since August 1969, and a growing number of the deaths are attributed by police to internecine warfare in a power struggle between the rival I.R.A. factions. Earlier last week a Belfast youth was shot dead and three others seriously wounded in a midnight gun battle when the Provos fought I.R.A. regulars near Catholic Falls Road. Twelve hours later, a milkman believed to be connected with the Provos was shot in the face, presumably by an official death squad, while sitting...
Risks of Revenge. In both Britain and Ulster, a wave of revulsion followed the murders. Some 3,000 Protestant and Catholic shipyard workers united to march through Belfast's streets in an expression of outrage at the crime and sympathy for the slain Scots' families. Ulster's Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark, trying to cool off Protestant hotheads bent on reprisals, warned of "the appalling consequences of murder and outrage, the risks of revenge and the chain reaction that follows...