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SIMPLE MINDS: STREET FIGHTING YEARS (A&M). Superb rock with a big thematic reach and the rhythm to boost its high ambitions. Belfast Child, a heart-torn vision of the Irish troubles, is more evocative, and more devastating, than a hundred editorials or a thousand speeches...
...Government itself has on occasion declined to extradite some suspected terrorists. In 1981 it refused to hand over Desmond Mackin, an I.R.A. member, to Britain, and it is now reviewing the case of I.R.A. fighter Joseph Doherty, an escapee from a Belfast prison...
...homogenize characters while removing their interesting elements. Their actions, however, are hard to ignore. A daring raid on a Boston National Guard armory nets the boyos a cache of M-16s, 40-mm grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and a wardrobe of flak jackets. Getting this arsenal to Belfast involves the cooperation of members of Boston's Irish underground and I.R.A. sympathizers in the U.S. Customs Department...
Patrick Finucane and his family had just settled around the table for Sunday dinner in their North Belfast home, when three men slipped in through the unlocked front door. One of the intruders, wielding an automatic, opened fire on Finucane, instantly killing the 38-year-old Catholic lawyer. His wife, who was wounded in the ankle, and three children watched the bloody scene in horror as the gang escaped in a commandeered taxi...
...often the press stays in London or in Belfast if they come to Ireland at all," said Thomas...