Word: belfasts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Northern Ireland on the verge of a grim and unwanted millenary last week. The fatalities raised the total number of people killed in the smoldering civil conflict since 1969 to 998. In addition, 28 were wounded in bombings by extremists of the Provisional Irish Republican Army that devastated Belfast and three other towns. The violence further threatened already fading hopes that a Catholic-Protestant coalition Cabinet inaugurated on Jan. 1 would finally bring to a halt the unrelenting agony of the province. In the three months since the coalition took over, there have been more than 60 violent deaths...
...latest troubles began when a 500-lb. bomb hidden in an abandoned truck exploded, shattering a large part of Royal Avenue, Belfast's main shopping thoroughfare. What particularly annoyed shopkeepers was that the Provos had twice within three weeks slipped through military checkpoints to plant smaller bombs in the same area. Later, in the seaside resort town of Bangor, Proves eluded door guards to set off fire bombs in four stores, causing at least $12 million in damages. Bombs planted in cars also went off in Lisburn and Antrim, leaving sections of these towns looking like World...
John Hamilton, 46, was a Belfast Protestant working among fellow Protestants in the hard, exclusive domain of the shipyards. The father of one child, he lived a politically uneventful life with his wife Lily, who happens to be a Catholic. Two of their relatives were also stained by mixed marriages. That, apparently, was more than enough to make Hamilton and the rest of his family suspect...
...British government study released in February concluded that since 1969 such intimidation, mainly directed against Catholics, has caused at least 60,000 of Greater Belfast's 500,000 people to abandon their homes for safer -meaning segregated-neighborhoods. Even Belfast's housing authorities now recommend that "stray" families be moved away from "alien" neighborhoods. The Hamiltons and McCartans have had more than enough. "We're all thinking of leaving," said a male survivor at the funeral of John Hamilton...
...Chief Executive of Ulster's new coalition government, militant Unionist members voted to oppose the Council of Ireland agreement worked out last month between Northern Ireland, Britain and the Irish Republic. The Unionists' Protestant hard-liners viewed the agreement, which calls for regular consultations between Belfast and Dublin, as the first step toward merger with the predominantly Catholic South...