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Sure enough, at week's end the bloodletting resumed with what Belfast police could only describe as "a fiendish crime." Two girls struck up a conversation with four off-duty British soldiers in a bar, then led them off to an apartment in a Catholic district. One of the girls left, ostensibly to get more girls for the party. Instead, she returned with two gunmen. They forced the soldiers to lie face down on a bed, calmly raked them with bursts of submachine-gun fire, then fled with the girls. One of the soldiers was wounded; the other three...
...first "Belfast Special"-a car loaded with 175 Ibs. of gelignite time bombs-destroyed the back of the Old Bailey court building and its year-old $17 million annex and wrecked a three-story hotel and pub across the street. An hour later, 1½ miles to the west, a second car exploded in Whitehall, badly damaging the Ministry of Agriculture and the main army recruiting center. Whole walls were stripped of windows, the frames twisted and buckled. The two blasts injured 194 people, including five policemen, but miraculously caused only one death. The victim was a 60-year...
...mess hall, all were civilians, five were women and one was a Catholic priest. Both bombers were caught and convicted. Last week's terrorists seemed to fare no better. Within hours, seven men and three women were arrested at London airport as they tried to board planes for Belfast and Dublin...
...lost 98 of its own troops while trying to contain a spreading violence that has caused more than 300 civilian deaths. At the same time, the Protestant and Catholic communities have grown farther apart than ever, physically as well as ideologically. A still secret housing study of Belfast reveals that a large-scale population shift within the troubled city has taken place during the past two years. As of 1971, about 25% of the people in public housing projects lived in mixed areas; today virtually none do. More than 10,000 families have moved since 1969, half within the past...
...first they hear from their secular gods. Joan Baez (Mary-Jennifer Mitchell) takes the mike holding babe in arms: "Pull the triggers, niggers, we're with you all the way...just across the Bay...I'm the world's Madonna...I'm needed from Belfast to Bangladesh...