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...Clearly, the Olympics should have been forgone this year in favor of the Barbaric Games. Suitable sites would have ranged from Death Valley to a moon crater. Contesting teams would have made up in color what they lacked in numbers: the Arabian Assassins, the Belfast Bombers, the Pakistan Predators, and an unattached club-the Skyjackers...
...estimate, there have been 2,200 bomb explosions, an average of more than two a day, and 541 deaths. Ulstermen have had to accustom themselves to the surrealistic world of urban guerrilla warfare; violence has become almost as common as shepherd's pie, and assassination squads move through Belfast with ease. TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers cabled these impressions of a city that has in many ways become accustomed to horror. His report...
...that few of the victims had any connection with extremist organizations-has now led to fears that a terrorist gang of assassins, possibly psychopaths with no political connections, may be at work. One gang in the Protestant area, says Paddy Devlin, an M.P. for the Falls Road area in Belfast, is led by a "mad, dangerous man who uses a knife on many of his victims." The killers operate at night, mostly on weekends, often prowling in stolen cars or listening in on taxi radios, and apparently picking their victims by chance...
...heads, in the trunks of burnt-out cars. Most have been mutilated or tortured. David McGlenaghan, a mentally retarded youth of 15, was killed when gunmen invaded his home and shot him as he lay sleeping. Harry Russell, 23, a male nurse from Carrick-Fergus on the outskirts of Belfast, was found shot through the head in a back alley, covered with torture marks and stab wounds, including a T for "Traitor" burned into his skin...
...sentence." The only immediate reaction from the I.R.A. Provisionals was a cry of defiance. The Proves' Dublin-based chief of staff, Sean MacStiofáin, bragged that I.R.A. tactics had always been to "step aside when they try to hit us with a sledgehammer," and in Belfast the Provos vowed that they would continue their struggle "in accordance with the principles of guerrilla warfare...