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...BELFAST--Irish Republican Army gunmen returned to the attack yesterday, abandoning their 13-day cease-fire...
Warned recently that he faced imminent assassination, Whitelaw laughed off the threats. "I enjoy my golf too much to be killed," said the recent (1969-70) captain of St. Andrews' Royal and Ancient Golf Club. Nevertheless, for protection or convenience, Whitelaw customarily uses the R.A.F. for flights between Belfast and London and weekends with his wife Cecilia. He also uses military helicopters for flights around Ireland to visit troops or inspect trouble areas...
...years, the tentative truce could of course easily be broken. Just how easily was shown at week's end. Three days before the ceasefire, three British soldiers were killed when their Jeep ran over a land mine, and a Catholic youth was shot dead by a sniper in Belfast...
Policy of Reconciliation. The Provisionals, who had called for the ceasefire only after hot debate at a secret meeting in the hills just south of the border, might not be able to control their hard-lining Belfast units. On the other side, Northern Ireland's Protestant majority viewed the cease-fire with instant suspicion, fearing that it was the result of a secret deal. Leaders of the Protestant Ulster Defense Association warned: "Now we go on the offensive. If there is any question of killers being allowed to remain at liberty, we will go in and get them...
Whitelaw's first test came when leaders of the paramilitary U.D.A., wearing masks to hide their identity, delivered an ultimatum: either he invaded the I.R.A. sanctuaries in Londonderry's barricaded "nogo" areas, or they would turn Belfast into a massive no-go area of their...