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...opposed violence and criticized the guerrilla tactics of the army's more militant Provisionals. But the Provisionals, as it happens, were also busy. Two days after Barnhill's death, seven raids were made on the homes of wealthy Protestants-most of them magistrates or city councilors-in Belfast's Malone Road district, hitherto untouched by terrorism. Two houses were wrecked by bombs, the husband of Edith Taggart, Ulster's only woman Senator, was struck with a pistol butt, the wife of a city councilor was slightly wounded by gunshot, and a reserve army sergeant was shot...
Familiar Incidents. The week featured other familiar incidents of violence on both sides. A 22-year-old British soldier was killed in Belfast by a sniper; Catholic gunmen even sprayed bullets at the ambulance that carried him to a hospital. I.R.A. guerrillas blasted a Belfast printing factory with a gelignite bomb and planted fire bombs in two shops and a customs office, in incidents similar to one the week before that killed four people, including a 17-month-old boy when a furniture store was blown up. At Coalisland, a gloomy Catholic town 40 miles west of Belfast, members...
Gift Dynamite. The day after McGurk's was demolished, a six-story carpet and linoleum factory in East Belfast went up in flames. The fire, started by bombs set by two armed raiders, caused $2.5 million in damage and cost 600 people their jobs...
...next day, an explosion ripped a festively lit shopping arcade in Belfast, and flying glass wounded 21 people. At week's end, a bomb blew up in a crowded furniture store on Belfast's Protestant Shankill Road, killing four people. Bombs also went off in three other stores and offices, bringing to more than 1,000 the total number of explosions set in Ulster this year, most of them since the British began interning suspected I.R.A. terrorists without trial last August...
Though the British army has increased its patrols in midtown Belfast, shoppers laden with packages pose a serious problem: the holiday wrapping paper could hide gelignite. Merchants have boarded up store windows but keep their shops open, hoping that some buyers will continue to venture into the city's center...