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...mention Bengalis and Punjabis) on the Indian subcontinent. These discords are at once so enduring, so volatile and so impassioned that they sometimes make the quarrels among the superpowers seem rational and readily soluble. Indeed, in a week when the communiqués of conflict bore datelines like Belfast, Beirut and Dacca, it is noteworthy that the Big Four were inching closer to a settlement of the Berlin problem, a hangover from the days of World...
...increase-caused in most cases by the militant "provisional" wing of the old I.R.A., which favors violent means to achieve union with the Irish Republic. One of the ugliest incidents was the coldblooded murder-still unsolved-of three young off-duty British soldiers, who were lured from a Belfast pub last March and shot on a lonely road...
Last week's violence was set off by a tragic accident and the harsh action of a weak government. When a small delivery truck backfired at a traffic light in Belfast, a nervous British sentry apparently mistook the sound for a sniper's shot and gunned down the driver, a Catholic father of six. Catholic passions quickly rose to the flash point, and Protestant right-wingers demanded that British troops "take the gloves...
Psychopathic Revulsion. At dawn one morning last week, soldiers began hammering on doors in Belfast, Londonderry and half a dozen smaller towns in Ulster, rounding up some 300 suspected members of the I.R.A. "We are acting," said Faulkner, "not to suppress freedom but to allow the overwhelming mass of our people to enjoy freedom from fear of the gunman, of the nightly explosion, of kangaroo courts and all the apparatus of terrorism." Then in a mild concession to Catholic opinion, he slapped a six-month ban on all parades, including the potentially explosive Apprentice Boys of Derry march scheduled...
Sunny skies and temperatures in the 70' scare forecast for the meet, which is the first of four on the squad's European tour. The Harvard-Yale team will also face the University of Birmingham and two teams of Irish athletes in Dublin and Belfast...