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Before setting out on a pub crawl through Belfast with two young friends from Scotland's Royal Highland Fusiliers, Dougald McCaughy, 23, dutifully telephoned his aunt in Glasgow. "Is everything quiet?" she asked anxiously. He laughed. "Are you kidding?" Three hours later Dougald's aunt received another call from Belfast. On a narrow roadway on Squires Hill, four miles west of Ulster's capital, a pair of schoolboys had found the bodies of Dougald and his two friends, brothers Joseph, 18, and John McCaig, 17. The corpses were heaped grotesquely on top of one another...
...never realized that human beings could work this hard," says James Mc-Alister, 22, a Belfast-born roustabout who fled the religious wars of home. "At 6 in the morning, it's dark, wet and cold. You begin sweeping the water from the deck that accumulates from the night's mists. The deck must be kept dry so that the men don't slip and fall. Everything is steel, so a fall can really do damage. Whatever you do, you get filthy. Your hands, your face, your shoes, trousers and shirt become smeared with grease, rust...
Still, some were badly injured or killed. A 14-year-old Catholic boy in Belfast's Ballymurphy district had his hand blown off as he was about to hurl a gelignite bomb at a British patrol. A five-year-old Catholic girl, Denise Dickson, was killed in the New Lodge Road district when a British scout car ran her over while chasing a gang of youths...
...least ten lives were lost in Northern Ireland last week. Five men were killed when their Land Rover struck a terrorist mine in County Tyrone. On the Ulster-Eire border, a bomb destroyed a customs post. Belfast suffered the greatest destruction. There have been more than 160 bombings during the past year; one suspected fire-bombing lit up the night sky as nearly $4.8 million worth of cut timber burned in a lumberyard...
...week's end, as Prime Minister lames Chichester-Clark flew to London to discuss the deteriorating situation with Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, Belfast was rapidly becoming one great anarchic slum. The "terrible beauty" that, in the words of Poet William Butler Yeats, characterized the 1916 Easter Rebellion has become in 1971 a terror without beauty...