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...Belfast and Londonderry, barbed wire, sandbag bunkers and helmeted troops have been fixtures since Northern Ireland's ancient religious antagonisms flared into violence last summer. In Calcutta and its industrial satellites police have been loath to venture off major arteries since Maoist Naxalites stabbed three of their colleagues to death in dark alleys as part of a deliberate campaign of terror. Heavy guard details have trailed diplomats in Montevideo since July, when Uruguay's Tupamaro guerrillas shed their Robin Hood image and wantonly murdered a political hostage. Canada was still tense following the brutal murder by fanatic Quebec separatists...
Fergus shows him at the top of his form. The title hero-like the obviously prototyping author ego behind him-is Belfast-born, Hollywood-drawn and Malibu-quartered. The fictional Fergus is a novelist in the throes of divorce and debilitating screen work. He is also hopelessly involved with a young, free-spirited mistress. So far, so familiar as a portrait of the built-in plights that afflict writer-in-California residence...
...BOMBS: To top off a bad week, a young man later identified as a construction worker from Northern Ireland stood up in the visitors' gallery of the House of Commons, shouted something about Belfast, where British troops have used tear gas to quell rioting Catholics and Protestants, and hurled two canisters onto the floor. The bombs rolled and bounced around, spewing dense clouds of tear gas and setting off two small fires. Members and visitors dashed retching from the floor, strewing papers right and left. Afterward, nobody seemed able to agree on just what the man had said. Some...
...from posts as far away as Malta and West Germany and 7,000 police. As one senior army officer put it, "a sparrow could not have coughed without being arrested." Though more than 100,000 Protestants donned bowler hats for Orange Order parades in such potential trouble spots as Belfast, Londonderry, Maghera and Armagh, there was no violence. The only casualties of the week came three days later, when a bomb planted in a Belfast bank by an unknown terrorist hurt 31 bystanders...
...Orange Order parades approached, Belfast's two warring tribes prepared for what is not only a national holiday but also an annual excuse - as if any were needed - for mindless bloodshed. In the Protestant working-class areas, houses and store fronts sported Union Jacks, freshly painted shields bearing the up raised Red Hand of Ulster and tacky portraits of "King Billy" of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne. On DESMOND BALL, a lean, tough machinery repairman who seems older than his 22 years, lives at the Protestant edge of the "peace line." Ball and his wife Maureen...