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...Civil Aviation Authority said the British Midland Airways Boeing 737-400 was en route from London's Heathrow Airport to Belfast, Northern Ireland, when it developed engine trouble...
Ironically, it is in battle areas such as the heavily Catholic Falls Road district of West Belfast that optimists see Northern Ireland's best chance for ending the killing cycles. Despite the violence and unrelenting tension with Ulster's Protestant majority, daily life for Northern Ireland's Catholics has improved in some respects. Thanks to a $2 billion investment in public housing, for example, the proportion of Belfast dwellings judged unfit for human habitation has shrunk from 25% in 1974 to 10% today. The main beneficiaries have been Catholic residents. Building on that, British and Irish moderates hope, will eventually...
After a series of successful attacks against British forces, the outlawed I.R.A. has suffered a string of mishaps and setbacks. In the Catholic Ardoyne district of Belfast, police last week confiscated 200 pounds of explosives and predicted that the I.R.A. was planning a "horrific remainder to 1988." That followed the arrests in Waldfeucht, West Germany, of two I.R.A. suspects by a border guard who discovered weapons in their car during a random search. Waldfeucht is only 16 miles from Rheindalen, headquarters for the 67,000 British troops stationed in the Federal Republic...
Less than 72 hours earlier, in Ballygawley, 40 miles west of Belfast, another I.R.A.-triggered explosion blew up a bus filled with British servicemen returning from furloughs to duty in Northern Ireland. Eight died and 27 were injured. So far this year the I.R.A. has killed 27 British soldiers, including four in Western Europe. The total last year: three. Not since 1979, when 38 soldiers were killed in Northern Ireland, have the outlawed guerrillas been so effective...
While Thatcher made her choices, eight more bombs exploded in Belfast and Londonderry, injuring one policemen. The blasts followed the return of I.R.A. Leader Robert Russell from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland under a recent extradition treaty. Russell escaped from a Northern Ireland prison in 1983 and was arrested in Dublin a year later...