Word: creggan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operation, Whitelaw warned the populace that "substantial activity by the security forces" was imminent, and advised Ulstermen to stay off the streets. At 4 o'clock the next morning, as a drizzling rain fell, the first armored columns broke into Londonderry's Bogside and Creggan districts-which were known to Catholics as "Free Derry." Residents peered from behind blinds as troops with their faces blackened for camouflage in the darkness edged along the walls of the buildings, painstakingly scanning rooftops for snipers. On a plateau above the city, an I.R.A. siren began to wail-and continued until troops...
...roared up narrow Stanley Walk to a green-doored house that had served as the Provisionals' local headquarters. The troops ransacked the house and tore up the floorboards, but found only a radio, some maps and part of a Browning machine gun. The Proves had vanished. In the Creggan estate, weapons were found in hedges or buried, sometimes unwrapped, in the ground-obviously abandoned in haste. Whitelaw himself had broadcast the warning that allowed I.R.A. gunmen to escape, and received some criticism for doing so; but he made no apologies. "Reducing civilian casualties to an absolute minimum," he declared...
...more lives and included twelve more bombings). To reinforce its new policy, the British government sent an additional 4,000 troops to Northern Ireland, boosting its total force there to a record 21,000. Their first mission may well be an attack on I.R.A. sanctuaries in Londonderry's Creggan and Bogside districts...
...here, we could look after ourselves." The U.D.A.'s objectives, its leaders claim, are political, not military. They want to pressure Whitelaw by challenging British authority in the U.D.A.'s barricaded areas until he orders British troops to clean out the I.R.A. sanctuaries of Bogside and Creggan in so-called "Free Derry." As a slap at the British, the U.D.A. has set up free zones of its own. A sign in the U.D.A.-controlled area of Belfast reads...
...Ominously, on the other side, militant Protestants were building up toward a potentially explosive demonstration this week. The right-wing Ulster Vanguard planned a protest march in Londonderry to demand that the British army and Ulster police reassert their rule over the barricaded "no go" areas of Bogside and Creggan, where I.R.A. gunmen have been roam ing at will...