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...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...
...Catholics who were being held without trial in prison camps under Ulster's Special Powers Act, and instructed British troops to avoid incidents in Catholic areas. He also allowed to remain standing the barricades set up and manned by the I.R.A. in the "no go" Catholic Bogside and Creggan districts of Londonderry...
...leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, judged that "a solution can be negotiated now without shedding another drop of Irish blood." Derry units of the I.R.A. felt compelled to call a "Tell-the-People" meeting to explain their policies to the residents of barricaded Bogside and Creggan...
...town, all shops were closed, and from almost every window in the Bogside and Creggan ghettos black flags were displayed. In Stewartstown, some 50 miles away, a Catholic pub that stayed open was bombed and one man was killed - thereby raising to 234 the number of dead in Ulster since the summer of 1969. Mourners also marked the spots where the victims had fallen and died with flags, crude crosses and rosaries...