Word: devlin
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Paisley's political theatrics occurred as terrorist attacks were continuing. Following a near fatal Protestant assassination at tempt against Catholic Activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband, and the I.R.A. killings of Protestant No table Sir Norman Stronge and his son, an I.R.A. commando scuttled a British col lier off the coast. At the Maze Prison out side Belfast, meanwhile, I.R.A. prisoners announced another hunger strike to begin March 1, similar to the 53-day protest last year that nearly cost the lives of seven prisoners before it was called...
...Provisional I.R.A. quickly claimed responsibility for the killings. A spokesman in Belfast said that the attack was a reprisal for a series of "assassinations and murder attacks on nationalist people." Specifically, the killings were believed to be in revenge for the shooting, a week earlier, of Catholic Activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband Michael. Devlin and her husband survived, but were reported still in serious condition in a Belfast hospital...
...round of bloodshed and sectarian violence. In sympathy, three women convicts at a prison in Armagh joined the fast, and thousands of supporters staged protest marches and torchlight rallies in Catholic districts of Belfast and Londonderry. On Saturday, nearly 25,000 demonstrators, led by Catholic Activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, a onetime member of Britain's Parliament from Ulster, turned out for a march in Dublin. But the British government remained unmoved. "If those people continue with their hunger strike, it will have no effect whatsoever," said Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. "It will just take their own lives, for which...
When the harriers finally returned to Cambridge, 12 hours later, exhausted, senior harrier Maureen Devlin summed up the day's events. "It was a beautiful day, a really nice course. We had a good day too, they just run faster," she said...
...Pappy is always there," Maureen Devlin, who was the 10th finisher for the harriers Saturday, said yesterday...