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...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...
After two more quick Crimson markers to open the next period--including Bob Burr's first of the season--the Bulldogs pumped in two of their own to interrupt the Crimson burst. Attack Mike Devlin picked up the assists on both goals before Harvard defenseman Haywood Miller moved in to handcuff the Yale feed...