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...that the Proves had forced Whitelaw's hand by their savage bombing attacks on "Bloody Friday." They were also angered by the explosion of three bombs -believed set by the Provos, despite their denials-at the tiny village of Claudy last week that took seven lives. Even the Dublin government endorsed Whitelaw's action. Said the Irish Republic's Prime Minister Jack Lynch: "Bombers and gunmen must be eliminated from the scene...
...back where you bloody well belong?" The Bogside Community Association charged that residents were being "interned" in their own neighborhoods, and demanded to know "the duration of our sentence." The only immediate reaction from the I.R.A. Provisionals was a cry of defiance. The Proves' Dublin-based chief of staff, Sean MacStiofáin, bragged that I.R.A. tactics had always been to "step aside when they try to hit us with a sledgehammer," and in Belfast the Provos vowed that they would continue their struggle "in accordance with the principles of guerrilla warfare...
This stylish thriller is yet another stop on the Greene-Ambler-Deighton-LeCarre circuit. In his first novel, Dublin-born Joseph Hone follows the impeccable existentialist formula in which the spy is the victim, doomed to suffer betrayals and failures as remote as the stars from his control...
...bombings. But one seemingly disillusioned Provo sympathizer retorted that the army could not possibly have coped with so many bomb warnings in a single afternoon. Many Ulstermen believed that Twomey's motive in ordering the bombing attack, which killed nine and wounded 130, had been to prevent his Dublin-based superiors from putting out any more peace feelers...
...outweighed by the clinkers. Of what value is a column of youth notes, written by a Harvard sophomore, that says nothing new, significant or even witty about youth? Or a "Calendar of Global Events" that alerts readers to affairs such as the Third International Conference on Dielectric Liquids in Dublin next month? Columnist Amory ends his first World column this way: "Satisfaction guaranteed, we've always said, or your product back." On the basis of the first issue, the temptation is to ask where one gets in line...