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Only two weeks after his arrival in Ireland, Ewart-Biggs and two aides set out from his suburban residence for Dublin last week, in a blue Jaguar followed by two Irish police cars. As the Jaguar crossed a sewer 150 yds. from the house, two men lurking in nearby bushes detonated by remote control about 500 Ibs. of explosives hidden inside. The blast gouged a crater 10 ft. deep, hurled the Jaguar into the air and sent stones flying for several hundred yards. The ambassador and a secretary, Judith Cook, 25, were killed. Gravely injured were the chauffeur and Brian...
Prime Target. Some police officials speculated that the prime target of the terrorists, whoever they were, might have been Ewart-Biggs' visitor, Cubbon. As Britain's top civil servant in Northern Ireland, he had been participating in exploratory and unproductive peace talks between Catholic and Protestant leaders in Belfast. Since efforts to set up a Catholic-Protestant coalition government in Ulster collapsed last January, the Labor government's "policy" in Northern Ireland has been to have Britain's 14,500 troops there simply lean on their rifles and let the two sides continue to slug...
Impressive Break. The Ewart-B|ggs killing was a dramatic demonstration of how easily the fires of the North can leap to the South. The Dublin government has stepped up patrols along its border with Ulster. Still, local support for the I.R.A., though waning in the South, makes control difficult. A Provo-organized march last April, banned by the Dublin government, attracted 10,000 marchers in the capital's streets. This month several jailed I.R. A. members staged an impressive break from a Dublin prison...
Died. Christopher Ewart-Biggs, 54, twelve days after taking up his post as British Ambassador to Ireland; when a terrorist bomb exploded beneath his car; near Dublin (see THE WORLD...