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Aided in part by information from Catholics who are fed up with the terrorists' bombing attacks, the government of Prime Minister Brian Faulkner has stepped up the internment campaign. So far this year, 250 suspects have been rounded up, as many as had been detained in the previous three months. Among the new prisoners are three key officers of the Belfast I.R.A. command. There are now so many suspects in detention that Britain recently opened up a fourth camp near the Irish Republic border, and British officers are confident that they are gradually winning the war against the gunmen...
...British soldier was also killed by a mine on border patrol. His death was the 214th since British troops arrived in Ulster in 1969 to try to keep the peace between Ulster's quarreling Protestants and Catholics. The continuation of terror makes it less and less likely that Faulkner's Stormont government can ever find a political solution for Northern Ireland...
Policy of Terror. Last week Faulkner took the calculated risk of ordering a one-year continuation of a ban on all public demonstrations. In Ulster, parades are both extremely popular and the cause of sectarian clashes. The decree infuriated Catholics-at week's end they staged two protest marches halted by troops using tear gas -as well as Protestants. "The government has capitulated to the policy of terror!" cried the Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of many militant Protestants. "The I.R.A. has won." There were some suggestions that the I.R.A., for its part, might try a new tactic by organizing...
...been welcomed in principle by Prime Minister Heath's government. Even in Ulster, the Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of the Protestant militants, has declared that traditional Unionism is finished, and formed his own breakaway group, the Democratic Unionist Party, without ties to the Orange Order. Ulster Prime Minister Faulkner has intimated that Paisley has been talking with Provisional leaders, and that the army is now beginning to see the Paisleyites "as people with whom some sort of a deal might be done...
Stake in the Future. Fear of a Westminster "sellout" now dominates the Protestant community, despite assurances by Faulkner and Heath. MacStiofáin contends that these fears are unjustified: "We have no interest in treating the Protestants harshly. We don't want them to leave the North. We want them to accept that they are Irish, that they have a stake in the future of this country...