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Bloody Sunday had been a shattering experience for the government of Prime Minister Edward Heath, which has belatedly come to recognize Ulster as its most intractable problem. The tragedy destroyed Downing Street's comfortable belief that it had time on its side in dealing with I.R.A. extremists, and that political initiatives could be delayed until the spring...
Boycotts. The pressures on Heath are clearly rising. Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson now believes that reunification of the two Irelands is inevitable. He has branded the Tory government's internment policy a blunder, and has called on the government either to bring to trial the 760 suspected subversives now under detention or to release them. "Internment," he charged, "has proved to be a recruiting sergeant for the I.R.A...
...Heath is also nettled by the growing hostility of the Irish Republic, which is giving increasing support to the North. With the Londonderry deaths, Britain's hopes of getting Ireland Prime Minister John Lynch's cooperation in curbing I.R.A. activities in the south virtually disappeared. Last week, reflecting the popular mood, charges were dropped in an Irish court against the leader of an eight-man Provisional I.R.A. team that allegedly fought a border skirmish with British troops last month. Boycotts of British goods have been reported throughout the Republic, and in some areas anti-British feeling is running...
...have been Edward Heath's big moment. Britain's Prime Minister and the Premiers of Ireland, Denmark and Norway had just arrived in Brussels' Palais d'Egmont to sign a Treaty of Accession to the European Common Market, thus officially marking the end of 18 months of tough negotiations. The occasion, the next-to-last formal step before the four nations become full members of the Common Market next Jan. 1-if all goes according to schedule-was being carried live on Eurovision. Then, just as Heath walked through the Palais doors, a blonde woman stepped...
...home, "Deadline Dom's" bluff was psychologically strengthened by 2,000 or so of his Laborites, who marched through the streets of Valletta, chanting slogans and stoning buildings. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Edward Heath was being urged to up the ante by two of his NATO partners, Italy and the U.S. The Nixon Administration reportedly suggested that NATO could help raise the package to $35.1 million; just before the NATO Council held a round of meetings on the Malta situation, its secretary-general, Joseph Luns, flew to London to talk to Heath...