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...past ten years it has expelled no fewer than 27 Russian diplomats on spying charges. But last week, reinforced with the testimony of a defecting Soviet agent who brought as a dowry a list of his country's spies in Britain, the government of Prime Minister Edward Heath ordered the largest mass expulsion of diplomats in modern history. In all, it expelled 90 Soviet officials and barred the re-entry of 15 others...
...guess. An immediate ban on all privately held firearms in Ulster is one of the twelve points advocated by British Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson. The Labor opposition in Westminster has also been demanding that the government recall Parliament for an emergency debate on Northern Ireland. Last week Ted Heath responded by announcing a two-day parliamentary session later this month-additional evidence that he is relying less and less on the Ulster government in seeking a solution...
...said John Lynch, Prime Minister of the Irish Republic, after two days of emergency talks with British Prime Minister Edward Heath. Held at Chequers, the country residence of Britain's Prime Ministers, the meetings dealt with the current civil strife in the British province of Northern Ireland. The talks did nothing to bring Ireland's Catholic South and Protestant North any closer to union. But they did produce an unprecedented concession from the British government: an invitation to the Irish Prime Minister to participate in tripartite discussions with Heath and Northern Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Faulkner...
...only hopeful news during a week of rising anxiety was the announcement that Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath would meet with the Irish Republic's Prime Minister John Lynch in London this week. Lynch is expected to argue that Ulster is "ungovernable" under the present system, and to ask Heath to reconsider the Northern Ireland government's internment policy, which set UPI off the recent round of violence. Heath in turn will undoubtedly solicit Lynch's help in shutting off the flow of I.R.A. terrorists across the Eire-Ulster border-an ultimately impossible...
...Heath's icy reply to Jack Lynch hardly seemed designed to encourage the Dublin government to cut off the illegal supply of arms and men that seeps across the 200-mile border between south and north. But it may have served to strengthen Ulster's Prime Minister Faulkner, who has become increasingly vulnerable to the demands of his party's hardliners. As former Home Minister William Craig told TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast: "If Faulkner seems to make any more gestures of compromise, it'll bring the roof right down...