Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither police nor Army had much difficulty in identifying the holdup men as members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, the band of Eire patriot-terrorists whose program is to sever the few remaining ties with Great Britain and unite Northern Ireland with Eire. Last week 16 of those accused of the robbery were caught, and about 700,000 rounds of the missing ammunition were found in various hideouts. Eire's Army and police were scared that the I. R. A., its fire power thus reinforced, would attempt a coup d'état either in Eire...