Word: iras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several B.U. professors besides Levin also joined the demonstration. When the crowd briefly considered more militant action, historian Howard Zinn joined Ira D. Helfand '71, a former Harvard student required to withdraw in 1971, in speaking against...
...American American support for the glorious struggle taking place over there. Intercut with this is a sobering interview of a Catholic couple, he having gotten out of Long Kesh internment camp a little while ago, and she crippled permanently by a British Army soldier's bullets. That the Provisional IRA is supported almost totally by contributions from Americans is no secret, but there is nevertheless a severe discrepancy between the fancy parade image and the actual realities of living in Belfast and Derry...
...obvious; the hate, the bigotry and the small-mindedness are all there but that is unfortunately all that is shown. Nowhere is there a hint of why these people feel the way they do given. Notoriously absent in the film is any sort of indepth discussion with actual Provisional IRA members, particularly those on the lower rungs of the power...
Ophuls apparently saw that and yet he seems merely content to state the immediacy, rather than give us some idea of what it is about. That is what is disturbing about the omission of serious interviews with actual Provisional IRA and UDA volunteers. Why do these people fight? Do they have the support of their communities? Are they noble knights of a cause or are they merely hoods, and do their neighbors perceive them as such? These are important questions and Ophuls does not address them. He only touches on them in a confused and inconclusive discussion with a Catholic...
Reaction to the law is enthusiastic. "This is a major breakthrough," says Dr. Ira Greifer, the National Kidney Foundation's medical director. Though firm figures are elusive, it was estimated that more than 8,000 people would die in 1972 for want of treatment that medical technology could supply. Presumably, this figure will drop substantially after the law takes effect...