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...MORRISON & THE CHIEFTAINS: IRISH HEARTBEAT (Mercury). Traditional Irish tunes given a most unconventional treatment by some of Ireland's most gifted instrumentalists and by a great rocker, who invests each song with his own wild Celtic heart...
Responsibility was quickly claimed by the outlawed Irish Republican Army. It was the British army's worst loss of life in Northern Ireland in nearly six years, and the I.R.A.'s bloodiest attack since last November, when a bombing at a war memorial ceremony in Enniskillen claimed the lives of eleven civilians. In Lisburn, I.R.A. operatives evidently managed to attach a bomb to the van's chassis while it was parked, unattended, during the races. In London, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called the attack a "terrible atrocity" but rejected calls in Parliament for the internment without trial of suspected terrorists...
Another custody matter, this one involving the U.S., moved a step closer to resolution in Britain's favor. Attorney General Edwin Meese ordered that Joseph Doherty, a Northern Ireland fugitive convicted of killing a British army captain in 1980, should be deported to Britain rather than Ireland. Doherty, who entered the U.S. illegally in 1982 after escaping from a Belfast jail, faces life behind bars if he is sent to Britain. Meese's action was the Reagan Administration's latest effort to sidestep federal court decisions holding that Doherty is exempt from extradition to Britain on the grounds that...
...special party conference, complete with delegate fights and live media coverage, stirs genuine political passions and could advance Gorbachev' s reforms. -- Writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko denounces the Russian tradition of servile patience. -- An I. R. A. bomb kills six British soldiers in Northern Ireland. -- Israel orders deportation of a Palestinian- American gadfly...
British and West German officials began exchanging information on the most violent offenders months ago in preparation for last week's eight-nation tournament. After the first match between England and Ireland in Stuttgart on June 12, which Ireland won 1-0, some 20 English thugs beat up a 22-year-old Egyptian resident, slicing him with a broken bottle. Before the evening ended, 107 people, most of them English, had been detained by police for drunkenness and fighting...