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...brilliantly sunny, almost windless day at the little fishing village of Mullaghmore overlooking Donegal Bay on Ireland's northwest coast. Lord Louis Mountbatten, 79, the distinguished war hero, diplomat and elder statesman of Britain's royal family, was summering as usual at his turreted stone castle, Classiebawn, in the green hills. Dressed in faded corduroys and rough pullover, Mountbatten was a beloved and folksy figure around Mullaghmore, where he had vacationed for 35 years. He could sometimes be seen standing knee-deep in the waters offshore, fishing for shrimp, and occasionally took local children for a ride...
...attention of the English people the continuing occupation of our country." The assassination of Lord Mountbatten, a patriarchal figure who seemed as much a part of the public life of Britain as Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, sent shock waves of anguish and indignation through Britain and Ireland. "His life ran like a golden thread of inspiration and service to his country throughout this century," said Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as she joined the nation in mourning. In India, where Mountbatten had helped fashion the subcontinent's independence in 1947, a week of mourning was declared...
Ironically, one question of British policy in which Mountbatten had never played a role was that of Northern Ireland. Yet his death, following hard on the tenth anniversary of Britain's dispatch of troops to the province, inevitably threw into grave relief the unremitting tragedy of Britain's most enduring dilemma. Simply because of his stature, Mountbatten had been considered an obvious if illogical target for the I.R.A. Mullaghmore is only twelve miles from Northern Ireland, near an area known as a refuge for Provos fleeing across the border. Thus local police kept watch on the castle...
...weakness of the I.R.A's own policy was apparent from its statement claiming responsibility for Mountbatten's murder; the language constituted a veiled admission that the almost daily round of violence in Northern Ireland has made little headway on British public opinion, despite nearly 2,000 dead and 21,000 injured in the past ten years. Roy Mason, Ulster Secretary in the last Labor government, said he believed Mountbatten's death signaled a frightening new dimension in terrorism, that is, competition among the assassins. "After the Irish National Liberation Army killed M.P. Airey Neave [last March]," said...
...Irish," he says. "Of course, I'm qualified," he hastily adds, but he matter-of-factly explains that the Democratic Party needed an Irish judge to "balance the ethnic makeup" of their judicial slate. One of 16 children of an I.R.A. member who fled Ireland for the U.S. in 1928, White, who has six children of his own, is president of the Irish Society of Philadelphia, an American 'Legionnaire and a booster of a boys' club. He is also, he says, a "lifelong Democrat" who managed to be elected to the state legislature in the Eisenhower landslide...