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...interned without trial last summer, and ordered the British army to adopt a lower profile in the Catholic ghettos. Now, many of Ulster's Catholics had begun to sign peace petitions, and the I.R.A. was losing support. Last week the Provisionals' fugitive chief of staff, Sean MacStiofain, called reporters to a rendezvous behind the Londonderry barricades. If Whitelaw would agree within 48 hours to meet the I.R.A. to discuss their peace terms, he said, the I.R.A. would declare a seven-day bombing halt. Bluntly, Whitelaw refused to respond to "an ultimatum from terrorists...
...sense the campaign was plainly becoming counterproductive. The horror of Christmastime violence has produced a wave of revulsion in Britain as well as Ulster. But the violence also made many in Northern Ireland question their government's claim that the gunmen are being beaten. Claimed MacStiofain, "We are stronger than we have been for many months...
...Regardless of the cost to ourselves and regardless of the cost to anyone else, we will keep this campaign going," said Sean MacStiofain, chief of staff of the Provisional wing of the I.R.A...