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Ulstermen could also be grateful that the peak of violence passed without an immediate widening of the conflict. The government had not declared a general curfew or a state of martial law; a widespread Protestant backlash against Catholic militancy had not appeared; and members of the illegal Irish Republican Army (the I.R.A.) had not resorted to mass terrorism. Nonetheless, the outburst marked a reversion to outright religious warfare. From Protestant and Catholic alike comes the warning in that pungent northern twang: "There's going to be a bloodbayeth, I'm afrayud...
...COURT-MARTIAL OF LT. CALLEY by Richard Hammer. 398 pages. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan...
...unity he envisions, however, might well leave East Pakistan a cringing colony. In an effort to stamp out Bengali culture, even street names are being changed. Shankari Bazar Road in Dacca is now called Tikka Khan Road after the hard-as-nails commander who now rules East Pakistan under martial...
...parliamentary democracy, despite his own comment that politicians behaved like "five cats tied by their tails." When a weary Ayub stepped aside in March 1969 in the wake of strikes and student riots that focused on wages, educational reform and a host of other issues, the generals eagerly imposed martial law. In his first speech as President, Yahya delighted his military sponsors by declaring that the country was at "the edge of an abyss." What really bothered the generals was that the country might be on the verge of a return to genuine civilian rule, posing grave dangers...
...Polaroid, television and the shotgun mike at least a decade before the public did, and if you don't watch out, he'll "teleport" you atom by atom to his mysterious laboratory near the North Pole. Like James Bond, Doc is gadget-gaga. Dozens of tiny martial devices-gas bombs, sedative darts, ultraviolet flashlights-are concealed in his clothing. His cars are rolling fire bases that can "go like Barney Oldfield" and crash like tanks through concrete walls. The transports and fighter planes in his private air force are really "whizzers...