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...army, further flamed the tempers of Ulster Catholics, who called it a whitewash. Nothing would shake their conviction that British troops had shot down unarmed civilians without provocation. Bernadette Devlin saw Widgery as "the latest in a long line of British establishment liars." Nationalist Party Leader Eddie McAteer scoffed that "we were lucky he did not also find that the 13 committed suicide." All of which meant that the British government once again faced a crisis of confidence in its relations with Ulster's half million angry Catholics...
...brochure was traced to students in a course in consumerism and environmental activism at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. Their teacher: one of Ralph Nader's Raiders, Lawyer J. Davitt McAteer, 26. The critics, who quickly zeroed in, could not deny the brochure's accuracy on cost of living. But, as a Honolulu paper pointed out, the state does seem ready to enforce strong water-quality laws and establish new standards governing air pollution and noise. McAteer admitted the brochure violated Nader's principle of presenting both sides of an issue...
...Fading at last are the old hatreds that date back 45 years to the Troubles, when British Black and Tans hunted down the guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army. In fact, the emotional climate has so changed that the chairman of the pro-Eire Nationalist Party, Londonderry Businessman Eddie McAteer, counseled his once fiery followers: "No more unsuccessful insurrections, please. It is still risky to twist the British lion's tail. Just tickle...
...order must be preserved" contend the authorities (Mulford, Brown Knowland, McAteer, the newspapers, the Administration, etc., etc.) But are law and order really civilization's ultimate virtues-- or are freedom and justice...