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Catholic eyewitnesses contended that McCann-who was unarmed at the time-was first shot in the legs and then murdered, with at least ten shots pumped into his body. The British army declined comment, pending an inquest...
Public Drama. The I.R.A. extracted a maximum of public drama from his funeral. Gunmen patrolled the Turf Lodge area of West Belfast where McCann's body lay in state in an apartment. The Irish News ran an entire page of messages of sympathy, many from interned I.R.A. fighters. An estimated 2,000 mourners-including black-bereted I.R.A. fighters and uniformed girls of the Fianna na Eireann, a sort of junior I.R.A.-marched in the funeral cortege, while another 3,000 watched from the sidewalks. Civil Rights Firebrand Bernadette Devlin, who had been sentenced in absentia the day before...
...McCann was buried in an I.R.A. plot in Belfast's big Catholic cemetery, next to the graves of two teen-agers who were killed when a bomb they were making exploded last year. Around the grave was a huge pile of flowers, and all 21 I.R.A. companies stood silently at attention as a bugler sounded the Last Post. Cathal Goulding, the Dublin-based chief of staff of the I.R.A. Officials, delivered the funeral oration. Clad in a red sweater, his long hair blowing in the breeze, Goulding declaimed that McCann had been "shot like a dog by the agents...
...revenge for McCann's death, I.R.A. snipers killed three British soldiers, and set off a new upsurge of violence. In all, there were more than 250 shooting incidents last week. Most of them were apparently begun by the Official wing of the I.R.A., which prefers bullets to bombs, the favorite tactical weapon of the Provisionals. In one particularly grisly act, a corporal in the Ulster Defense Regiment, the largely Protestant provincial militia, was kidnaped and murdered, and his body booby-trapped with 475 Ibs. of explosives (a British bomb-disposal squad successfully dismantled the devices). In addition, two teen...
...level of violence soared, pessimists feared that McCann's death might prove to be a milestone like Jan. 30, when 13 Catholics at a demonstration were killed by British troops. "Bloody Sunday" fueled the winter's worst rash of bombings and eventually led the British to impose direct rule. Reporting last week on his inquiry into that sorry episode, Britain's Lord Chief Justice Lord Widgery blamed the Catholic civil rights demonstrators for creating a "highly dangerous situation" with their illegal march, and some of the troops for action that "bordered on the reckless." But he judged...