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...JAMES McGURK...
...James McGurk, a newcomer to the the Cambridge political arena, sees rent control and housing as the salient issues in the city council race...
Fifteen persons, the largest number to die in a single incident, were killed when a large bomb, containing perhaps as much as 100 Ibs of gelignite, pulverized McGurk's Pub. a cheery, shabby Catholic bar located on the edge of downtown Belfast. As a British major helped direct the rescue operation, a sniper mortally wounded him with a bullet in the head...
...British army speculated that an I.R.A. terrorist used McGurk's for a rendezvous, and the bomb that he was carrying went off by accident. But the I.R.A. blamed the Ulster Volunteer Force, the Protestant equivalent of the I.R.A., for the blast, which killed three women and two children...
Gift Dynamite. The day after McGurk's was demolished, a six-story carpet and linoleum factory in East Belfast went up in flames. The fire, started by bombs set by two armed raiders, caused $2.5 million in damage and cost 600 people their jobs...