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Tribes develop among drivers trapped near each other. Foraging parties are appointed (but for the most part are repulsed by landsmen living near the motorway), and the sick are cared...
...publication of an anticipated British White Paper setting forth a new political structure for Northern Ireland, terrorists shifted their attack. Most of last week's shootings took place in West Belfast, where Catholic Andersonstown is separated from Protestant Donegal Road by the fast-moving M-l motorway. Suddenly violence cropped up there as gunmen used the motorway for an escape route...
...week's first victim was James Trainor, 22, a mechanic in a service station just off the motorway. Trainor apparently recognized the two men who drove up to his gasoline pump in a green sedan; he was hit by a fusillade of bullets as he tried to escape them. Peter Watterson, 15, was sprayed with automatic fire from a car as he stood in the doorway of his mother's candy store. Next morning, Francis Smith, 28, a former Catholic who had joined the U.D.A., was found face down in an alley near his home. The I.R.A. said...
...week's end, the death toll also included British Army Sergeant William Boardley, who was shot while setting up a checkpoint on the motorway, and Robert Burns, 18, a Protestant. Burns was killed by machine-gun fire from a car passing a group of men who were standing outside a milk bar in Belfast's Old Park Road district...
...first long look at America. Thematically, the album combines a look at America from the point of view of the touring rock star, with a look at the America symbolized by Hollywood of the forties. Davies stresses the perpetual motion of the tour throughout the album, on songs like "Motorway," in lines like "I'm a Maximum Consumption, super-grade performer-High powered machine," or "Motorway food is the worst in the world,-You've never eaten food like you've eaten on the Motorway." He falls back on Hollywood for relief, for a perfect world, "Nobody's gonna travel...