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...debate in Commons-or even Faulkner's hint at week's end of other concessions-might not be in time to reverse the upward spiral of violence. "No night passes without sporadic bombings and snipings, no day without bomb scares," TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast reported from Belfast last week. "On downtown streets there are almost as many armored cars as city buses. Steel mesh is going up over more and more shop windows...
...that seeps across the 200-mile border between south and north. But it may have served to strengthen Ulster's Prime Minister Faulkner, who has become increasingly vulnerable to the demands of his party's hardliners. As former Home Minister William Craig told TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast: "If Faulkner seems to make any more gestures of compromise, it'll bring the roof right down...
...partition, is united," said a Catholic lawyer in Belfast, "and that is an almost psychopathic revulsion toward internment." In its roundup, however, the army failed to snare many key activists. Some arrests were based on ten-year-old dossiers. Besides, as one I.R.A. leader told TIME Correspondents Curtis Prendergast and John Shaw, many men went into hiding or crossed into the Irish Republic after learning that jail cells in Belfast were being cleared to make room for detainees...
Shaky Survival. For the time being, Ulster's crisis has passed. As Correspondent Prendergast notes: "In Ulster crises come like spasms, and they always subside. Newly burned-out cars rust away beside the hulks of old ones; in a few weeks it is hard to tell whether a particular building was wrecked in this year's troubles or last year's. Shoppers hardly glance at the signs, BOMB DAMAGE SALE- BIG REDUCTIONS...
Additional segments were supplied by London Bureau Chief Curtis Prendergast, who reported on a mountain-climbing trip with Prince Charles in Wales, and Correspondents Honor Balfour and Monica Dehn, who contributed a study of the British monarchy. The cover story was written by Bob McCabe and edited by Jason McManus, with the help of Researcher Mary McConachie. All loyal Scots by background, they brought to the story a basic sympathy for their fellow Celts...