Word: pro-i
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...anti-Catholic move unless soldiers are also sent in against Protestant terrorists. One clear danger was that the action will not intimidate the I.R.A. so much as inspire it to renewed violence. "Has Wilson thrown down the gauntlet to the I.R.A.?" asked Seamus Loughran, a Belfast organizer for the pro-I.R.A. Sinn Fein Party. "If so, he has made a terrible mistake...
...Fort 'Worth Five," a group of New York Irish Americans who were imprisoned in Texas during 1972 and 1973 for refusing to testify before a grand jury concerning their alleged involvement in arms traffic to Northern Ireland via Texas; eventually, they were released. This year's pro-I.R.A. martyrs include the "Baltimore Four," two Irishmen and two Irish Americans who were convicted of conspiring to smuggle 158 rifles and other materiel from New York to Ireland...
...Leopard signal-caller has a reputation as a runner, and behind him in the "Pro-I" formation will be tailback Rick Craw and fullback Joel Crossrow, both of whom started all last year and averaged just over three yards a carry...
That came as no surprise to comrades who admire Sharp's hardheaded skill in a crisis. Says an officer long associated with the admiral: "If I had to choose a man to lead me in peace or in war-a real pro-I'd choose Oley Sharp. When the going is toughest, he's at his best...