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...Maria, now 25, was more than a guerrilla groupie. University educated, multilingual, pretty, and with plenty of public relations savvy, she was one of the I.R.A.'s better front agents. Then after a year she fell out of love with the Provo leadership and defected to write this kiss-and-tell book about the men who have been blowing Ireland apart...
...dour, puritanical MacStiofain (who since has been replaced as the Proves' top military man). His Roman Catholic scruples would not even let him bring back from the Protestant North a box of contraceptives his men needed to make acid fuses for their bombs. In her book, the Provo leader emerges as a ruthless, Machiavellian schemer, hooked on violence and callous about casualties. "What does it matter if Protestants get killed? They're all just bigots, aren't they?" she quotes MacStiofain as saying after a car bomb had killed several passersby...
...Provo canyon, Utah, raw land near the Sundance ski resort fetched $3,750 an acre in 1966. Today it goes for as much as $13,000-even though zoning restrictions prevent some buyers from building anything...
...British army command claims that it has broken the back of the I.R.A. in Ulster−and that is probably true. In the past five months, more than 300 suspected I.R.A. members in Northern Ireland have been detained. British intelligence experts estimate that there are only 20 full-time Provo activists left in Belfast, down from a peak of 1,100 in 1972. The average young Provisional is either picked up or shot within three months after he joins the I.R.A. As a result, recruits have grown younger and younger, often including 15-year-olds...
Perhaps an even more important catch was Joe Cahill, 53, onetime Provo chief in Belfast and No. 2 man in the movement, who had dropped out of sight following the imprisonment of Provo Chief Sean MacStiofáin. Cahill and five other smugglers were unloading the arms from the coaster Claudia onto a fishing smack when the Irish warships fired warning shots across the Claudia's bow and then sent out a boarding party. All six Provos were later charged with conspiracy to import arms unlawfully; Cahill and two others were held without bail...