Word: provos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beginning in mid-October at New York's Carnegie Hall, Time Inc. will have the privilege of sponsoring the 1972 U.S. tour of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London. In the course of 36 concerts, this renowned orchestra will play to audiences from New York City to Provo...
Twomey, the Provo commander in the Belfast area, insisted that the I.R.A. had given the British army plenty of warning before the Bloody Friday bombings. But one seemingly disillusioned Provo sympathizer retorted that the army could not possibly have coped with so many bomb warnings in a single afternoon. Many Ulstermen believed that Twomey's motive in ordering the bombing attack, which killed nine and wounded 130, had been to prevent his Dublin-based superiors from putting out any more peace feelers...
Princeton Shirt. The Bogside Provo headquarters is in a narrow lane near the gasworks, reachable via the one un-barricaded road from the city. When I arrived a few minutes after the shooting, a youth with shaggy hair, hollow cheeks and a euphoric look lay slumped and panting on a rickety old couch. A poster on the wall proclaimed END BRITISH TERROR and showed a Union Jack dripping blood on a skull and crossbones. A small table was piled with ammo clips, a Sten gun and World War II carbines. Young men, few of them above high school age, kept...
...Provo commander is Martin MacGuinness, a 22-year-old redhead wearing a freshly laundered Princeton T shirt and the untroubled gaze of the pure in heart. Said MacGuinness: "We will now begin to concentrate on army targets and sabotage their installations. We have proved we can do what we like in Londonderry. We are sick, sore and tired of being treated by the British government as little boys." Two days before the truce broke down, he was among the six Provo leaders flown secretly to London for talks with Ulster Proconsul William Whitelaw. Now, MacGuinness vowed, "we will not stop...
...sets stay tuned for another sport: listening to British army headquarters issuing orders and receiving reports from units on patrol. The army's transmitters happen to be on the same frequency as a local TV station. British HQ is aware of this. Messages that could tip off Provo patrols are cut short by clipped instructions "to use other means" of communication. Such lapses as "We don't want another calamity like Lima's [code name for a British patrol] shooting on our own men" or "Can you claim a hit?" are met with the sort of hilarity...