Word: provos
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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...
Whitelaw also told the House of Commons that he had met secretly a few days earlier with six Provo leaders in London. He had taken the step, he said, because the situation had seemed "very dangerous," and he had wanted to "save lives in any way I could." He had hoped that he might talk the Proves into tearing down the Catholic barricades in Londonderry that the Ulster Protestants resent so deeply. Despite the I.R.A.'s demands that Britain move all of its troops out of Catholic neighborhoods immediately and withdraw all soldiers from Northern Ireland...
...Officials' peace bid was quickly denounced by the larger and more active Provisional wing of the I.R.A. "They say they're putting down their guns," sneered one Provo. "But since when did they ever take them up?" Nonetheless, the Officials' cease-fire was a shrewd political move because it capitalized on the Catholic population's growing dissatisfaction with the continued violence...
Minister Jack Lynch increased the pressure on the I.R.A. by arresting three top Provo leaders based in the South (Chief of Staff Sean MacStiofáin, however, managed to escape). Lynch explained that he had decided to crack down on the Proves because "peace initiatives have not been given a chance...
...trouble hijacking the United Airlines, Denver-Los Angeles 727 to San Francisco. United met his demands: $500,000 in small bills, six hours worth of fuel and four parachutes. With an expert's efficiency, McCoy then directed the pilot on a wandering eastward course and parachuted over Provo, Utah...