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...split Unionist ranks now have closed behind Faulkner and his no-nonsense rejection of any form of Irish unification. From Stormont came cold statements blaming the marchers for "a meaningless and futile terrorist exercise." The typical Protestant worker's reaction was expressed by one laborer in a Belfast pub last week when he said, "I wish it had been 1,300 of the bastards...
Along the grim, wind-whipped streets of wintry Belfast, there were also ironic, even humorous touches. On New Year's Eve, thanks to the terrorists, there were 30 fewer pubs than last year in which to celebrate the passing of 1971. To some, the prevalence of pub bombing made it seem as if the war were being fought by the Temperance League rather than the I.R.A.; it has secretly pleased some Presbyterian elders. Many customers, scared of the pub warfare, quit early. This has given rise to dour little jokes. The long-suffering wife of a drinking husband supposedly says...
Fifteen persons, the largest number to die in a single incident, were killed when a large bomb, containing perhaps as much as 100 Ibs of gelignite, pulverized McGurk's Pub. a cheery, shabby Catholic bar located on the edge of downtown Belfast. As a British major helped direct the rescue operation, a sniper mortally wounded him with a bullet in the head...
...found strangled in the bedroom closet. "They did it to show you they could get into your bedroom," Amy yells, but David does nothing. Soon after, when the men have almost run David off the road on his way into town, he confronts them in the local pub. David, with a twitching grin, just buys them all a drink. Several days later, the workmen lead David off on a snipe hunt, and while he sits in a field, holding a shotgun, two of the men sneak back and rape his wife...
...Three terrorists, trying to blow up a police station in a Belfast suburb, planted bombs in an adjoining pub. "You have ten seconds to get out!" they shouted toward the bar, but that was not enough. The toll: three killed, 35 injured (13 of them women). The police station was virtually unscathed...