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Ever since militant members of the Irish Republican Army began exporting their campaign of violence from Ulster to Britain, Scotland Yard has suspected they were smuggling in explosives and weapons aboard an unlikely gunrunner: the 1,800-passenger liner Queen Elizabeth 2. In 1972 two of the vessel's kitchen porters were charged with possession of rifles and hand grenades on board, following one of the ship's stopovers in New York. An I.R.A. bomb factory was discovered last December in Southampton, the liner's home port, which has long been a center of I.R.A. activity...
...Party to take note of these discontented rumblings from the north. Thus last week, Wilson, in the annual speech from the throne delivered by Queen Elizabeth, announced that his government planned to introduce legislation "devolving" some of the functions now carried out by Parliament to new regional assemblies in Scotland and Wales...
...rejoicing by the Scottish Nationalists. Instead, they were outraged. In a subsequent debate on the speech, Scottish M.P. Winifred Ewing dramatically walked out of the House of Commons, and Party Leader Donald Stewart accused Wilson of "a cynical betrayal of a clear electoral commitment to the people of Scotland." What irritated the S.N.P. was a kicker to Wilson's promise: the Prime Minister indicated that he hoped to have a lengthy national debate on the subject before presenting firm proposals to Commons sometime after next November...
Many Englishmen are particularly worried about devolution for Scotland−Wales is less of a problem−since a semiautonomous sub-government in Edinburgh would eventually lay claim to most of the North Sea oil revenues that are counted upon to bail Britain out of the economic doldrums. On the other hand, if the legislation fails, Labor is in deep trouble: its command of Parliament depends on the vote of 41 Scottish M.P.s. According to one recent poll, 30% of Labor voters in Scotland will switch to another party−most of them to the Scottish Nationalists−if self...
...more explosives. They forced open crew members' lockers and sampled the air from dozens of compartments with a sophisticated explosive detector known as a "gas chromatography" machine. The QE 2 was clea−her 1,176 closely searched passengers left on schedule Thursday for their holiday−but Scotland Yard's bomb squad will clearly continue monitoring her comings and goings with considerably more than casual interest...