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...civil war does come, among those most eager to form the front lines at street-corner battles will be members of Protestant youth gangs known as the Tartans. Mostly boys between 14 and 20 years of age, they wear blue jeans and jackets and sport tartan scarves as symbols of their Scottish and Protestant ancestry. Their slogan, TARTAN RULES, is scrawled on gable walls in most of Belfast's Protestant ghettos...
Tacit Approval. Undisciplined and virtually leaderless, the Tartans roam the streets of Belfast eying strangers with suspicion, occasionally attacking Catholics with sticks, stones and fists. This month Tartan gangs set fire to stores, wrecked bars and rioted in East Belfast for four consecutive nights. In another era, the Tartan gangs would be written off as adolescents bored with the drabness of back-street Belfast, much like Teddy boys of London in the mid-'50s. But Ulster's political chaos has turned them into defenders of the faith who have the tacit approval of many adult Protestants...
...typical Tartan gang member is Jim Tipping, a long-haired lad of 18 who has a crest of Protestant banners tattooed upon his scarred right arm. The scar is a relic of an I.R.A. gunshot wound that Tipping suffered while walking down a Belfast street six weeks ago. Tipping's gang, the Shankhill Tartans, has hundreds of members, who spend much of their time lolling on street corners and shouting anti-Catholic slogans on Saturday afternoons. They were reared in an atmosphere of sectarian bitterness and bigotry, and their attitudes show it. "I hate them," Tipping says...
...start of the afternoon's competition on Boston College's tartan track, it appeared as if a Crimson upset was taking shape. The Harvard sprint relay team upset favored Northeastern, and when the Crimson took 1-2 in the hammer, 2-3 in the javelin, an unexpected 2-4 in the pole vault, a 2-4 in the shot and firsts in the long and triple jumps, the picture for Harvard looked bright. Particularly satisfying were Vincent Vanderpoole-Wallace's new meet record of 23'6" in the long jump and Kevin Benjamin's winning triple jump. Benjamin established himself...
...styles are changing. Women and girls have begun to wear bright blouses again, and Western visitors have even seen them in tartan patterns in Shanghai. Peking has also given official approval to greater variety in food, hair styles, literature...