Word: thatcherism
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...I.R.A. hopes that the mounting toll of servicemen will force Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to withdraw her country's 10,400 troops from Northern Ireland. But the latest violence has infuriated the British and increased the pressure on Thatcher to break the back of the I.R.A. once and for all. Cutting short a family vacation in Cornwall, the Prime Minister ordered a full review of her government's options and told reporters, "Nothing has been ruled...
...While Thatcher made her choices, eight more bombs exploded in Belfast and Londonderry, injuring one policemen. The blasts followed the return of I.R.A. Leader Robert Russell from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland under a recent extradition treaty. Russell escaped from a Northern Ireland prison in 1983 and was arrested in Dublin a year later...
...help prevent casualties, Thatcher's Ministry of Defense moved to reduce the high visibility -- and vulnerability -- of British troops on the Continent. The 95,000 British soldiers in West Germany were ordered to exchange special black-and-white military license plates for ordinary British tags. This fall Thatcher plans to push legislation in Parliament that would curb Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A., by requiring candidates for local council chambers in Northern Ireland to declare that they will not support any illegal organization...
...vigorously pro-British Protestant politicians of Northern Ireland are not satisfied with such limited steps. They called upon Thatcher to reinstate the practice of interning suspected I.R.A. terrorists in prison camps without trial. Former Prime Minister Edward Heath urged Thatcher to reject internment, however, contending that it proved disastrous after the policy was introduced in 1971. Not only was Britain widely denounced for violating human rights, but the internment policy triggered a bloody I.R.A. bombing campaign. Predicts former Northern Ireland Secretary Lord Whitelaw, who abandoned the practice in 1975: "Such a move would inevitably result in violence on a truly...
...Friday, a bomb injured three Royal Ulster Constabulary police officers, while another explosion ripped through Northern Ireland's newest hostelry. The same day thousands turned out at funerals for a Protestant grocer and a British soldier, both victims of recent gunmen attacks. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher broke off her vacation and returned to London, where Ulster Protestant Members of Parliament are demanding that suspected terrorists be jailed without trial...