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Lebanon declared an open-ended state of emergency in the wake of the raid. "Since 1948 we have been in a state of truce with Israel," declared former President Camille Chamoun. "Today we are in a state of war." Premier Saeb Salam, who had long avoided a showdown with the guerrillas, laid down a set of 14 demands to Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat. Their purpose was to hamper any guerrilla movements and prevent further Israeli revenge...
...Secretary of State for Northern Ireland last March, William Whitelaw had attempted a policy of "reconciliation" toward the embattled province's Catholic minority, and had even entered into secret talks with the I.R.A. But when the I.R.A.'s militant Provisional Wing broke the carefully negotiated truce and unleashed a brutal bombing attack on Belfast last month-in which nine persons were killed and 130 injured in one afternoon-Whitelaw felt that he was forced to take a stronger stand in dealing with I.R.A. terrorism; he was now determined, he said recently, "to root out the I.R.A. and destroy...
...seemingly minor dispute: the picketing of an East London cold-storage firm by a group of determined dockers. Their demand was that the task of packing shipping containers at the firm should be turned over to registered dock workers. The trouble began when the dockers, defying a "truce" ordered by the new labor court, began to boycott trucks supplying the firm. When the court decided to flex its muscles and send five of the offending dockers to Pentonville, labor decided to flex...
...pure in heart. Said MacGuinness: "We will now begin to concentrate on army targets and sabotage their installations. We have proved we can do what we like in Londonderry. We are sick, sore and tired of being treated by the British government as little boys." Two days before the truce broke down, he was among the six Provo leaders flown secretly to London for talks with Ulster Proconsul William Whitelaw. Now, MacGuinness vowed, "we will not stop fighting until the Protestants and Catholics can live together without discrimination in housing, jobs or religion in a social, democratic and united Ireland...
...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 by Jan. 1, 1975-conditions that Whitelaw described as "unacceptable"-thft negotiations were expected to continue. The end of the truce also quashed, at least for the time being, this glimmer of hope for an eventual reconciliation. Whitelaw's announcement of the discussions infuriated Ulster's Protestants, not simply because he had negotiated with the Catholic terrorists, but also because he had previously said that he would...