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...Twomey, the Provo commander in the Belfast area, insisted that the I.R.A. had given the British army plenty of warning before the Bloody Friday bombings. But one seemingly disillusioned Provo sympathizer retorted that the army could not possibly have coped with so many bomb warnings in a single afternoon. Many Ulstermen believed that Twomey's motive in ordering the bombing attack, which killed nine and wounded 130, had been to prevent his Dublin-based superiors from putting out any more peace feelers...
...Twomey said Whitelaw was a blatant liar in saying the provisionals broke the truce in an outbreak of shooting between them and British forces Sunday...
British officials have been studying a new truce offer from the Irish Republican Army. Seams Twomey, chief of the IRA's provisional wing in Belfast, said the provisionals would be willing to negotiate a new ceasefire with William Whitelaw, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, provided British forces promise to honor the truce...
DARTHE J. TWOMEY Los Angeles...
...Joliet, Ill., Robert DeMary, an inmate at Stateville Penitentiary, filed a suit in federal district court charging that prices in the prison store have risen unfettered by the President's dictum. DeMary asks that Warden John Twomey and Peter Bensinger, the state's director of corrections, each be held liable for $125,000 that prisoners have paid in unlawfully inflated prices...