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...Haughey's selection was a clear defeat for his predecessor. A 22-year party veteran who has held four major Cabinet posts, Haughey (pronounced Hah-he) won with the votes of Fianna Fáil M.P.s from the traditionally republican counties in the West and on the Ulster border. His wife Maureen's father was Sean Lemass, a veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising and a former Prime Minister. Haughey's climb to party leadership was interrupted in 1970 when he was tried, and acquitted, in a Dublin court on charges of running guns to the I.R.A...
...united Ireland has always been the goal of the I.R.A., which looks on the six northern counties of Ulster as a beleaguered colony. While Ulster's 65% Protestant majority clings to its ties with England, the I.R.A. remains a potent force among Ulster Catholics, who chafe at the constant surveillance of their impoverished neighborhoods by armed British soldiers...
...years, the British say, Adams has honed the Proves into a deadly terrorist force. Despite their small numbers -there are only 600 to 700 gunmen, organized into cells of four to six men each -they manage to tie down 30,000 troops and police. A top British officer in Ulster says flatly: "Gerry Adams runs the I.R.A. in the North...
...purpose. "No one man could have done everything they say I did," he says. Yet he is clearly a top strategist in the Republican movement. Speaking officially as vice president of the Provisional Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Provos, Adams met TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof in Ulster last week in the first interview he has granted to any U.S. publication...
...charge that the I.R.A. will eventually attack the Irish Republic: The main aim of this phase of the struggle is to remove the British [from Ulster] and to create conditions where the Irish people, in a united Ireland, can establish social democracy with complete control over their own destiny. The movement wants to see the creation of a decentralized socialist state. Obviously, even the term united Ireland means that the government that has been set up in the Republic must come down. The working-class majority from Ulster-Protestants and Catholics-don't simply want to be absorbed into...