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T is a routine anti guerrilla operation in this rugged Border Countryside where the provision Al Irish Republican army Ria holds the whip hand. The helicopter will return later to pick up the troops and Fly them Back to an army Barracks in this tiny Market town. Soldiers travel by air because the guerrillas have made the roads too dangerous. Crossmaglen t with a population of is a key stronghold of the Ira in what Northern Ireland Secretary Mer 1 y n Rees has called the Bandit country of South Armagh. Since the outbreak of guerrilla warfare which has racked Northern Ireland for six years the county has figured prominently in the conflict. 1 local protestant its fiercely Republican people arc solidly behind local 1ha units who have shown a ruthless skill in cutting Down British soldiers and police. Moss covered Hills and winding narrow roads provide Ideal conditions for guerrilla action. About 40 soldiers have been killed since 1970 in the area close to the Border Between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. The Irish Republican Tricolour flies Over the burned out town Hall. Around the Comer from the wide Market Square a company of the Royal scots regiment is virtually beleaguered in a Barracks heavily protected against guerrilla at tacks with barbed wire sandbags and High corrugated Iron fencing. Walls show the scars of earlier mor tar rocket and machine gun attacks. It is the loneliest and the most dangerous of the army outposts in Ulster. Its Nick name used by both soldiers and locals is the the army no longer uses vehicles for patrolling the surrounding hostile Countryside. Too Many of them have been blasted by Road mines or attacked by snipers concealed behind Hedges or in disused buildings. Culverts Nufler roads Are favorite hid ing places for explosives to be detonated by Remote control As military vehicles pass Over them. In this area traffic signs asking motorists to drive carefully Are unnecessary. Slogans painted on Roadside Walls proclaim provisional troops entering or leaving the Cross Maglen Barracks do so by air. Even their sacks of garbage have to be taken out by helicopters using a nearby foot Ball Field As a heliport. In the town s bars Tell How the police had to use helicopters to serve court summonses on two residents of the area. As this reporter drove into Cross Over a filled in Crater outside the town where a 14-ton Saracen armoured car was blown up four months were no soldiers or police to be seen on the quiet streets. People did not bother to look up As helicopters flew Over the rooftops. They were some of the 600 soldiers rushed from Britain to reinforce the army in South Armagh. But the hostility of Crossmaglen s citizens was summed up by the local army commander maj. Edward Cowan when he told new arrivals every single per son Here is passively or actively engaged against you. There is no one you can Call a the Leader of the Crossmaglen civil rights association Paddy Short deplores description of the area As the most notorious in Ulster where soldiers have More Chance of being killed than anywhere else. We Are a peaceful people but no one is going to impose his will on he said. The British army invaded us in 1969. There would be no violence if they were not the Only protestant in Crossmaglen is a widower Wiio runs a Draper s shop. The actual strength of the Ira Cross Maglen battalion is secret. But the Success of its units has already found a place in Republican folklore. In Many Republican areas throughout the six counties they Are regarded As heroes of the fight to drive the British out. Children taunt soldiers by clapping their hands and chanting Crossmaglen Border guerrillas have a big advantage Over other Ira formations in the hinterland. They can pick their targets strike with rockets bombs mortars and automatic rifles and then vanish Over the Border into the Irish Republic Safe from British army Pursuit. Provisional Rule but life May become More difficult for them now that the British and Irish governments Are co operating More closely in joint Security actions to close the Sanctuary loopholes. People Here Are convinced thak Cross Maglen and other Border areas con trolled by the provisional will be key targets for Britain s special air service Osas Force of counter insurgency troops. Units of the Sas which was noted for its cloak and Dagger operations behind enemy lines in the second world War have been ordered into South Armagh to help combat what British prime min ister Harold Wilson called the develop ment of gun Law this move followed an escalation of a sectarian murder Campaign by protestant and Catholic extremists. Army spokesmen maintain secrecy about the movements of tile Force and its strength but Short says they could put in Sas men and the aspirations of the people will remain the same. The troops will have to leave Penthouse says Kab in 1960s infiltrated nato group new York a Penth ouse Magazine says the soviet Kab was so successful at infiltrating the North Atlantic treaty organization nato in the late 1960s that one of its agents was Able to steal a sidewinder air to air missile. The Kab agent carried the weapon disguised As a Roll of carpet in a car that he drove Halfway across Germany in 1967 and then shipped it to the soviet Union aboard a com Mercial airline the Magazine says in an article by British reporter David Lewis. The article is excerpted from a for theorizing Book by Lewis Penthouse says. The Kab is the soviet Union s state intelligence Arm. The Kab went after nato s blueprints for the de Fence of Europe in the 1960s, Lewis writes and succeeded in nearly destroying critical nato Security. 1? o r example Hermann Luedke. A German Admiral and one of the West s top Mil itary planners at supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe either was killed or committed suicide after he was compromised by a Young French girl working for the Kab the Magazine says. To avoid disgrace Luedke Iliad agreed to photograph top secret documents and subvert staff members Lewis writes. However he is reported to ordered not to photograph but to steal parts of a Hawk guided missile. The theft of the sidewinder was accomplished by Wolf Knoppe a 33-year-old Ger Man Pilot and a Manfred Ramminger a German architect turned spy Penthouse says. Take off to Regina for return. Canadian air transportation tax not included save 35% on round trip Economy fares for weekend trips of 700 Miles or less to anywhere in Canada or the . 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