Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 24, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free november Ulster social crisis is deepening by William Borders new York times London political situation in Northern Ireland has deteriorated to Point at which Many observers be relieve the province is now facing one of its gravest crises in on the Toman Catholic the Irish Republican army has significant Cly escalated the level of its violence by j murdering an Ulster member of Par the Ira seeks to free Ulster a from British Rule and reunite it with the rest of on the protestant there is sense of rage and fru Stra symbolized by the random killings of catholics in recent and by the i furious mob attack last week on James the British Cabinet minister responsible for the there is Winore and More talk about amassing private armies to fight against the Catholic the in the Middle As has reacted with More snore police searches and unusually Strong words about the Rule of but the mood is Are forces threatening to push the province into civil said Gerard a Catholic member of from we must resist but As lord a Lead ing put the Middle ground seems to be and to in moderation carries no unionists favor retaining us sters Union with the rest of v the murder a week ago of a unionist member of the Robert was seen by the protes tints As a Milestone in the ancient Battle for Northern the 12 men chosen to represent the province in the British parliament protes Tants and two catholics had Long been regarded As potential but the Shock of having one of the most of them actually killed people on both sides of the sectarian with a somewhat to 1 Lar izing in Airey the conserva live party spokesman on the province and a member of was killed in an explosion in but he was a faraway not a familiar figure like 1 in any that murder was the work not of the the dominant nationalist guerrilla but of a smaller fringe organization that Calls itself the Irish National liberation Bradford murder came just a week after a warm and cordial meeting Between the prime ministers of Britain and the Irish symbolizing a i rapprochement the unionists find since they fear in their the iras timing was no but whether it was or the combination of events sent Waves of anger through a Large Section of the protestant within hours of Bradford an 18yearold Belfast Catholic named Thomas Mcnulty was shot dead on his Way Home from a since the youth had no political it was widely believed his murder was a random retaliation by militant and in the week since several More catholics have been apparently without at the same the Ira has pressed its attacks on members of the police and the and the rate of sectarian murder has at times exceeded one a one of the most militant of the protestant the Ian pais has predicted More members of parliament will be and he has sought to mobilize the Community with a Day of calling for wide spread strikes and protest a frontline fighter in the protestant Camp for nearly 20 the crisis of our generation is now upon to meet he claims to have raised a Force of thousands of Many of them Are prepared to fight for the future of late saturday 200 of these protestant most of them masked and some of them apparently armed with hand marched in military formation through a Little Vil Lage near where a for Mer reservist was killed last the governments apprehension about such forces presumably explains Why it moved so quickly last week to assuage protestant fears after the death of sending in 600 More Battle ready cancelling All police leave and stepping up the Security sweeps of the Green Hills along the where isolated protestant Farmers who Are also Par time reservists have become a More and More frequent private armies have no place in prior said last week in an official government Al luding to Paisley Volunteer terrorism can and must be but that is not we must not in the end lose the War for the preservation of our democratic Way of other players in the deadly Irish drama have also been using Strong words in recent responding to the fear that everything seems to be getting As a worried Belfast housewife put Cardinal Tomas the roman Catholic primate of All is very much a brits out As the expression and no Friend of the Thatcher but in one of his most outspoken messages he warned last Friday of an orgy of death and and pointedly reminded catholics that co operation with the Ira is a mortal let me state in simple language with All the authority at my com the Cardinal that participation in the evil deeds of this or any other paramilitary organization is a mortal sin which will one Day have to be accounted for before god in judg 6 speaking not so much to the gunmen themselves As to the men att women in the Catholic Community who help and protect he continued to Coop Erate in any Way with such organizations is and if the cooperation is the sin is but the sectarian killing Contin As relentlessly As the and lately the funerals that follow have assumed a political like the one at which prior was roughed two Days at the funeral of a Par time reservist killed by the the Brian Courtney expressed a common feeling Why do we have to wait to be free from the shackles of terror ism the protestant people of the province Are entitled to be Given meaningful Ian Paisley rabble rousing raising political nato fundamentals Are under Challenge 1172112 i j to by William Pfaff special to the free press York is in More serious danger from these than from bad and prejudice Are driving the Western allies before this if it nato could be finished As an effective it May be that nato deserves to that it has outlived its you will not hear that in but some people there Are acting As if they believed even if nato has served its purpose As i think May be True it deserves to be ended in an intelligent and constructive a better Security arrangement in Europe than the present one can certainly be two Over armed nuclear alliances now confront one another across the minefield that separates the two neither has anything to gain from attacking the both know both assume that the other does we ought to be Able to do better than but the Prospect these Days is of natos a calculated conservatives in Washington and new York Are upset at what president Ron Ald Reagan Calls Europe pacifism and they do not in the least understand Why pacifism and neutralise have suddenly strength ened this and they do not really care because these things feed their own instinctive isolationism and a they have never been entirely comfortable with the european they would feel less con better Able to Deal with the soviet Union which obsesses if the United states played a Lone i is sheer feeling for them it is not an Analysed these people under stand the weight and strength of the but they deeply dislike Mak ing concessions to a Western Europe american conservatives have not Only american it was George the first pres who left office with the solemn warning that Europe has a set of primary which to us have or a very relation it must be unwise in us to implicate by artificial the Ordinary Vicissitudes of her or the Ordinary combinations and Colli Sions of her friendships or the View is growing among important people in the United states that the West europeans Are fainthearted and want the United states to run All of the risks of Western defence and pay All of the new York times columnist William Safire wrote recently that europeans want Europe defended with out any europeans life at the same combination of condescending ignorance with outrage can be found among others who ought to know bet this writer just took part in a very weighty new York seminar on natos future in which the principal speaker blamed West German Chancellor Hel Mut Schmidt for blocking the deploy ment of Neutron weapons in in it was president Jimmy Carter who abruptly called off the Neutron program after Schmidt had made a controversial decision to accept the weapons suffering consider Able political damage As a the speaker reached roughly the same conclusion As that euro peans want Protection without since they want to avoid War on their and Are reluctant to accept the latest then implied to hell with bring our boys and this sentiment provoked no particular protest among the Assem bled professors and civil a fire Speaks for a Good Many americans today when he asks can we defend a Europe that does not want to be de fended does it make strategic sense to try the american Public seems to have concluded that the defence of Europe is not Worth nuclear risk to the United in an associated press by news poll published november a Clear majority opposed any nuclear retaliation by the United states to a limited soviet nuclear attack upon Western fifty two per cent favored retaliation against a Warsaw pact ally of the thirteen per cent favored an fallout attack upon the the rest did not general Charles de Gaulle no doubt is having a laugh in the when he ordered development of Frances Independent nuclear deterrent and in took France out of the nato military he said that the United states could not be expected to jeopardize its cities to defend at the was Bell Howell shoe cube projector Auto focus Bonus offer free 110 Bell Howell pocket camera with each projector sold National cameras 319 Donald Portage a main concourse 9422141 interpreted by and by others in As an attack upon the Honor and reliability of the United As if it would not keep its it was actually a dispassion ate statement of what today appears to be obvious to All but 13 per cent of the american it now is equally obvious to it is a bad Alli Ance which in so essential a matter As nuclear upon denying the nato is at a Point where it must be the confrontation with Russia in Europe is not at All what it was 30 years the two problems Are really a single that Europe Security Overall including the Security of the soviet Union but today there is no sign of so Funda mental a reconsideration of where we 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