promote the aims of the IRA. The bloody battle in Londonderry follows the familiar pattern of gunmen using protests as cover. The toll is the price of mindless violence.
THE TIMES * The IRA. and because of it, the people of Ulster, will have to be battered longer before the IRA is reduced to the point of generally recognised disablements at which it would become useful to make further proposals for any political settlement that could be accepted by both sides." "....Nor is it a solution to say 'release the internees, for that only leads back to more fighting in the streets and more bombing. ....But the possibility of tougher security measures has already been mentioned. Full rearming of the RUC is one of these. Beyond that what follows would depend on the presence or absence of parallel action against the IRA in the Republic. If it came, that might be enough, but if the IRA still had a safe retreat across the border, then hot pursuit and other Israeli techniques might be called for. ...The presence of snipers in the later stages of the march must have added a murderous dimension. It is a terrible warning to everyone involved."