A.I.L. calls conference on No fewer than three men have been shot dead, in what even the Irish Times describes as hotly disputed circumstances", since the 3rd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment moved into the Ardoyne area of Belfast on 9 March. There is a 'theory', the paper continues, 'that troops who spot a man whom they believe to be involved, but not at that moment engaged, in subversion, no longer arrest him but shoot him". Similar allegations are also widespread in Newty, near the border, where the 2nd Battalion of the Paras is based. It is clear that the British Army campaign of terror in the Six Counties has been considerably stepped up since the publication of the White Paper. KITSONISM In this Whitelaw is applying the theories of Brigadier Frank Kitson. The concessions to the middle class politicians must of necessity be accompanied by military repression aimed at destroying the base of the IRA's support among the people of the catbolic ghettoes. But there is more to Kitsonism than that.
The streets of Belfast and Derry today are a laboratory for the kind of repressive techniques which will be used tomorrow against disruptive elements' in Britain, i.e. all those who defy the Tory Government, and fight its attempts to enforce anti-trade union legislation and State control of wages, CONFERENCE These two themes will run through the conference on The British Labour Movement and the British Army in Ireland' called by the AntiInternment League for 19 May, in the Conway Hall Red Lion Square in Holborn, London. The main emphasis of the conference will be on