71. The heavy-handed response to civil strife by police and the British army breathed life back into the IRA. 72. The original uniforms were modeled on the British army. 73. The streets are patrolled by British army units rarely seen since the cease-fire began six months ago. 74. The Royal Ulster Constabulary and the British army used plastic bullets against civilians, mostly Catholics, while their use was outlawed in the rest of the United Kingdom. 75. The talks will also have to deal with disarming the IRA and making a corresponding reduction in the British army presence in the North. 76. Their enemies in the Irish Republican Army had exploded a bomb inside British army headquarters at Lisburn, a few miles away. 77. Then he left for private schools in Britain, the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, and service in the British army. 78. There was someone in the British army who was opposed to the independence of your country. . . . 79. They say Roisin McAliskey was a member of an Irish Republican Army unit that bombed a British army base in Osnabrueck, Germany, last June. 80. They lived first in tents by what was an old British army post. |