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... supermen. If a bomb is found it should never be moved. That is a job for me. The first thing to decide is why the bomb is there and to go through a questioning routine. Is it to kill me or is there another somewhere else? What is the bomb contained in, ...

Published: Tuesday 20 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 361 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Four bombers sent to jail

... of the bombing. Fox and Digney were given concurrent fiveyear sentences for belonging to the Provisional LR.A. Burke, Digney and Fox were given concurrent 12-year sentences for causing the three explosions at the hotel and possessing the bombs. Dornan ...

Published: Friday 23 February 1979
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 382 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ilia

... Lighting-up time: 6. 12 p.m. till 7.03 a.m. High tides tomorrow: 6.33 a.m.; 7.18 Four are jailed for hotel bombing FOUR BELFAST men were today jailed for bombing the Greenan Lodge Hotel, Dunmurry, to 1977. Three were jailed for 12 years and the fourth, John . ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 304 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

a force

... a force 755 gun attacks and 455 bomb explosions last year. In 1972, when the IRA was undoubtedly at its strongest, there were more than 10,500 shootings and nearly 1,400 bomb attacks. Nearly 180 bombs, weighing a total of 5,859 lbs, were defused, and ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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... country of South Armagh, with just a innocent men, women bomb disposal experts bomb for company. —the A rmy's shadowy and children from There was no T V figures seen only director to give terrorist bombs. briefly in T V newsreel directions as he alter- Felix ...

Published: Tuesday 06 February 1979
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 508 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

N-East ‘terror’ raid

... the | ca night a forma- bombs indiseriminately in uried in lay under piles of wreckage ‘tan of of . German various districts, and for a tenement a a working-class one working-class area ceived-a direct hit-and burst the bombs and port area of Aber- was ...

Published: Tuesday 06 February 1979
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 368 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

anti-personnel THE ARMY sergeant crawled foot at time across the field butterflies his end edged up the ..

... Butterflies safety at field was a wide the bombs” '-personnel Disposal war CLEM LEWIS 1000 kilogramme Hermann bomb “We believe outside the Hospital” his widow Lily Barton Yardlev recalls All types of bombs tell leave John field of butterfly the did not ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1979
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: | Words: 285 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Danger ila

... Danger UNEXPLODED bombs have to be handled carefully like women! according to the men of 97 Bomb Disposal Company. Thames Television are running a series, Danger UXB, based on their work. Pan have published an 80p paperback by Michael Booker, which is ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1979
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 143 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Police toquiz man hurt in blast Police were to-day wait- emergency operation last vas re-opened to the public ..

... midnight. bombings. seriously injured teenager has not yet been named , is However the South Woolworth's assistant expected to undergo Street car park where a manager, Mr. lan Maudsley. to question him about the another operation to-day. second bomb exploded ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1979
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 275 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Jail for man who killed soldier

... scene. He had also kept lookout while bombs were planted at Woolworths, a cafe and at the Munster and Leinster Bank, and had carried devices into a newsagent's shop and a dry cleaners. Damage caused in the various bombing attacks amounted to over £700,000 ...

Published: Friday 23 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 182 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Gutted

... them what parts they were to play in the bombing. He also told police that he did not go with the others to the hotel as he did not play anactive part in operations. The hotel was completely gutted when the bombs exploded starting a fire. The judge said ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 184 | Page: 9 | Tags: none