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Hijackers seized in air struggle

... air struggle FOUR people hijacked a Soviet airliner on a flight from Oslo to Moscow yesterday and tried to set off petrol bombs on board but were overpowered after a struggle by guards and crew members, Stockholm police said. Police Supt Lennart Pettersson ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Black nationalist past a solitary coffin, g:rrelliu attacked o draped in purpe placed o e represent a i hsbua' ..

... plan to 11 p.m. on Monday. peared to have been placed no damage and planes Weeping men, women topple the Rhodesian “No mortar bombs land- too far from their targets. were taking off and land- and children filed slowly regime this year. ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 318 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Al Schooiboy pulls out all the stops

... publish her own poem about Belfast. So here Is Hazel's piece . Belfast is a good old town, Even though it's coming down, With bombs and bullets by the . core, It's the place we all still adore. --- With roads like the Shankill and the Falls. We also hear ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 412 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Belfast

... were shot dead in the early hours of June 21. Three of the dead men were said by the Army to have been preparing to plant bombs. The fourth was 27-year-old Mr. Billy Hanna, from Alliance Road a passer-by who was caught in crossfire. Mr. Devlin told police ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 435 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Tears after a man's confession

... clubs. He had been asked to drive one of the cars used to transport the bomb whieh killed Kevin McMenamin at the Easter Sunday Republican parade two years ago. But he was unaware a bomb was to be carried when first asked. He was only told on the way to Beechmount ...

Published: Tuesday 20 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1536 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Odds Supplied by SEAN P. GRAHAM WATERFORD CRYSTAL CHAMPION HURDLE 2 miles, Cheltenham, March 14 2 Monksfield 20 ..

... HURDLE 2 miles, Cheltenham, March 15 7 Hiksri 25 Cryin' Time 33 Even Par 7 Twinburn 25 Lumen 33 First List 8 Pollardstown 25 No Bombs 33 Jack O’'Lantern 14 Celtic Ryde 28 Prayukts 33 Lenygon 20 Ash Hill 25 Royal Dippar 33 Lockeridge 20 Chokowero 25 Selutiferous ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 389 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Turning point THE managing director of Harland and Wolff, Mr. R - mold Punt, took up a recurring theme in

... these awards. But the Ulster community is only too well owore of the risk involved in tasks like warning the public of suspect bombs and in Picking up the grisly aftermath of each terrorist autroge The foci that the awards are entirely to lowef ranks stresses ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 562 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Michael Patterson • natural talent for

... religion and tears. Belfast this city, Lord we pray Keep it safe by night and day, Guide our steps, all along the way, Safe from bombs and bullets we pray. Let thy blessing on Ulster rest, May all its people do their best, That in peace we all should live, Our ...

Published: Tuesday 13 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 674 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

;ezésiéhe's at the Flamingo

... Flamingo by now,” said Steve. “But we had problems due to the lorry drivers strike.” The Disco duo have aiready integrated smoke bombs and other pyrotechnics with their musical presentation. Both Steve and John like the Ballymena audiences. Steve especially ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1979
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 631 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

The bold men who play with ships for billion pound stakes

... Strabane on various dates between January 1, 1972 and July 10. 1973. Opening the case today Crown counsel said that a hoax bomb call brought soldiers to Main Street, Strabane, shortly after 8 p.m. on February 1, 1973. As the sergeant was dismounting from ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1649 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

CLIMATE OPINION

... lived through the times. While Belfast starved and shivered. on its bare rations, Dublin lived high on the hog, unscathed by bombs or food shortages. It is all wrong, of course. like most Irish myths, and at last there is a book, The Emergency: Neutral ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

4 Belfast Telegraph, Thursday, February 22, 1979

... admitted his part in six bombings during 1973 and '74. In four of them including an attack on Woolworth's store, in Strabane, which caused £600,000 worth of damage he acted as lookout and on two other occasions planted bombs in a newsagents and dry cleaners ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2383 | Page: 4 | Tags: none