R.U.C. back in Bogside
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on all parades until January 31, 1971, the only exceptions being the Remembrance Day parades on Sunday, November 8, themselves strictly Orange affairs.
The ban includes the Apprentice Boys parade in Londonderry, which was to have taken place on August 12.
The Ulster government also announced that the hated Royal Ulster Constabulary is to be sent in once more to the Catholic Falls Rd and Bogside areas.
The restoration of the RUC was included in a statement from the Ulster Joint Security Committee, which is so monumentally cynical that it almost amounts to a provocation :
'Benefit' 'What is involved here is the full re-introduction of a civil police service (1) for the benefit the local community... the committee are confident that the overwhelming majority of the people in these areas will welcome the full service which is being provided for them.' No one in Falls Road the Bogside needs reminding of the nature of this 'service'.
One of the reasons for these moves by the Ulster Tories came into the open immediately after the announcement.
'Reactivated'
N Ireland Minister of Commerce Mr Roy Bradford said in welcoming the measures that if industrial development was to be 'reactivated', it was a 'matter of desperate urgency that law and order be clearly seen to be effectively established in all areas ..:
The Rev • Martin Smyth, County Grand Master of the Belfast Orange Lodges, said that 'it is naive to believe that because of the ban everything will settle down.
'Instead it could lead to 7d POST FIRST class mail will be 7d and second class mail 5d from next January, it was announced yesterday in the Commons by Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Mr Christopher Chataway.
Increased letter, parcel and other miscellaneous postal tariffs are to be referred to the Post Office Users' National Council by the Post Office.
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In February, just after the AJS, sister organization to the Young Socialists, had held their massive rally at Le Bourget, their Paris headquarters • were raided by the sternation and reaction These repressive méasures are undertaken even before is now a definite the main effects of the crisis sibility."
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mission of Jurists yesterday.
ALLEGE - The report is based on documents smuggled out of jails and concentration camps and details given by the prisoners exchanged last month for the kidnapped German ambassador.
At least 12,000 political prisoners are estimated to be in Brazilian jails.
Since army doctors , the report, army have attended interrofelt by the French economy.
They are only preparator o the full force of dictator ship.
Jean-Paul Sartre's statement earlier this month that France is heading towards civil war gives the context for the maintenance of the ban on the four organizations.
Sartre had declared that 'arbitrary imprisonment, housesearches and an orgy of police brutality in the jails are on the agenda.
are on Pom French rarelaton of the 'law-and-order' ‚policy promised by the Tories Britain.
the European ruling class gets ready for trade war and economic crisis, the attack on the legal rights of workers' organizations becomes a life-and-death issue.
This is why the actions of the Stalinists are SO pernicious.
When de Gaulle imposed the ban on left-wing organizations in 1968, he knew he had the support of the French Communist Party. appear tomorrow.