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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 3-24-1972 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1972). Winona Daily News. 1126. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1126 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. British takeover in N. Ireland threatens civil war ¦ ' :¦ By RODNEY PINDER Ulster's constitution was tampered with. "Considerable re- LONDON £AP)—The British government took over the straint has' been shown in the face of violence and murder," he said . "There would not be the same restraint if the con- government of Northern Ireland today, ending 50 years of ' local Protestant rule in a bid for peace that risked civil var. stitution was seen to be . in peril;" • govern The militant Ulster Vanguard Movement, which claims Prime Minister Edward Heath told the House of Com- London commission to ht mons that Northern Ireland's provincial government is being prime minister, Brian Faulkner. With 14,500 British troops in Northern Ireland already thousands of followers, announced it would fig direct rule suspended. He said the strife-torn province will be governed Faulkner and his Protestant government said they would hard pressed by the Catholic guerrillas of the IRA, the army by London all the way. The movement fears that direct by a commission appointed by London and headed by a new resign rather than agree to Heath's peace plan, which they put 2,000 more on standby alert to be flown there. rule is the first step toward London handing the province appointee to over to the Irish Republic and Catholic rule. the British Cabinet. ¦ consider capitulation to the terrorists of the Irish Republican. Heath said his seizure of control of the province was In an overture to the Roman Catholic minority in the six ¦ Army. • ' . "an indispensable condition for progress in finding a political The Rev. Ian Paisley, the Protestants' loudest voice, northern counties of Ireland, Heath also announced plans to that Faulkner would remain in office solution in Northern Ireland." demanded totalas integration of the province with the rest of Heath announced Britain just Scotland and Wales are integrated. release some of the suspected guerrillas interned there with- until the British Parliament passes the necessary legislation. * He vowed to press on with the war against the IRA and ^ out trial and a plebiscite on whether the people of Northern Heath said the takeover would last a year but could be said that although some internees will be released, "we He said if the British did not absorb the six Ulster coun- Ireland want to unite with the Irish Republic. extended. will retain the power to arrest and intern those who there ties, it would be proof that London's real design was to keep The outcome of the plebiscite is a certainty since Protes- Heath had proposed to Faulkner that the British govern- is good reason to believe are actively involved in terrorism, the province nominally separate "so that its eventual sur- tants outnumber Catholics 2 to 1 in Northern Ireland and are ment take control of all security in Northern Ireland — in- and violence." render to a united Ireland will be less readily recognizable solidly opposed to Catholic rule from the South. v cluding the police — while at the sairie time phasing out the The violence in Northern Ireland in recent months has as an act of unparalleled fratricide." The government took direct rule of the province after 31 internment without trial of suspected IRA members, one of been the work of the Catholic guerrillas of the Irish Repub- The IRA said even those reforms which Faulkner and months of religious-politicarwarfare that has taken 286 lives the chief Catholic demands, lican Army, but the end of local government was expected his cabinet rejected would not be enough to satisfy Catholic and brought Britain to its gravest constitutional crisis since Faulkner maintained his government would be turned to bring a Protestant backlash that could easily escalate militants. King Edward VIII abdicated in 1938. into a puppet regime if it surrended control of security to into full-scale civil war. The IRA's Provisional wing is demanding complete with- , Heath's action was the result of the collapse Thursday London. And hard-liners in his regime were adamantly op- Two months ago Faulkner forecast a Protestant reaction drawal of British troops from the province, abolition of the night of crisis talks between him and Northern Ireland's posed to any modification of the interment policy. "the like of which has never been seen or envisaged," if Ulster government arid total amnesty for all political : prisoners. Partly cloudy ¦ itou n*\ ] tonight; chance / VR of rain Saturday To bo/once defections Nixon ponders ^ businessmen he must fire WASHINGTON (AP) - Patman, D-Tex., said he In reshaping the board as The new "public" Pay might get one. a body representative of on- Board set a rare Friday The President said he will ly the public, Nixon aban- meeting for today as Pres- keep the present five public doned the concept demand- ident Nixon pondered which members of the board, plus ed earlier by Meany — four businessmen he must just enough businessmen to that the board have public, fire to balance four union balance whatever union mem- Jabor ¦and business defections. members wish to stay. bers. - . United Auto Workers Pres- Woodcock resigned at al- The new, whittled-down ident Leonard Woodcock left most the same time Nixon shape of the Pay Board may the board Thursday as Nix- spoke, leaving Teamsters^ give it a stiffer policy to- on announced his plans to tJnion President. Frank E. ward individual wage settle- reshape the ' board. Fitzsimmons the sole repre- ments. Had the public mem- IN WAKE OF RESIGNATIONS. - . ... PresY Stein, chairman: of the Council of Economic Woodcock; the fourth la- sentative of organized labor bers prevailed, for exam- ident Nixon meets with his Cost of Living Advisers, Nixon, Treasury Secretary John B. bor member to resign in on the board. ple, a I6.8-per-cent first-year Council in- the White House Cabinet Room Connally and Donald Rumsfeld, executive di- two days, called for a con- So the new board will raise for soft-coal miners THINKING IT OVER' .. Britain Prime Minister Ed- Thursday before announcing plans for the rector of the Cost of Living Council. (AP gressional investigation of have seven members: Fitz- would have been cut back the whole ward Heath (left) and North Ireland Premier Brian Faulk- Pay Board, Four of the five labor members Photofax) wage-price control simmons, the five public somewhat in the board's effort. House Banking ner are deep in thought after a meeting at No. 10 Downing of the board quit. From left are Dr, Herbert Com- members, and whichever of first wage decision last mittee Chairman Wright the present five business year. Street Thursday night. (AP Photofax) members Nixon chooses. The While House said it didn't know who the choice Main bridge would be or when the de- Ion Nol: cision would he made. physically, Director George Shultz of Waldh eim set to name the Office of Management and Budget said all seven to Phnom Penh members would be consid- ered public members, al- politically weakened though the union and busi- ness representatives would hit by blast By HOLGER JENSEN Lon Nol then came under paign in the northeast, Chinese undersecretary PHNOM PENH (AP) - severe criticism from his be expected to stand up for SAIGON (AP) - Terrorists which he insisted on direct- their particular views. blew out the center span of Cambodia's ailing dictator, field commanders for the ing from his sickbed. The By MAX HARRELSON associate themselves with highest ranking American in Marshal Lon Nol, failure of the military cam- The President , who per- the secretariat and an un- Phnom Perah's main bridge has government force was rout- sonally announced his plans UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. the so-called Third World, emerged from, a two-week ed. dersecretary for special af- across the Mekong River today, to newsmen after outlining Wl — The United Nations between the Soviet bloc and , government crisis physical- Lon Nol mollified military them to a special session of fairs killing three persons and ly and politically weaker. discontent by promoting is about to get its first un- the United States and its al- The latest word Is that the Cost of Living Council, dersecretary - general from assistant Brian wounding five in the third at- Since March 10 he has many field commanders severely criticized AFL-CIO lies. Bunche's , tack on the Cambodian capital lost his right-hand man and from colonels to generals. President George Meany, communist China , diplomat- The top posts in the U.N. Urquhart, a Briton, will be this week. his chief of state, resumed But student opposition was who walked off the board ic sources reported today. secretariat are distributed promoted to the rank of as- growing and it found a The sources said Secre- sistant secretary - general Authorities arrested six men work on a constitution he Wednesday with two AFL- geographically and include doesn 't want and been scapegoat in acting Pre- CIO colleagues. tary - General Kurt Wald- an undersecretary - general and that Roberto E, Guyer nnd two girls and said they of Argentina would b-e the were the terrorists.

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