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Margaret Thatcher was angry at Carter over RUC gun ban
The issue dominated a large part of her first trip to the US as prime minister in December 1979. The minutes of her initial meeting with the president reveal that she “handled both the gun which the RUC at present used and that which was on order. There was no doubt that the American Ruger was much better.”
The mainstream media misses the most important parallel with Northern Ireland’s past: British troops
Comments by Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde about deployment of British troops to Northern Ireland have not been given adequate prominence in the British media
Terrorism in North Ireland and selling out the next generation
The latest shootings in Northern Ireland aren’t a return to the old days, and the people will be sold out again.