The World : 10,000 March in Belfast
About 10,000 Roman Catholics marched in Belfast in a parade that British authorities had declared illegal but made no move to stop. The marchers included 116 visiting Irish-Americans from NORAID, the U.S. fund-raising group accused of providing aid to the Irish Republican Army. The march marked the anniversary of the British policy, introduced in 1971 and abandoned in 1975, of interning terrorist suspects without trial. Meanwhile, in Ireland, radio and television journalists staged a 35-hour strike over the state network’s cancellation of plans to interview NORAID publicity director Martin Galvin.
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