The World - News from April 24, 1986

An off-duty police inspector was shot to death in an ambush outside his home in Newcastle, Northern Ireland. The Irish Republican Army, waging a guerrilla war to drive the British out of Ulster, called the shooting a “blow against terrorism” under Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, which the Reagan Administration cited to justify last week’s attack on Libya. The article says that a country has a right to defend itself and its people against attack. The Protestant inspector, Jim Hazlett, 54, was wounded in a similar attack in the 1970s.