The World - News from March 13, 1988
Opponents of British rule in Northern Ireland pledged that no gunshots will be fired in honor of the dead at next Wednesday’s funerals in Belfast of three IRA guerrillas killed in an abortive bombing mission in Gibraltar. The pledge came after Northern Ireland police warned that they would intervene if gunmen of the outlawed Irish Republican Army sprang out of the crowd to fire a salute. The bodies of the three guerrillas, shot dead last Sunday by British soldiers in the colony of Gibraltar, were to be flown by chartered plane to Dublin on Monday.
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