The World - News from Aug. 18, 1989

The Irish Republican Army vowed to keep attacking British army bases across Europe and stretch Britain’s resources and will to the breaking point. The IRA promised a “long, bloody summer” to mark the anniversary of the Aug. 14, 1969, deployment of British troops in Northern Ireland. But the anniversary passed without a single death in the sectarian and political conflict that has now taken almost 2,000 lives in Ulster. Britain’s portrayal of the conflict as indigenous to Northern Ireland, an IRA spokesman said, has forced the organization to change tactics, “for example, going abroad to inflict higher casualties on British military forces.”