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THE VISIT of the Duke of Edinburgh to the Ulster Defence Regiment base in Armagh has put the chill back into British/26 Counties relations.

Since the Fine Gael/Labour coalition took office last year, both London and Dublin have been working hard to repair the rift which developed when Fianna Fail's Charles Haughey was Taoiseach (prime minister). It found its most dramatic ex- uary 27. pression when Ireland gave its active diplomatic support to Argentina during the Falklands war.

The Northern Ireland Office responded to criticisms with the statement: "A visit by a member of the Royal Family to a regiment in the UK of which he is colonel is an internal matter for the UK"

The outrage has been caused because, right now eight members of the Armagh Ulster Defence Regiment are being held for sectarian murder and others are being investigated.

But that is probably the point of the visit - to shore up UDR morale, which must be in a pretty bad state.

The following account from An Phoblacht of one of the recent sectarian killings shows that sectarian killers in the 'security forces' are still on the loose.

"In the latest in a series of sectarian attacks on North Armagh nationalists in recent nonths, a 28 year old Lurgan man, Daniel Melntyre, was shot dead by a Loyalist murder gang shooting.

Victim: Daniel McIntyre arty By Marry Steam "no.

By Paddy Dollard -in the early hours Melntyre, an unemployed coach-builder, was on his way to his Dingwall Park home in the nationalist Teghnaven estate.

At about 1.40am, as Mcintyre walked along the Old Portadown Road near the junction with Manor Drive, a car pulled up alongside him.

Several shots rang out and Daniel Melntyre fell to the subtered fotal intered havin the head and neck.

The Loyalist gunman coldly held his weapon to McIntyre's head, as he ensured his victim was ded, and then returned to ing to the United Nations Children's Fund.

had been wiped out."

die from measles. Poissy Left Rumbles continue in French Left following the Talbot Poissy strike.

The CP has been talking about the government conceding to the pressure of the bosses, and some people in the Socialist Party have also been criticising it.

But it's all very limited: the alternative proposed is nothing more precise than more efforts by the government to get industrial growth.

The CFDT. trade union confederation, after a period of attacking the government from the right, has also taken a more combative stand.

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