Article May 2, 1988 Issue

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The New York Times

From The New York Times, December 7, 1987

"The killing of one Irishman by another is such a routine part of this province's [Northern Ireland's] strife that it is unusual when the loss of innocent life causes people to stop and actually wonder whether the long, coarse weave of vendetta and grievance might be altered.

"Few dare risk a final answer, but such a question is now reverberating in Belfast, Dublin and London after the bomb blast that killed 11 Irish civilians here [Enniskillen] Nov. 8. Among them was 20-year-old Marie Wilson, a student nurse mortally wounded when she was crushed by a wall where the Irish Republican Army had hidden a powerful bomb to desecrate a memorial service.

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