News' comments. "THE Irish Republican Army admits responsibility for planting the bomb ir Enniskillen yesterday which exploded with such catastrophic consequences. We deeply regret what occurred.
has now established that one of our units placed remote controlled bomb in St Michae's aimed at cat ching crown forces personnel on patrol in connection with the Day service but not during without being triggered bp bomb our radio signal.
'There has been
ongoing battle for supremacy between the IRA and British army elec tronic use remote-control bombs. In the past, some of our *gered by have beel triggered the British army scanning high frequencies other devices have been jammed and neutralised. • On each occasion we overcame the problem recently believed that we were in advance of counter-measures.
'In the present climate nothing we can say in explanation can be given the attention which the truth nor will it com deserves. pensate the feelings of the indured or era, iris i Reed: P O'Neill, Irish publican Bubeau, Dublin) Publicity ON MONDAY 9 November, the day after the bomb explosion at Enniskillen, the IRA issued a statement which we reproduce below together with Republican Republicans do not attempt to justify or explain away what happened Sunday.
Las The his has called the has called the 'catastrophic consequences' can be reversed or minimised. It an appalling that should never have happened.
But what is clear is that the IRA had no intention injuring civilians, did not themselves detonate the remotecontrol bomb. They did not anticipate the tragic result of the premature detonation of the bomb.
That was a monumeni continue to pay acad which In the aftermath of Enniskillen everything that republicans have said has been distorted where it has not been censored. This is to be expected but what cannot be denied is that the IRA has been consis tent 1n claiming respon sibility for action damaging to the repub movement and useful to the enemy Nor can it be denied that the war counties which has claim. ed so many lives is not now never has been the fault of the Irish people -nationalist, loyalist or rebubical ultimately but is that blame
UNITED STATES presently in Geneva putting the 'finishing touches' to the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. This treaty comes after two years of determined pressure for such a deal from the USSR. CAROL TURNER looks back on the steps which have led to the treaty.
15 JANUARY 1986. In his statement of that date, on behalf of the Soviet government, Mikhail Gorbachev outlined a proposal completely rid the planet of nuclear weapons, În propaganda terms, it was a surprise for Walmongers like Ronald Margaret cher Mitterand and Helmut Kohl Ulle they decidedly did not welcome.
Soviet Union offered a three-stage programme 101 total and world-wide elimination of by the Lucical wcaoulls year 2000. Stage one: the USSR USA would and Soviet negotiators are snovelling away, convuc ed that 'there must be a pony nere somewncle who had assiduously avoided the press during his first 10 months in office. unavoidable he conducted an 80-minute airborne briefing.
While it was in progress, Regan eight aides were sketching the next steps flowered into a publicity their administration.
persuade the JS the emulate the optimistic child in one of Reagan's favourite jokes who finds The White House had no opon out to respond positively. 'We hope to make ‚progress.' said spokesperson for the admunsulauull This the offer which drove Was a wedge between the USA and West Europe. In the week that followed the British media began its campaign against the deal. It was a campaign echoed Germany and elsewhere. 'Gorbachev отте Europe's nuclear powers' reported the Financial Times of Tuesday 3 March.
With eye on the then forthcoming general Margaret Thatcher pretended tepid welcome. But the French administration experiencFrench foreign ministry baldly spelled salencul out that: 'ine objective must be to avoid a denucWE Socialist Action 20 Nov 1987