Derry deaths: not reckless but ruthless

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Action Group) Parents are calling for Keith Joseph to order an enquiry into i primary school where they claim children, including those with disabilities, are regularly publicly beaten.

In the latest case the headmaster caned a "quiet, gentle" nine-year-old girl who suffers from epilepsy, in front of her classmates for whispering in class!

take up the government's offer and cover themselves by making mention of the availability of abortion as an option, then you can be sure it will be done in such a loaded way as to be worse than useless.

This move by the DHSS is part of a general departmental tightening up abortion and sex education.

EASTER Sunday last year two Derry youths were run down and killed by two army landrovers driven at speed into a crowd during a minor riot over the hunger The first news reports (on the BBC's World Service) carried an eyewitness account from a BBC reporter of the Landrovers being driven downhill at 50 to 60 mph into a fleeing crowd.

Later news reports dropped this account and described the incident as a "traffic accident". • Now the trial of the two Army drivers has just ended in Belfast with a "not guilty" verdict for causing death by reckless driving and aiding and abetting it.

very detailed one from Paul Clements, the BBC reporter, that the crowd was fleeing, and contrary to Army claims, that no stones were being thrown at the vehicle.

Indeed it would have been physically impossible years. We have lost 52,000 jobs in steel without one day's strike action. The trade union leaderchin nicks un the militanov of places like Shotton, Corby, Consett and Llanwern and sends it in a direction that leads it nowhere at all. Then at the end of the day they blame the workers for selling their own jobs.

The national trade union leadership has reduced its membership to a grovelling shambles, who pray every week that the next major plant to close wil not be theirs.

This is why, as a member of the 1 lanwern Action Groun Liste vIvup:

I believe that our only salvation lies in changing our union, forming one united steel union, well structured and accountable.

To this end, I will fight to introduce within my own union measures to:

a) Elect trade union delegales wno are accountable their own works/region, not une varous trade secons and down the country.

b) All full time officials VE CICCICU II MIXCU ICES ho alantad far fivar tarmo office.

c) Executive Council seats should be allocated by proportional representation on the basis of the numerical membersup or tacn Davision, and voung akin et noch Miiininm .a1 ...d:. should be done by the Division for which the candidate is standing; in other words, all Executina seats should L... The to aim at the Landrovers which were round the corner from the body of the crowd.

Most alarming though, are the sworn statements given to the NCCL by two people who had tuned into army radio messages that shows that there was a clear intent to draw the crowd into the path of the landrovers and that the vehicles were held back until the crowd was a sitting target.

And the final exchange after the boys were killed:

"We've got a doggo here."

«Good show, good show."

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This, despite several eye witness reports, including a