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DATE02-24-2011BY 60322 UC/LP/PLJ/JCF
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How U.S. Catholics
Help Their Brethren
In Northern-Ireland
'Noraid, With 90 Chapters.
Holds Dinners. Raffles:
Justice Department Sues
Organized in 1970, Noraid works out of a.
Is IRA Terrorism Aided?
drab second-flooroffice on Broaaway n Up-!
per Manhartan, sandwiched berween a fu
neral parior and a bank branch.Paint peels
Effect of the Hunger Strike
(Indicate page, name of
fromthe walls.Unpaid officials inciude
John McElhone.a Noraid official as well as
newspaper,city and state.)
reured New York transit worker.who says
By STANLEY PENN
that when he was a lad of 12 living in North-
StafSRepOrternf THEWALL STREET JUURNAL
em Ireland. Protestant toughs beat him up.
NEWYORK-They are office workers.
"Iwas an alien in my own country.he
housewves and laborers.a cross section-
says.
thousands strong-ofAmerica's working and
middle classes.They are mosuylaw-abiding
The Justice Deparument is sung in New
and God-feanng. livng in neat homes in or
York to force Noraid to regnster as an agent
near dozens of major citles.
of the IRA.The department charges that
What sets these otherwise ordinary
"stoode.spueaedoud,st presox
Amencans apart is therr support of Irish
and"collection agent”for the Insh guernlla
NorthemAidCommittee.or Noraid.agToup
group. Last July. a federal judge ordered
based here that the U.s. Jusuce Depart-
Noraid to comply wth the government's de
ment,among others.has called an agent of
mands.Denying the charges.Noraid is ap
the irish Republican Army.
pealing the ruing.
Noraid makesno secret of its distastefor
Noraid has been registered under the
Foreign Agents Registrauon Act as an agent
Bntish rule in Northem Ireland or of its
wish to see the maunly Protestant North
of theNorthem Aid Committeeof Belfast
united wth the predominantly CatholicInsh
since 1971. The Jusuce Department.how
Republic to the south. But it denies hat 1t
ever.has stated in court documents :hat
rents sor the irA.whese terrcrists a.e
cinIocate NortnernAid.The govermmen
tevn shcounz. tombias ara l.sz N.rta.
ora irenind to fanher tne simie snds.
uceuratety for he money it conects na cis
Noraid's crntcs ave ng contendea hst
genses. Federai oflciuts say hey dont
some ei be money it rauses it ats varicis
Know wno beneints from Noraio's rund rais
dinners.dances and raffles helps buy arms
ing.
forthe IRA. Earlier this month.a trustee of
S1.5 Milllon War Debt
Yoraid was arrested by federal agents un
Noraid obtainsreceipts for all money it
New York on charges that he had conspired
dispenses,contends Martin Gaivn.Yoraid's
to ship guns to the IRA.The accused.78
3l-year-old publicity director.who earns his
yearoldMichael Flannery.denied he
livng as an assistant district artormey in the
charge. As they have ail aiong.Noraid offi
Bronx.Noraid's funds,he says.are received
by Green Cross in Belfast and An Cumman
solely to aud dependents of "political” pris-
Cabrach. in Dublin. These relief organiza.
oners jauled by Northern ireiand and the
tions. in turn, distribute the money to de-
Dublin govermment in the south.
pendents of about 1.oo0 prsoners.
Show of U.S.Support
The British say these prisoners are
The extent of support for Yoraid in Irish
mostly IRA terrorists.convcted of murder.
Date:
Catholc communities in the U.S.is hard to
bombings and other cmmes.Since the erup
tion of hostilines n 1969.more than 2.000
Edition:
gauge.But it is clearly on the nse. The sev.
en-month hunger strke thattook the lives of
people,manyofthem civilans.have diedn
10 prisoners at the Maze near Beifast.!
Northern Ireland.
Noriherm ireland.hardened ant-Bntish sen
Bntain Says about 300 IRA terronsts
tment here and won sympathy for Noraid'si
roam Northern Ireland.When any are killec
cause. Donations are pourng nto its trea.'
or captured.others replace them.The IRA
Title:
sury,new recruits are signing up.and t has
is greatly outnumbered by Bntain's 11.000
2dded 10 new cbapters.for a total of 90 na
troops.in Northerm ireland.as well as 7.000
tionwide.
Royal Uister Constabulary police.
The hunger strike also gave Noraid an
To wage its guermlla war. Irish Republic
opportunity to step up its campaign in the
offcials estmate theIRA needss1.5 millon
Character:
U.S.against what it calis Brtsh misrule in
annuaily. Some of that money s obtained.
Northerm Ireland. During the stnke.it
the oificiais say.by robbing banks in the re:
10
staged protest railles at Brrtisn missions 1n
New York and other cities.It aiso heiped
Classification:
lance. these holdups have fallen off sharply!
sponsor a widely publlcized demonstrabon
in the past year.
last June dunng which Britans Prince
Submitting Office
The Irishi Republic has denounced Noraid
while he attended a performance of theRoyal
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Ballet at New York's Lincoln Center.
The street protests have enraged Bnttsh
I.
comfort to the outlawed IRA.These Amen-
SE/RCIED.
can demonstrations are. played back into
Ireland.a British official in Washington
says."They give the false impression that
the IRA has substantial support in Amenca.
Italso puts pressure on politicians in Ire
land.north and south to meet IRA'g de
mands."
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