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By Keith Kelly
headquarters of the Irish Re-
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publican Army's political wing,
Sinn Fein,
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
The man police/were seek-
- Rioting erupted in west Bel-
ing, New York lawyer Martin
fast Sunday when police tried
Galvin, 34. escaped. Gaivin is
to seize a banned American
director of the New York-
IRA sympathizer who was
based Irish Northern Aid Com-
about to address anti-British.
mittee, known as Noraid.
protesters on the 15th anniver-
Banned from entering
sary of sectarian violence in
Northern Ireland 10 days'ag0,
Northern Ireland.
he was 'trying to address the
One man was killed and at
Belfast rally, marking another
least 12 people hurt as police
ofNorthernIreland'sanniver-
fired plastic bullets in a crowd
saries - the introduction of'in-
of several thousand outside the
ternment on Aug.9,1971.Earll-
er, another rally was held in
Londonderry'sBogside,the
Catholic district where sectari-
an violence first exploded,Aug.
12, 1969.
Internment --- the jailing
without trial of suspected IRA
members-wasabandonedin
1976, but marches commemo-
rating its institution have con-
tinued in nationalistic parts of
Northern Ireland each year.
Galvin was leading a 130-
member Noraid delegation on
a tour that has aroused consid-
erable controversy since it left
New York last week.
Over the weekend, Sinn
Fein leader Owen Carron ap-
pealed ·to the visiting Ameri-
cans to supply guns to the IRA.
"The backbone of support
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lies in America” he told the
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Noraid members.
But a leader of the Official
Unionist Party, James Molyn-
eaux, blasted the tour as a
"gang of American Marxists."
In Sunday's riot,police
rushed toward Galvin as he
stepped onto the rally platform
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and picked up the microphone
to speak. Several women and
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hard plastic bjillets.
"I've, never seen anything
like it," said? Noraid member
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Desmond Collins of Detroit.
TThere was a little girl next to
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me who was hit in the back."