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Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 11,1977
IRA promises ‘day to remember’
By ED BLANCHE
Associated Press Writer
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
(AP) — Queen Elizabeth II
landed by helicopter at the Uni
versity of Ulster today less than
an hour after Irish Republican
Army guerrillas warned they
had “breached security” at the
campus and would make it a
“day to remember.”
Informed sources said the
British monarch was told of the
IRA threat aboard the royal
yacht Britannia, anchored off
the rocky County Antrim coast,
but refused to cancel her eight
hour visit to the university,
which was ringed by several
thousand British troops.
Accompanied by her hus
band, Prince Philip, the queen
boarded a helicopter on the
guided missile destroyer Fife,
the Britannia’s naval escort for
her controversial two-day visit
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to troubled Northern Ireland,
and flew to the campus at Cole
raine, 45 miles north of here.
The IRA issued a strongly
worded warning to authorities
and to the queen: “Clear the
university buildings of all civil
ians. Clear the grounds of chil
dren.
“Any bomb fatalities or
serious casualties will be your
responsibility Eliza-brit, your
day to remember. This is no
hoax.”
“Eliza-brit" is a derogatory
IRA epithet for the queen.
“We’ve had no specific infor
mation that there’s anything to
it,” a police spokesman said of
the warning. A bomb exploded
on the campus Just two days
ago.
The queen, wearing a floral
hat and dress, looked nervous
as she stepped from the red,
twin-engined Wessex helicopter
onto the lawns at the 300-acre
university complex. But she
soon smiled as more than 1,800
children cheered her.
Sharpshooters manned roof
tops, helicopters buzzed over
the surrounding countryside
and army patrols combed the
brushland around the complex.
The royal couple arrived in
Northern Ireland early Wednes
day and were scheduled to sail
for western Scotland tonight.
The 51-year-old monarch has
not yet personally witnessed
any violence during her two-day
visit, but her presence ag
gravated the bitter sectarian
hostilities behind a rash of
bombings and street clashes
Wednesday.
Traveling by helicopter in
stead of motorcade as a secur
ity precaution, the queen was to
attend a round of functions at
the university, situated in
Georgia in middle
of industry boom
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - An
“accident of geography” is
playing a big part in Georgia’s
industrial development boom, a
state development official said
Wednesday.
Coleraine, on the nrthem tip of
the province.
On Tuesday, a small one
pound bomb, believed placed by
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
sympathizers, exploded on the
university’s campus despite
massive security checks in the
area.
An unexploded bomb had
been discovered at the univer
sity 11 days ago.
Hundreds of Roman Catholic
extremists parading behind a
banner calling Elizabeth the
“Queen of Death” battled
troops in violence-prone Belfast
Wednesday.
Security forces blocked the il
legal march and tried to dis
perse the crowds, but protesters
responded by hurling bricks and
bottles at the police and troops.
At least 15 persons were injured
and 20 or more demonstrators
were arrested.
Marijuana
confiscated
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.
(AP) — More than a ton of
homegrown marijuana with an
estimated street value of more
than $300,000 has been seized in
raids in Baldwin County this
week, Sheriff Louie Arrington
said Wednesday.
Arrington said two Baldwin
County men — Jack Maddox,
30, and James Gladney, 27 —
were arrested in connection
with the raids and charged with
violating Georgia’s Controlled
Substance Act. They were re
leased under $20,000 bond.
He said state and local offi
cials combined to raid a field
Tuesday and found 560 pounds
of marijuana which had been
hung to cure.
Officers found a larger field
Wednesday and confiscated
more marijuana there.
The state’s location at the hub
of the Southeast “has made a
tremendous difference in at
tention paid our state because of
expanding markets,” said
James R. Horne, director of the
Industrial Development Com
mission of the Georgia Cham
ber of Commerce.
“The industrial prospect ac
tivity is certainly at a very high
level right now,” he said. “After
the 1973-74 doldrums, it has
picked up and continued to pick
up over the months.”
Activity peaked three to four
months ago, Home said, but has
continued at that level during
the summer, when it normally
declines.
Home said domestic and for
eign representatives have been
in Georgia nearly every work
ing day looking at the state as a
possible site for future indus
trial expansion.
“Georgia is, by an accident of
geography, right in the middle
of the action right now,” he
said.
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‘Dawson Five’
Attorneys hope to avoid trial
DAWSON, Ga. (AP) - De
fense attorneys in the “Dawson
Five” murder case resume ar
guments on pretrial motions to
day, but much of their attention
has turned to the trial they are
hoping to avoid.
“If we can’t start the trial on
Monday, we’re going to lose our
volunteer helpers who’ll be
returning to law school,” attor
ney Millard Farmer com
plained Wednesday.
Losing the volunteers would
hurt the case of the five young
blacks charged with murdering
a white ranch foreman because
the defendants are indigent and
unable to hire investigators “to
run down witnesses,” Farmer
said.
Superior Court Judge Walter
Geer has said the first of the
five—probably Roosevelt Wat-
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son—would go to trial imme
diately after the judge rules on
the motions. Trial would begin,
that is, unless Geer agrees to a
defense motion asking that the
indictments be thrown out be
cause of alleged misconduct by
local officials who investigated
the case.
The defense contends county
and state law enforcement offi
cers arrested the defendants
only because they are black and
intimidated them into con
fessing to a crime they didn’t
commit.
The officers all denied those
allegations in testimony last
week.
Farmer also has complained
about the 18-month time lag be
tween the shooting of Gordon
“Bubba” Howell at a rural gro-
bomb device exploded at the base of a street lamp post.
Woman at right was just shaken by the blast. (AP)
eery and the current hearings.
Local officials want to delay
the trial, he said, “until they get
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