Battle Lines Drawn
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issue simply encouraged Browne to go even further. The next day he attacked party president Matt Merrigan for taking a principled stand on the Provisionals' bombing campaign. Merrigan's subsequent attempt to retreat on this principled support shows that the left made a serious mistake at the conference in not forcing home the censure of Browne.
The right-wing's confidence will have increased as a result of, this episode. If the left is “not to lose further ground then it must ensure that the resolutions on the H-blocks are turned into action on the streets.
Irish Troops Out of Lebanon!
Because of the bombardment ~ U.N. positions by Israelibacked christian forces, the countries with troops in the Lebanon ( except Ireland and Norway ) refused to allow them to serve a new term there, They were initially requested to send troops after the Israeli army invaded in an attempt to destroy, once and for all, the Palestinian resistance, _ However, this blitzkrieg style invasion has generally eroded international sympathy for Israel, This is hardly surprising since the invasion of 25,000 troops was in response to the killing of 44 people in Israel, This pretext lost all credibility when the conce-_ ntrated assault on the Palestintan population became known, As a consequence there were roughly } million extra refugees according to U.N. reports, CONTINUED ON PAGE 7