Reports on terrorists
Sir, —On June 22 the newsrooms of the Broadcasting Corporation received from a Reuters correspondent in Glasgow a message saying: “Nine men convicted of planting bombs or aiding a Northern Ireland extremist group were given severe sentences ranging from 12 to 18 years. The men, including four convicted of bombing two Glasgow pubs, were part of 29 U.V.F. (Ulster Volunteer Force) sympathisers who went on trial last month charged variously with acquiring guns, ammunition and explosives for use in Britain and Northern Ireland.” (Abridged.) Four days later another Protestant extremist organisation had 11 of its members sent to jail convicted of conspiracy in acquiring weapons in Scotland for use in Northern Ireland. Their sentences,
again, in the High Court in Glasgow, ranged from seven to 16 years. TVI, TV2 and National Radio chose not to broadcast those items about Protestant terrorists in Britain. —Yours, etc., P. G. CURRAN, Linden. July 10, 1979.
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