Galway Advertiser 1981/1981_07_16/GA_16071981_E1_006.pdf 

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TELEVISION GUIDE
MONDAY, 20 JULY 5.00 Cartoon Time 5.10 Battle of the Planets 5.35 Lassie 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 News 6.20 Off the Wall 7.00 Doom Castle 7.30 Sale of the Century 8.00 Magnum, P.I. 9.00 News 9.15 My Wife Next Door 9.50 Radharc 10.30 Nuacht 10.35 Flamingo Road 11.30 Late News Ryan's Hope Coronation Street Trapper John M.D. The Green Linnet Sight and Sound in Concert 10.25 The Levin Interviews 10.55 Classics Dark and Dangerous 11.25.News Headlines 7.05 7.30 8.00 8.50 9.20

OF CONCERN TO ALL
H o w many people even heard of H-Block/Armagh a year ago? Yet today this problem, which has been around, let us not forget, since March, 1976, has come to dominate all our lives, North and South, in Britain and throughout the world, the United States especially. If ever there was an Irish political problem of international dimensions in recent times, this is it. And it has reached that position becasue of the lack of c o m m o n sense by so many groups, supposed to be concerned about Northern Ireland, and the British Tory Government in particular. The trouble with Mrs. Thatcher is that her decision to hide the background to the granting, and withdrawal in 1976, of special category status in the North, is a political game in itself. The very attempt to deny any political motivation whatever to those on the other side is the most highly political and delicate act of all, that carries, and has carried, the gravest risks. For over a decade now the generals, the intelligence and counter-intelligence brass, have been assuring Whitehall that they must be tough with the native Irish, that if they put in the boot for a few short months, cut some legal corners, on internment, interrogation, special courts and prison routine itself, they will have the situation under control. Moreover, it has been argued -- and there is documentary evidence of this, -- the lessons so thought to that rabble-rousing minority will be s o severe, that they will not raise their heads for another generation, at least, and more importantly, by far from the British Government's point of view, any racial, national, or other minorities in "mainland Britain" will know what to expect, if they, t o o , begin to air their grievances in any forceful way. Moreover, and for good measure, the British Army will have the experience of everything from interrogation torture to the use of C.S. gas and plastic bullets, to put to g o o d use back home, if the need arises. The need would now seem to have almost arisen in England itself, not because the generals predict it, not simply because of the brutal economic mess on the other side, but also because in policing and the resolution of community problems in British cities, there is about as much sensitivity to those vital factors of history, group-loyalty, cultural differences and individual dignity by some of the British police, as the R.U.C. and the B-Specials used to show to Ulster Catholic Nationalists -- before it was too late. One does not like discussing specifics about H-Block or Armagh at a time when people are dying weekly, and when there is still some hope that some resolution of the truly desperate situation can be found before we all go off the the edge. Even the new Coalition Government which did not particularly distinguish itself in its approach to two Provisional hunger strikes in Portlaoise in the mid-1970s, before quietly conceding what are now generally described as the "five basic demands", seem to realise that they cannot afford to be unconcerned, if only because the shadow of H-Block hangs over them, and us, in a way that cannot be allowed to go on. One of those involved in the hunger-strike, and at the time of writing close to death, is, in fact, a T.D., so that the very political stability of this part of the country could be involved. Let us admit that our interest in this problem is probably as self-centred as that of the politicians, but now that we are aroused, and reasonably informed, let us admit, like the Commission on Justice and Peace, that the prospects for progress on almost any other front with regard to the North, are impossible while H-Block remains unresolved. It is wrong to put all the blame on Mrs. Thatcher, or the British Government, though the delay with the Commission's efforts as Joe McDonnell was dying, has shown them up in a bad light. Whitehall's mistake -- which was also the mistake of many in the South until now -- was to assume that by dumping people in Long Kesh for long enough, you could deal with a political, a historical, a community and a human problem of frightening proportions and complexity, and hope that it would go away. But all these people have wives, parents, children, relations, even friends on this side of the border, who know that, like the English urban problem, it is not as simple as that. There usually is at least one other side to most stories and in spite of both censorship and disinterest, the full truth will come through if you keep at it -- and wait long enough, even if only wrapped in a blanket, in the case of those most immediately involved. H-Block must be smashed not for the satisfaction of political triumphantalism by this or that side, but simply because it is an inhuman monstrosity which ultimately degrades all those involved in it, or in whose name inany way however indirect, it is operated. Thank goodness there is concensus, even if a belated one, on that score amongst the Dail parties. The few isolated voices who supported the stern Thatcher stand have been almost eroded, but not unfortunately without the I.R.A. being allowed to give both Dublin and Whitehall a devastating lesson in public relations. We must now ensure that they cannot continue to reap increasing sympathy from the anger felt at the deaths to date. There are lives at stake, and as we "have seen, not only those of the prisoners. |THURSDAY, 16 JULY 4.35 Upstairs Downstairs. 5.30 Friends of my Friends. 6.00 The Angelus. 6.01 News. 6.20 Garda Patrol. 6.30 Cartoon Time. 6.25 Here's Lucy. 7.05 What's Cooking. 7.25 Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em 8.00 Donncha at Adare. 9.00 News. 9.15 S.B.B. ina Shui. 9.45 Are You Being Served? 10.15 Nuacht. 10.20 Chief of Detectives. 11.20 The British Open Cham pionship. 11.50 Late News.

FRIDAY, 17 JULY 4.30 Sesame Street 5.30 Dennis the Menace 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 News 6.20 Cartoon Time 6.25 Heidi 6.55 Nuacht 7.00 Six Million Dollar Man 8.00 Dolly 8.30 Hands 9.00 News 9.15 Today Tonight 9.50 Mannix 10.50 The British Open Cham pionship 11.40 Late News

TUESDAY, 21 JULY 5.10 Maya 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 News 6.20 The Enchanted Castle 6.50 The Waltons 7.50 Cosmos 9.00 News 9.15 Funny Man 10.15 Nuacht 10.20 Eadrainn 10.50 The Entertainers 11.50 Late News

SATURDAY, 18 JULY 5.55 Switch On 6.00 Agallamh an tSathairn 6.20 News Headlines 6.25 Horses Galore 6.35 The Bionic Woman 7.45 Lou Grant 8.35 The Secret Army 9.30 Summerhouse 10.15 Top Rank Fighters of the 70's

SUNDAY, 19 JULY 6.20 Switch On 6.25 News Headlines 6.30 Smuggler 6.55 Battlestar Galactica 7.50 Call my Bluff 8.25 Armchair Traveller 8.55 Broadway Musicals: The Desert Song 10.45 Athletics

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SATURDAY, 18 JULY 12.50 Daktari 1.40 Sports Stadium 5.05 News 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 The British Open Cham pionship 7.00 Nuacht 7.05 The Old Curiosity Shop 7.40 Man, Myth and Titans 8.30 Saturday Cinema The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang 9.00 News 9.15 Saturday Cinema: The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang Part 2. |11.25 Late News

WEDNESDAY, 22 JULY 5.10 Super 7 5.30 The Sullivans 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 News 6.20 Pepi The Egyptian 6.45 Cartoon Time 7.15 Mid-Week Movie: Carry On Screaming 9.00 News 9.15 M.A.S.H. 9.45 Premier IV 10.20 Nuacht 10.25 Mozart with N.I.C.O. 11.00 The Jackie Gleason Show 11.25 Late News

MONDAY, 20 JULY 6.00 Switch On 6.05 Sport on 2 6.55 News Headlines 7.00 Ryan's Hope 7.25 The Monday Movie: The Squeaker 8.50 Festival: Henry VIII 11.30 News Headlines

THURSDAY, 16 JULY 6.45 Switch On 6.50 News Headlines 6.55 Mart and Market 7.00 Ryan's Hope 7.25 Top of the Pops 8.00 Palmerstown U.S.A. I SUNDAY, 19 JULY 8.50 Pot Black J 12.00 Mass for the 16th Sunday 9.45 Cine Club: The Light of the Year Shining in the 3.00 The British Open Cham Darkness pionship 11.20 News Headlines 6.15 News 6.30 One Man and His Dog 7.15 Nuacht 7.20 Sunday Night at the Movies The Flame and th- Arrow 9.00 News 9.15 The Sunday Game FRIDAY, 17 JULY 10.15 The Sunday Series: The 6.55 Switch On Lost Tribe 7.00 News Headlines 111.15 Late News

TUESDAY, 21 JULY 6.30 Switch On 6.35 Ryan's Hope 7.00 News Headlines 7.05 Wild, Wild World of Animals 7.30 Coronation Street 8.00 Hart to Hart 8.55 That's Hollywood 9.20 Wayne and Shuster 9.50 Great Train Myster ies: The Thirty Nine Steps 11.15 News Headlines

WEDNESDAY, 22 JULY 7.00 Switch On 7.05 News Headlines 7.10 Ryan's Hope 7.35 Rank Xerox Squash 8.05 Taxi 8.30 The Age of Un certainty 9.25 In Loving Memory 9.55 Summerhouse 10.45 Country Star Time 11.25 News Headlines

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