European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday july 31, 1978 Jimmy Londonderry Northern Ireland the police lounged in their Van and looked Down at the chimneys of the bog Side which is the name the catholics use for their ghetto. Anything doing the police were  re not up yet one of them said his Chi gesturing at the  people can t get out of bed it s still  the other policeman said. Dark eyebrows jutted out Over the eyes that were about seven inches  re afraid if they get up. Somebody might make them go to work the first co said. I d like to see the Cue that can make the work like decent human beings the one with the dark eyebrows  think they stay in bed because they re afraid that if they get up they la have to Wash the first cop said. Of there s no Chance of them Ever doing that the one with the eyebrows said. As we walked away from the police my Friend Mccann who was from bog Side. Smiled it s nothing he said. No problem at  we got into his Mercedes and drove Down town to inspect the two businesses he now owns a Hardward store and a builders Supply warehouse. When the fighting in Northern ire land began 10 years ago Mccann was behind the counter of a Small fish and Chip shop which did not stand up too Well under Dyna mite. The British government then announced it would accept insurance claims from Nen who had suffered losses in the i Mccann s hands were still shaking from the to and Chip shop blast As he filled in his m. His form said that the fish and Chipa had been As big As the Waldorf Astoria. Insurance adjuster came from London Check All the claims in deny some of pen might have been , let s get on with it the insurance iter said when he arrived what is it you want he was asked by the a , i would want to inspect your dams i could vouch for the Validity of Tourine adjuster said. A you can t go in there Mccann told adjuster. The Ira will kill you in a can i report on a damage claim if 1tsee the damage the adjuster said. Don t  a Man named doa Garty said. But i can Tell you that if you go in there they la be after shooting  doa Garty had a narrow grocery shop an Irish Bodega damaged in the explosion. On his Dalm he  Bodega was bigger than Macy s. You say they la actually shoot me the insurance adjuster said. He thought for a moment. Then he got Back into his ," the adjuster said. All the  Mccann  adjuster went Back to London where he initiated everything and the voucher Wen through for the full claim of everybody in Derry. And in deny people rebuilt their shop Sand More. As the violence did not cease Over a decade neither did the insurance claims. An the insurance adjusters from London after considering death threats made an inspections from Long Range. How Many bombings did you have Mccann was asked.  you put in a claim for every one he was ," he said. How Many did they pay on forty he said. He parked his Mercedes in front of the hardware store. Down the Street was a super Market owned by his Friend doa Garty whose station in life also has grown Over the years by bombings and , some people have benefited from the bombings others have died. And the bombing still is unpredictable. The Center of deny reflects the new architecture of Many Northern Irish settlements parking lot modern. This is a place that has been destroying itself like Wolf in a trap chewing off its Paw. The Ira now says that the bombing Campaign has ended. But in the Only hotel left in Derry the owner when complimented on the place banged his hand on the wooden bar. We re glad to be  be  bartender rapped on the counter be Hind him. They put three of them in Here but we found them before they were detonated he said. Three Young girls brought them inhere under their  in another area it is comforting to find that Irish catholics in deep poverty if Given the Chance can react almost As skilfully As Blacks in Central Harlem. A few years ago. The London government decided that a War on poverty had to be fought in Catholic areas of Northern Ireland. And so one morning Nel Menehan awoke to find social workers at her front door. Menehan was a squatter living Ina charred House. She slept on the floor with a companion named Willie Breslin who had left his wife and family to take up with her. Both lived on the , this will never do a woman social worker said. She made notations on , workmen crawled through the House rehabilitating it into one of the most smashing houses in the bog Side. Now Menehan directed the workers and Willie Breslin slept. The so Cial worker then helped Menehan fill in government forms that produced a Grant for Home for battered wives. Now Menehan found herself being paid the first salary of her  became Busy working with women who came out. Of wretched lives of beatings by Al Coholic husbands. Throughout Derry catholics have mastered the first Rule of being poor get on the payroll of a poverty program. Bog Side people Are being paid to either run or attend alcoholic treatment centers manpower training courses and family counselling centers. In one program a Man who stutters badly was Luton the Only salary line open speech therapist. Grade 3. This move would frighten a Ramo Velez in the South Bronx. The Irish catholics in deny Are quite proud of it. The same Irish catholics whose relatives sit on Long Island and scream against welfare in  anti poverty program however aim ply does t reach enough people to change the Basic condition in Derry. So the number of Idle men standing on the Street Corners does no change. Neither then does the life about  lunch in a place called the Central cafe a British Soldier came through the door walk ing backward. He was in a Black Beret and his wiry Frame filled out a flak jacket. His weapon was trained on a building across the Street. Outside a group of five or six soldiers Slid along the Walls Between doorways afraid of the shadows that have killed Over 300 of the throughout Northern Ireland. Children sat on the curbs and watched the soldiers dance nervously past them. The soldiers looked like a basketball teaming action criss crossing whirling blocking covering for each other. The Soldier who had backed into the restaurant apparently was their Corner Man. He also emptied the restau rant. A Liverpool version of James Cagney waving the Semi automate Rifle among tables inter Upu the digestion. 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