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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Holiday from hate for Ulster s children by Hugh a Mulligan associated press the Homecoming chaos at the Airport i Bellas. Northern Ireland never fails to amuse and sometimes Dampen the Cyer of he majesty s customs agents. He cloth capped Drivers of the i r a taxis the waiting parents and friends both Catholic and proles and. Uneasily touching shoulders in he arrivals Hall an Are lingus Turnbo Jet. Making a rare touchdown at Belfast Rolls up to the Gale and delivers a thundering Herd of Sunburst Mosquito bitten Northern Ireland youngsters unbelievably burdened with skateboards. Cabbage Patch dolls baseball gloves. Dallas cowboys hats Sterico cassette recorders huge Eddy bears and this time a 10  bicycle one redheaded lad in a Matching Budweis or t shirt dragged Home a regulation is ocl hockey stick loan Uncertain future in the Glens of Antrim where no Lake has Frozen Over since the ice age a dark eyed Colleen no taller than the Luggage Carl she was pushing had three enormous suitcases full of new clothes and gifts not counting the Gucci cosmetic Case she refused to entrust to an older sister and As always happens in this land of Homes and families broken and burned out by decades of sectarian strife there was one Little boy. Age 9 or 10, All decked out in Yankee pinstripes and plastic Balling helmet whom no one at All had Como to Mecl the tears glistened but before they rolled Down those freckled Cheeks Denis Mulcahy gathered him up in his massive arms and got two elderly nuns Busy making phone Calls in the past dozen Summers thanks to the generosity and scrounging of the organization headed by Mulcahy. A selective on the new York City bomb squad 3,000 needy youngsters from the protestant and Catholic ghettos of Belfast. Derry Newry and the murderous Border villages like Crossmaglen and Lon Staoro have had a Holiday from Halo in America this year two charter flights were needed to iransuort641 kids we re not trying to convert anyone Mulcahy described the Aims of project children which won him a presidential citation we re just providing a six week vacation irom violence Lor those innocent victims of the Lor Blu troubles that have gone on Loo Long and that they Are too Young to understand maybe along the Way they ii see it is  Lor people to live together in peace and love " despite the Well scrubbed angelic laces tins was not the Vienna boys choir Arving at Belfast Airport some of them were As Lough but As Brittle inside As the paving blocks hurled Hack and Forth across the bulletproof neighbourhood fences hand lettered in the language of hate prods  no Pope Here " British bastards " Ulster has awakened " up the  red hand commandos " a uhf Zakpa Ftikas had Placo names made infamous rail h if blood la Oci headlines.  Road. Divis Flats Bally Murphy. The bog Side. My pc 90t slrco1 smarts �  says Mary Jane Noone. Wife of a Wall Street lawyer who Lor Loz ah3 " has pc nod Kcf Short h a n gnome twosome of the most Temps Mossad refugees of Northern Ireland 3 continuing sectarian storm e do � brim be morning to Fine a year old working off his Jel lag " the another Belfast  arnved in so deep a depression from a City whore Only loyalist or i Reary page16 i i. Dennis Mulcahy amid waving Coldren at a picnic Al up3mg new the stars and stripes sunday september vast il986 " members of the Royal Ulster cons Abuja by Las year i Don t know How they live with this but every  
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