The troubles of Northern Ireland boiled over in many directions last week. In Dublin, the capital of the Irish Republic to the south, Prime Minister John Lynch attacked the British for troop violations of his border, and threatened to call upon the United Nations to police the area.
In Amsterdam, Dutch police seized a planeload of Czech-made arms flown from Prague and allegedly intended for the outlawed Irish Republican Army to use in its campaign to oust British troops from Ulster. They also arrested the Belgian pilot of the charter aircraft and an American who was charged with importing arms without...