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Undaunted by even the Irish revulsion over Aldershot, the Official I.R.A. raised Ulster terror to a new dimension. At week's end, an I.R.A. murder squad pumped six submachine-gun bullets into John Taylor, 34, Northern Ireland's Minister of State for Home Affairs, as he started to drive home in Armagh. Taylor, who is boss of Ulster's security forces, was the first victim of a deliberate political assassination attempt. Though he was hit in the jaw, throat, chest and hand, Taylor survived after two emergency operations. But the murder attempt, less than a month after Bloody Sunday and three days after Bloody Tuesday, indicated that Ulster's cycle of violence was speeding up again.