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lii Northern Ireland Petticoat Peace Makers Claiming Success Where British Troops Failed WCTT A On I i i BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) The petticoat peace- makers of Northern Ireland claim to have done a the British army never could in three years of violence--force guerrilla outlaws to lay down their guns. The Provisional wing of the outlawed Irish Republican Army began an indefinite cease-fire Monday following a surge of peace protests led by war-weary women. The peace revolt among Roman Cathoiic women in the staunch IRA strongholds of Belfast and Lon- donderry wa.s a major reason for the guerrillas' decision. The women braved threats IRA, either accidentally or in executions for alleged "trai- torous activities." The last straw for the Lon- donderry women was the slay- ing of a locally born British sol- dier, William Best, home on leave from Germany. The Offi- cial wing of the IRA it killed him for spying for the British.

Mary Barr, a mother of Andersonslown women collect- ed another 30,000. The IRA's Official wing called a truce last month and the did the same last week, giving Northern Ire- land what many see as its last chance for peace. Protestant women al.so have mounted peace campaigns. The Loyalist Women's Action Com- mittee handed in a peace peti- tiuvvi a IJCaUC en children, could take no tion with 90,000 signatures to ri insults from the gunmen their sympathizers. Some and and underwent the traditional tar- and-feathcr punishment oflen meted out to women' who defy the IRA or fraternize with Brit- ish soldiers.

About 25 women, including some young girls, a died in the sectarian fighting that has lorn Northern Ireland. Hun- dreds more have been injured in bomb blasts and gun battles. Hospitals report a major in- crease in nervous disorders among women of the province and thousands more weather the tension on tranquilizers. A major force behind the dis- taff diplomacy that disarmed the gunmen was "Women To- gether," a unique group of Protestant and Catholic women who began to press for peace 18 months ago. "Our group has made a great contribution to the cease-fire but our work is far from fin- ished," said their leader, Moni- ca Patterson, a Belfast Protes- tant.

"There is a massive job of re-conciliation to be done and we will be at the forefront of this." fi i I a McGivern, a housewife from the Catholic Andersonslown district of Bel- fast, said: "Women generally have played a big part in bring- ing about the cease-fire. We spoke out when others kept qui- et." women sparked the pro- fusion of peace protests in the IRA's Londonderry citadel two months ago. The emotional in- tensity of that revolt stunned the gunmen and made them re- alize the escalating violence was eroding their support. As the women's revolt spread to Belfast, where a group of housewives demanded a truce after a woman was cut down in a gunfight between guerrillas and troops, IRA commanders began lo consider a cease-fire. Grandmothers in Londonder- ry joined the peace movement and warned the I A "Stop kill- ing or we'll rim you out." The women were oflen shouted down by IRA militants abused by Catholic women whose sons and husbands have died or been arrested or snubbed by old friends.

The women were encouraged however, by British peace moves which suspended the Protcstijnmoniinated provincial government and made major political concessions 1 0 the Ca- tholic minority. Bui what triggered the peace was the mounting toll of Catholics killed by the more. She got four friends and marched on IRA headquarters demanding the guerrillas stop shooting. IRA hotheads threatened to lar and feather her. Bui Mrs.

Barr, a fervent nationalist who has long supported the IRA British Prime Minister Edward Heath this week. But it was the Catholic worn- Jen who had to defy the guer- to rillas, often their own menfolk. "I'm no leader, I'm no hero- ine," Mrs. Barr, 39, said after cease-lire. "Had young Best i aim of a united Ireland, wa.s I not died I would probably have not deterred.

"Let them comeklone nothing. "But for me and and take me," she said. Refusing to be i i i a Mrs. Barr and her group even- tually gathered 14,000 signa- tures on a peace petition. The for i a a others, it wa.s the act.

I suddenly realized that if they could kill a local man they could turn on any of us." A RULER King Hus- sein of Jordan, pistol by his side, is an interested observ- er the car race sponsored by the Royal Jordanian Rac- ing Club between A a and Aqaba. Register: Danville, Friday, June 30, 1972 Postal Rate Increases Are Approved As Permanent 12-1 WASHINGTON (AP) The Board of governors of the U.S. Postal Service has approved as permanent the postal rate, in- creases now being paid by the average mailer and they will go into effect July 6. "Mail rates for the average citizen will remain as they are now and existing rates for oth- er classes of mail are only slightly modified," said Post- master General E. T.

Klassen in announcing the decision. The nine governors, at a meeting Wednesday, approved in full the recommendation for higher rates made June 5 by the Postal Rate Commission. The action was answered Thursday. The commission recommend- ed a 5.5 per cent reduction, or $78.3 million, in the request made by the governors in Feb- ruary 1971 which would have given the service approximate- ly $1.45 billion. Mail users have been paying most of the higher rates since May 1971 when they were put into effect on a temporary first class and 11 cent airmail rates.

Some large mail user groups are expected to go to court in an attempt to get some of the higher rates repealed. Klassen said: "We need the patient understanding of all postal customers as we make adjustments necessary to pro- vide consistent, reliable mail service without a continued series of rate increases, there may be isolated instances where disruptions occur, and as they do, we will make the nec- essary corrections." Frederick R. Kappel, chair-: man of the board, said "The governors recognize that the in- creased rates will work a tem- porary hardship on some users. The governors are confident that the public will approve and support their determination to have postal rates which are based upon the cost of an ef- ficient postal service properly Fischer Asks More Money To Play Chess By STEPHENS BROENING Associated Press Writer REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer has made a last-minute demand for more money lo play in the world chess championship against Russian Boris Spassky, in- formed sources said Thurd-ay. They reported that the year-old American challenger has sent an i a to the Iceland Chess Federation "two or three days ago," saying he wouJd not show up unless he gol 30 per cent of the gale receipts on top of Ihe unprece- dented sums already guaran- teed.

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