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--all roads leading into Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, after an explosion severed the four-foot-wide water main at Dunadry. about 10 miles north of Belfast. It provided most of the water to the northern sector of the city, already suffering water shortages in southern neighborhoods from earlier blasts.
Terrorist attacks plague North Ireland
BELFAST — Saboteurs undeterred by British military guards blew up the water main supplying north Belfast today and other extremists firelombed a Roman Catholic school near Londonderry less than 24 hours after the Protestant governing party approved equal voting rights for Catholics.
Officials ordered a military and police alert that sealed off
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Mideast flares up along Suez Canal
SUEZ — Israeli and Egyptian artillery fire raged along the Suez Canal yesterday to Egyptian-held Port Fuaad, Cairo spokesmen said, taking hostilities for the first time since 1967 to that town directly across the canal from Port Said where the Soviet fleet frequently anchors.
The new fighting along the canal and on Israel's eastern front with Jordan came amid fears of a complete collapse of the United Nations cease-fire in the Middle East.
The Egyptian spokesmen in Cairo said artillery batteries battled from Port Fuad to Kantara, about 25 miles to the south, but released no details of damage, casualties, or length of the fighting.
While their troops traded artillery and tank fire across the Suez Canal, Egyptian and Israeli spokesmen continued the diplomatic war of words.
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Mohamed El-Zayyat said in Cairo Egypt would not respect the cease-fire as long as Israel continued to build fortifications along the occupied east bank of the canal.
Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban said, in Jerusalem, peace can be achieved only through negotiations by the disputing parties in the Mideast and not through any outside group.
The Lebanese Cabinet decreed a five-day state of emergency following clashes in Beirut and two other cities between security forces and thousands of demonstrators demanding tougher action against Israel and government support for the Arab commando forces.
unidentified saboteurs had to get past a cordon of British soldiers who were among the units called out Monday at Northern Ireland's request to protect public utilities because of 10 weekend bombings.
The new outbreak of fighting along the Suez Canal was reported by Lt. Gen. Odd Bull of Norway, chief U.N. truce supervisor, in an urgent message to Secretary General Thant in New York. Thant warned Tuesday that a "virtual state of active war" already existed between Egyptian and Israeli forces in the area.
One of these attacks blew up the water main supplying the southern sector of Belfast Sunday night, causing a serious water shortage crisis in the Northern Irish capital. Several post offices were also bombed Sunday and early Monday.
Only yesterday, Prime
Poll adds doubt to de Gaulle's win
PARIS - A newspaper public opinion poll added yesterday to indications President Charles de Gaulle may be forced out of office in Sunday's constitutional referendum.
These indications, including the most severe polling result to date and pessimistic statements from Gaullist leaders, intensified pressure on the French franc and revived speculation it would be devaluated.
Le Figaro, a Paris newspaper, published yesterday the first poll in which a majority of those who had made up their minds said they would vote against the constitutional reforms backed by de Gaulle. All previous polls gave narrow preference to de Gaulle's plan.
Le Figaro said 66 per cent of those polled said they had decided how to vote and, of these, 53 per cent said they would vote "no." The general has said he would resign immediately if his reform plan is rejected.
Minister Terence O'Neill won a narrow approval from his governing Unionist party for the one-man-one-vote principle demanded by Northern Ireland's civil rights movement to protect Catholics from Protestant discrimination.
James Chickester-Clark quit his post as minister of agriculture in protest, warning that the 28-22 vote approval forced from a reluctant party by O'Neill's threat to resign could cause riots, this time by Protestants.
In Roman Catholic areas of Belfast, some families left their homes, fearful that Protestant militants would execute threats to burn them out, police said.
member in February, in commenting on the agreement which will give to every adult the right to vote in local elections. Voting now is limited to property owners.
As tension gripped areas of Belfast which have been ripped by clashes between street crowds and police for three nights, an air of crisis settled over Northern Ireland's Parliament.
O'Neill had given a caucus on Unionist members of Parliament until yesterday to approve universal adult suffrage in a vote on principle that politicians expect will come into effect only in 1971.
Rightwing opponents or O'Neill served notice they will question his ability to lead the party and govern before the Unionist standing committee.
"Too little and too late," said Ivan Cooper, elected to Parliament as a civil rights
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