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Thatcher visits Northern Ireland amid IRA violence surge
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made an unannounced trip to Belfast to meet security chiefs and discuss the IRA bombing campaign and Protestant backlash. Officials said security would intensify after the Mountbatten slaying and a series of retaliatory threats and attacks across Ireland, with Irish Prime Minister Lynch staying away from Lisbon.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Margaret Thatcher
Irish Republican Army
Thatcher
Irish Republic
Lord Mountbatten
Ulster Defense Association
UDA
Humphrey Atkins
Tunisia
IRA
Atkins
London
Britain
Scotland Yard
Jack Lynch
Portugal
Brussels
Belgium
Sligo
Ireland
Earl Mountbatten