i Ireland.

fin Belfast on bicycle
» Sunday, August 8.
40 Ton Street, Falls.
at home. Sat waching
ght. Watched ‘Hamlet’
ped to nail bombs ex-
mm Out 50 yards distant at
‘wullingtree Road. 11.30
Mt to bed after looking
On Street ...
Ws lit. Doors open.
Mt. Tension obvious.
hp eS and bomb blasts.
* in Street like inside of
Painting. Go to bed. Put
nd door.
‘M. approx. Woken by
at door. Breaking tim-
~~ holds for about a
english accents. Flash-
PS on stairs. Room

4 SWings nearer, threat-
Mj, Sutton your lip, mate,
th Quick.”

i peishman’s home is

Rerot in England now,

H,,: Dress. Officer and
Starch house. Take
Uments. One a speech
8 Mac Giolla at ard-
SO take me—at gun-

1 %a
A)
} linea with soldiers. No
°Vement. Quite dark,

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‘Of The Irish Times we are presenting a leaf from the
Mary of Seamus O’Tuathail, former editor of The United
| Which recalls to mind the deathless words written by
Utik in “Notes From the Gallows,” also smuggled out of

Wrote and smuggled out his notes to his wife from a Ger-
st prison in Czechoslovakia where he was ultimately killed.
Mil’s diary was handwritten and passed to the world by a
‘who managed to visit her husband in one of the notorious
ere persons are being detained without charge or trial in

Hear a pistol crack some dis-
tance away. Around corner and
into jeep. Sit down. Other pri:
soners there. One man mistaken
for son. “No talk, you.” Drive
at speed to Albert Street Bar-
racks. More lorries, Saracens
here. More prisoners. Soldiers
threatening and abusive. Look-
ing serious.

Taken into small office one
by one, Personal belongings
taken. Name not believed. It
should be like M. McMillan,
Sean Dunne or John Garland. I
was sorry. Shooed at gunpoint
across rough rubble strewn
yard to barbed wire corral. Put
in with other prisoners. More
coming in. Soldiers saying we
were to be shot. We were “Fen-
ian bastards,” ‘f....’ “Irish
swine,” etc.

After half-hour, taken ~out
one by one. Hands tied in front
with strips of cotton. Frog-
marched to lorries (two). About
25 prisoners in all by now.

Could hear crowds jeering
and cheering. Bomb blasts.
Thompson sub-machine guns

thumping. S.LR.’s. Two plumes
of smoke from fires to be seen.
Onto lorries and sit down. One
—Mr, Brady—has chair kicked
from under him by soldiers as
he gets in. Falls. Gets in second
time. Driven off. More threats.
Rifle butts aimed at feet. Driv-
en to Girdwood Barracks.
Standing waiting to go 1n.
Could see six men taken out

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through door. Struck wrist bad-
ly here. A joint military-R.U.C.
exercise in brutality. Now tak-
en for interrogation to Special
Branch. Two men. Asked soli-
citor. No chance. No comment.
Name, address and little else.

diers with batons each side.
Here we go again and I know
I won’t hold out much longer.
I am at head of column. 19-
year-old (McFarlean) behind.
“You got a certain message,”
says R.S.M. Red Cap to corpo-

by M.P.s_ (military police).
Forced to run and beaten by
batons. Saw them coming back
five minutes later being forced
to crawl on hands and knees
and being beaten. Blood on
head of two. Feet bleeding. Told

not to look by my guard. “You could do four years for _ ral.
Taken in and photographed. refusing to cooperate.” . “Yes.”
Put sitting down in gym with Taken upstairs. Sit on floor “Do it, then.”
about 100 others. Hands untied in crowded room. About 170 “ oo
at door. After one hour Special there—air short and stuffy. I eee on; ee Joteat “the

see Mike Farrell and other P.D.
“Bejasus, the roof’s come in.”
Sit on floor facing portraits of
English Queen and Prince Phil-
ip. See Belfast city councillor,
James O’Kane. See Frank Glade.
He’s been in situations like this ~
before. See a blind man led in.
Another victory for the all-con-
quering British Army. Red caps
compete to threaten men on
floor. Their biggest win since
Waterloo.

Batches of six being called
out and marched off. Some no
shirts. Pyjamas others. Blue
denims and work clothes pre-
dominate. One man led in white
overalls. Taken at work in Ken-
nedy’s Bakery.

About 11.00 a.m. now. Get a
cup of tea. Now I hear my name
called again. What had _ hap-

Branch man starts calling out
names. Batches of six taken
out. Come back breathless,
bleeding and limping. One led
in with blood pouring from
head wound.

Now I hear my own name
called. Six of us in all. Grabbed
on each side at outside door by
M.P.s. Forced to run. Half jump,
half dragged over low stone
wall surround, through rose bed
into field. Helicopter about 70
yards away. Propeller churning.
Door open. “Run you swine.”
Kicked and thumped with bat-
ons. Police dogs snapping at
either side of corridor. Soldiers
jump in way. Knock you down.
Fall and you are picked up.

Kicked up ramp into helicop-
ter. No sooner sitting than told
‘jump out.” Now told “bend

All six now running on sharp
shingle, over a wooden L plank,
onto red bricks upended. Kick-
ing, shouting, baton blows. Big
R.S.M. next to me. “So you're
important, now — you’re not so
important now.” Tries to stamp
on my feet. Misses. Sweet Jesus,
how far to go.

“Through that dump.”  Sol-
dier skirts it. Rotten vegetables,
broken glass, boxes. Now tree
stumps. Hear the thumping of
batons on bodies behind me.
Screaming abuse. Can’t very
well understand English accent
at that pitch. Must be their last
stand.

See prison gates ahead. Flung
down steps into D wing, Crum-
lin Road. Limping and bloody.
But I had survived. Collapsed

down.” Then “run.” Everything pened to the others? . into cell. Forty-eight hours
straightened up to run, kicked. Led out to rear. Barbed wire minus wash and exercise after
Back to gym building. Flung rolls from short corridor. Sol- that.

number of employees, standard
of wages and so on, the new
system stipulates for the enter-
prise only how high the finan-
cial returns to the state should
be, the relations between that
and the growth of wages, and
only regarding certain products
of state-wide importance (a few
dozen in all), also their actual
amount and breakdown. In
everything else the enterprises
are given full authority, which
is of great importance, especial-
ly for strengthening the mater-
ial incentive of work teams and
individuals in production re-
sults.

The newly approved system
of management drops some of
the elements which proved
wrong or not sufficiently effec-

PRAGUE — The Czechoslovak
government recently approved
the draft principles of planned
management of the economy
until 1975, thus giving an an-
swer, at least for the next five
years, to the question as to how
the Czechoslovak economy will
be managed in future. Whether,
after the bad experience of the
years 1967 to 1969 when spon-
taneity and the ensuing difficul-
ties prevailed in economic life,
there would be a return to strict
directive management, or whe-
ther certain possibilities of us-
ing their own initiative would
remain for the various enter-
prises.

In short, Czechoslovakia will
not return to the old system of
management and planning,
which was applied in the early
1960’s, when almost all econo-
mic tasks we directively deter-
mined from the centre. Accord-
ing to the system now approved,
while the basis of management
of the economy is still the state
economic plan, upon which the
plans of the various branches
and enterprises are based, at
the same time tasks of the plan
will be ensured directly wher-
ever it is in the interest of so-
ciety as a whole, and also in-

for example, no binding annual
plan existed—and gave enter-
prises the opportunity of mak-
ing financial manipulations
harmful to society.

The new government docu-
ment on planning and manage-
ment also provides conditions
for the preparation of basic
structural changes, which are
essential for the further devel-
opment of the Czechoslovak
economy. This applies particu-
larly to capital construction, in
which, as opposed to the past,
construction of state-wide im-
portance is now determined by
the plan. On the other hand,
enterprises now have the possi-
bility of making investments

into those products which they
tive in the years 1967-1970, be- believe are the most effective

cause the function of indirect for them and for society and of
management was overrated —a high technical standard.

Award boosts Canadian talent

STRATFORD — The first re-
cipient of the Leo Ciceri Award
is Robert Sage, a 2nd year act-
ing student at the National
Theatre School in Montreal.

The 23-year-old student, a
native of the Eastern Town-
ships, was chosen by NTS direc-
tors from among eligible can-
didates in all areas of the
School’s operation. The award
brings with it a grant of $1,200.

Established at Stratford fol-
lowing the death of Canadian
actor Leo Ciceri last year, the

Leo Ciceri Fund will provide a
scholarship to be awarded an-
nually to a student at the Na-
tional Theatre School.

Conceived by his fellow ac-
tors to honor the memory of a
man always vitally interested
in the training of young people
for work in theatre, the Fund
consists of contributions from
people throughout the
world -who wished to pay tri-
bute to the man and to his be-
lief in the future of theatre in
Canada.

nomic instruments, based upon
commodity-monetary relations.
In reality this means that,
contrary to the old system, —
when the enterprise had detail-
ed instructions on how much
and -what-it should produce, the

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