ABSTRACT
The British expressed doubt that the Irish Republican Army (IRA) could control the English bombing units. For the most part, however, the ceasefire meant no casualties for the British and the IRA, and politics as usual for the Northern parties. For the Loyalist paramilitaries it was a brutal lesson that their people were equally vulnerable if tit-for-tat murder became an IRA policy. The Northern Ireland Office quickly set up a tour of the Maze for journalists – Britain's most modern prison. The Provos certainly intended that the candidates did not forget Ulster, for it had been obvious for some time that hardly anyone in Britain wanted to be reminded of the Troubles – charges of torture or mistreatment of prisoners had simply made everyone angry. In fact when Governor Carey of New York complained about this and urged that new initiatives were needed, everyone was again angry at an ignorant and biased Irish-American interfering in a British election campaign.
