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WORLD, Page 59World NotesNORTHERN IRELANDPlugging Up The Leaks
Since its formation in 1970, the 6,400-member Ulster Defense
Regiment, the British army's largest, has lost 180 men, nearly all
to terrorists of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Terrorist acts
are also committed regularly by extremists on the Protestant side,
most of them members of paramilitary groups like the illegal Ulster
Freedom Fighters. Last week, acting on growing evidence that
members of the U.D.R. were leaking confidential information on
I.R.A. suspects to such Protestant extremist groups, Belfast police
took the unprecedented step of mounting raids against a fellow
security force. Some 300 members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
detained 28 U.D.R. soldiers. Twenty-two of them were released, and
six were charged with possession of ammunition and a firearm.
The arrests were prompted in part by the murder last August of
Roman Catholic Loughlin Maginn, 29. The appearance of his name on
a leaked list obtained by the Ulster Freedom Fighters is believed
to have led to his death. Last month two U.D.R. men were charged
with Maginn's murder.