0:00:39 > 0:00:41# Mother, mother
0:00:42 > 0:00:46# There's too many of you crying
0:00:48 > 0:00:52# Brother, brother, brother
0:00:52 > 0:00:55# There's far too many of you dying... #
0:00:55 > 0:00:58Now that the impetus of the civil rights movement as it was
0:00:58 > 0:01:00has died away,
0:01:00 > 0:01:03some Catholics are turning out on the street in a weird frustration
0:01:03 > 0:01:07inspired by the feeling that nothing tangible has happened
0:01:07 > 0:01:08to change their lot.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11They throw their rocks because
0:01:11 > 0:01:14the Unionists are still in Stormont Castle,
0:01:14 > 0:01:17unemployment is still soaring.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20# War is not the answer
0:01:20 > 0:01:25# For only love can conquer hate... #
0:01:25 > 0:01:28The IRA, in its new vigour, has found a fertile breeding ground.
0:01:34 > 0:01:38A 19-year-old girl was tied up last night and jeered at by women
0:01:38 > 0:01:41and others after she'd had her head shaved
0:01:41 > 0:01:44and been tarred and feathered all over her head.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47All because she'd been going out with a British soldier.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50What do you think about it? It's the best thing to do.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53What would you do if you found your daughter going out with a British soldier?
0:01:53 > 0:01:56I would hand her out to the women who took the girl last night.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58And have her tarred and feathered? Yes.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01Are you in favour of tarring and feathering?
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Wholeheartedly, yes, I am in favour of it.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06Are you in favour of it? Definitely. Yes.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09And are you in favour of it? Definitely. And all my friends are.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23In the last few weeks,
0:02:23 > 0:02:25there's been a very dramatic and very real revival
0:02:25 > 0:02:30in the IRA's savage role in Irish politics.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33One British soldier is dead and several others badly wounded.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Gentlemen, you are members of the Provisional IRA? Yes, that's right.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54That's correct.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58Your reputation in England at the moment is as a bunch of cold-blooded murderers.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Can you say anything that would change anybody's opinion on that?
0:03:30 > 0:03:33We don't believe that the situation has developed far enough politically
0:03:33 > 0:03:38to take armed action against the British forces now.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40There hasn't been any successes
0:03:40 > 0:03:42from the efforts that have been made up to now
0:03:42 > 0:03:45of uniting the Protestant and Catholic working classes in the North,
0:03:45 > 0:03:49and I think that this is the first ascension to a struggle against British imperialism.
0:04:05 > 0:04:09The three dead soldiers are still lying in the pathway in a ditch up
0:04:09 > 0:04:14there, up a cart track just off the main road out of North Belfast.
0:04:14 > 0:04:19# Amazing grace
0:04:19 > 0:04:25# How sweet the sound... #
0:04:25 > 0:04:29Young David McCaughey, who was 19, was on guard,
0:04:29 > 0:04:31so didn't go out with his brother.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33I had him in to talk to him.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35I gave him a whisky.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38I found, in fact, it was I needed the whisky, not him.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40He was a courageous lad.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42He took the news extremely well.
0:04:42 > 0:04:49# ..was lost But now I'm found
0:04:49 > 0:04:54# Was blind but now... #
0:04:54 > 0:04:57Tell them what you want!
0:04:57 > 0:05:00WOMAN SHOUTS
0:05:00 > 0:05:03Do you think internment would really solve the situation or bring peace?
0:05:03 > 0:05:05It will. It will.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08The security forces know the men in this town that has the guns
0:05:08 > 0:05:10that are using them.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13We are not trying to provoke,
0:05:13 > 0:05:16but we know that the powers lie with the government to intern leaders
0:05:16 > 0:05:18of the subversive movement.
0:05:18 > 0:05:25# I once was lost
0:05:25 > 0:05:31# But now I'm found
0:05:31 > 0:05:47# Was blind but now I see... #
0:05:47 > 0:05:50MEN CHANT
0:05:52 > 0:05:56# Knock three times on the ceiling if you want me
0:05:58 > 0:06:03# Twice on the pipe if the answer is no
0:06:03 > 0:06:06# Oh, my sweetness
0:06:07 > 0:06:11# Means you meet me in the hallway
0:06:11 > 0:06:14# Whoa, twice on the pipe
0:06:14 > 0:06:17# Means you ain't gonna show... #
0:06:17 > 0:06:20I'm always tempted when they hold these things in front of me
0:06:20 > 0:06:21to say something very rude.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24I know. Spoiling their soundtrack for them.
0:06:24 > 0:06:30# Pulling the string with the note that's attached to my heart
0:06:31 > 0:06:35# Read how many times I saw you
0:06:35 > 0:06:38# How in my silence I adore you... #
0:06:38 > 0:06:42I was responsible in the first step on the ladder.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44And after all, if you can do that,
0:06:44 > 0:06:46you're glad when you see somebody get up top.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50MUSIC: Move On Up by Curtis Mayfield
0:06:59 > 0:07:01# Hush now, child... #
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Is it as bad as it looks? I'm afraid so.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09# Your folks might understand you
0:07:09 > 0:07:11# By and by
0:07:12 > 0:07:14# Just move on up
0:07:16 > 0:07:18# Toward your destination... #
0:07:18 > 0:07:22I say Faulkner must go!
0:07:22 > 0:07:24Hear, hear!
0:07:24 > 0:07:30And I go further tonight and I tell you, Faulkner will go!
0:07:30 > 0:07:32CHEERING
0:07:37 > 0:07:41MUSIC: Get It On by T Rex
0:07:47 > 0:07:50# Well, you're dirty and sweet clad in black
0:07:50 > 0:07:53# Don't look back and I love you
0:07:53 > 0:07:56# You're dirty and sweet, oh yeah
0:07:59 > 0:08:01# Well, you're slim and you're weak
0:08:01 > 0:08:05# You've got the teeth of the hydra upon you
0:08:05 > 0:08:09# You're dirty sweet and you're my girl
0:08:11 > 0:08:15# Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
0:08:18 > 0:08:23# Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
0:08:30 > 0:08:32# Well, you're built like a car
0:08:32 > 0:08:36# You've got a hub cap diamond star halo
0:08:36 > 0:08:39# You're built like a car, oh yeah
0:08:41 > 0:08:43# Well, you're an untamed youth
0:08:43 > 0:08:47# That's the truth with your cloak full of eagles
0:08:47 > 0:08:51# You're dirty sweet and you're my girl
0:08:53 > 0:08:58# Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
0:09:01 > 0:09:05# Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
0:09:12 > 0:09:14# Well, you're windy and wild
0:09:14 > 0:09:18# You've got the blues in your shoes and your stockings
0:09:18 > 0:09:22# You're windy and wild oh yeah... #
0:09:22 > 0:09:26If a person in a government office can suddenly just issue a statement
0:09:26 > 0:09:30that you are not allowed to do such and such a thing because
0:09:30 > 0:09:33those who are dedicated to the overthrow of the state threaten something,
0:09:33 > 0:09:35then this is a wrong use of law.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48# You went away and left me long time ago... #
0:09:48 > 0:09:54The system of government established here in 1920 has obviously failed
0:09:54 > 0:09:58and we are asking them to make changes in that system now in order to ensure
0:09:58 > 0:10:01participation by both sections of the community.
0:10:01 > 0:10:02# I hear you knocking
0:10:02 > 0:10:06# But you can't come in... #
0:10:06 > 0:10:10I hope that in this way we will indicate to the whole Ulster community
0:10:10 > 0:10:13that the Northern Ireland Parliament is really a Parliament for all the
0:10:13 > 0:10:15people of Northern Ireland.
0:10:17 > 0:10:22This latest trouble in Londonderry follows an incident last night when
0:10:22 > 0:10:25a soldier opened fire on a crowd
0:10:25 > 0:10:29who had been rioting for about two hours.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33The Army's version is that the man who was shot,
0:10:33 > 0:10:36and eventually died in a hospital in Letterkenny,
0:10:36 > 0:10:37was carrying a rifle,
0:10:37 > 0:10:41but this is disputed by the people who live down in Bogside.
0:10:44 > 0:10:49The deaths in Derry were a final but important straw.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51If, as responsible public representatives,
0:10:51 > 0:10:55we were unable to obtain action on an issue such as this,
0:10:55 > 0:10:59an issue which has outraged our constituents,
0:10:59 > 0:11:02what role is there for us in the present parliamentary system?
0:11:10 > 0:11:14The businessman who's behind production of most of them didn't want to be interviewed,
0:11:14 > 0:11:16but he insists he wasn't politically motivated.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19He's in the textile trade,
0:11:19 > 0:11:22and he says he was backing a hunch when he ordered the first 10,000.
0:11:22 > 0:11:27This gamble has obviously paid off, for he has now sold 46,000.
0:11:27 > 0:11:28Morning, sir. Good morning.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32I see you are wearing the Ulster emblem.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34Are you wearing it in preference to the Union Jack this year?
0:11:34 > 0:11:38Yes. Why? Well, I think because it's the flag of Ulster.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41The Union Jack comes under Great Britain,
0:11:41 > 0:11:43and I think it's only right because you are in Ulster
0:11:43 > 0:11:47to wear the red hand of Ulster as the emblem of Ulster.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55# So we waved our hands as we marched along
0:11:55 > 0:11:58# And the people smiled as we sang our song
0:11:58 > 0:12:03# And the world was saved as they listened to the band
0:12:03 > 0:12:06# And the banner man held the banner high
0:12:06 > 0:12:09# He was ten feet tall and he touched the sky
0:12:09 > 0:12:14# I wish that I could be a banner man
0:12:14 > 0:12:17# And the drums went boom and the cornets played
0:12:17 > 0:12:19# And the tube oompahed all the way
0:12:19 > 0:12:23# And the kids and the dogs were laughing as they ran... #
0:12:23 > 0:12:25What can I do for you this morning?
0:12:25 > 0:12:30Do you feel that last night's explosion set the 12th off in the wrong manner?
0:12:30 > 0:12:34Last night's explosions don't surprise me at all.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07All right, let's leave this place now.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10I shall leave and then all of you leave. Well, you leave first.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12Let's leave it as it is.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15Very well. I will take my soldiers away first.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56And first, the headlines...
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Two men have died in rioting in Belfast after a big round-up
0:13:59 > 0:14:03of suspects this morning, which was followed by an official announcement
0:14:03 > 0:14:04that there is to be internment.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16The main target of the present operation is
0:14:16 > 0:14:18the Irish Republican Army.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21I cannot guarantee that the actions we have now taken will bring this
0:14:21 > 0:14:24campaign swiftly to an end.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27We may yet have to endure as a community,
0:14:27 > 0:14:30but if we endure with courage and steadiness,
0:14:30 > 0:14:34the utter defeat of terrorism is sure.
0:14:34 > 0:14:39MUSIC: Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who
0:14:48 > 0:14:52# We'll be fighting in the streets
0:14:52 > 0:14:55# With our children at our feet
0:14:55 > 0:14:59# And the morals that they worship will be gone... #
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Where are you going now? I don't know where I'm going.
0:15:02 > 0:15:0455 Derwent Street.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07And we are wrecking the house as soon as the woman moves out to make sure that no Taigs get into it.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Come on. Move on. OK.
0:15:09 > 0:15:14# They decide and the shotgun sings the song... #
0:15:16 > 0:15:19There wasn't much rioting last night,
0:15:19 > 0:15:22little stone throwing and no pitch battles between the troops and the mobs.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25Instead the bullets flew,
0:15:25 > 0:15:28turning the night into one of the most dangerous and frightening that
0:15:28 > 0:15:30I've known in the city.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36The British Army is claiming a major defeat on the IRA.
0:15:36 > 0:15:41Today Brigadier Marston Tickell insisted that the internment of men
0:15:41 > 0:15:45arrested on Monday had been a catch up to the Army's highest expectations,
0:15:45 > 0:15:49that the soldiers had killed 20 to 30 men in the fighting
0:15:49 > 0:15:53and so defeated the hardcore of the gunmen.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00# The change it had to come
0:16:00 > 0:16:04# We knew it all along
0:16:04 > 0:16:07# We were liberated from... #
0:16:07 > 0:16:08The British Army seem to think
0:16:08 > 0:16:11that they've now got hold of the leaders of the IRA.
0:16:11 > 0:16:12What do you say to this?
0:16:12 > 0:16:15They've arrested one brigade officer and one battalion officer.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19The others are what we term as volunteers or privates.
0:16:19 > 0:16:23You mean that they haven't even got near the leaders at all?
0:16:23 > 0:16:24They haven't, no.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28Since the soldiers become well known in the streets they patrol,
0:16:28 > 0:16:31hostility can become fixed on an individual.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34You seem to be a fairly unpopular man here in the Clonard.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38Does it bother you? Not really. I've got the gun, they haven't.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40It's been said that the Army's got a couple of months to finish it.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44What'll happen then, do you think, if the Army hasn't brought peace?
0:16:44 > 0:16:47The Protestants will take it in their own hands and they'll finish it.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50Do you think that the Protestants are strong enough to take it
0:16:50 > 0:16:51into their own hands? Yeah.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53What's holding them back at the moment?
0:16:53 > 0:16:55They don't want to fight against the Army.
0:16:55 > 0:16:59Just now, they think we're their soldiers fighting for them.
0:16:59 > 0:17:04And they don't seem to realise, if they take up the gun, on their side,
0:17:04 > 0:17:07we're just as liable to shoot them as we are to shoot anybody else,
0:17:07 > 0:17:09you know?
0:17:09 > 0:17:12# Where's your mama gone? Where's your mama gone?
0:17:12 > 0:17:16# Little baby Don Little baby Don
0:17:16 > 0:17:20# Where's your mama gone? Where's your mama gone?
0:17:20 > 0:17:24# Far, far away... #
0:17:24 > 0:17:28Mr Lynch now clearly commits himself and his government to support by
0:17:28 > 0:17:32political means what the IRA seeks to achieve by violent means,
0:17:32 > 0:17:36the overthrow of the Government of Northern Ireland.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38# Far, far away
0:17:38 > 0:17:44# Far, far away... #
0:17:44 > 0:17:48Mr Wilson and Mr Heath are agreed on one thing.
0:17:48 > 0:17:53And that agreement must be burst right open.
0:17:53 > 0:17:58They are agreed that there shall be no third force.
0:17:58 > 0:18:03We say there must be a third force!
0:18:05 > 0:18:08# It's a god-awful small affair
0:18:09 > 0:18:12# To the girl with the mousey hair
0:18:13 > 0:18:17# But her mummy is yelling no
0:18:17 > 0:18:20# And her daddy has told her to go
0:18:21 > 0:18:25# But her friend is nowhere to be seen
0:18:25 > 0:18:28# Now she walks through her sunken dream
0:18:28 > 0:18:32# To the seat with the clearest view... #
0:18:32 > 0:18:36The car had come into the area and went down a particular street
0:18:36 > 0:18:39where the barriers are sealed off and they allocate men to go down
0:18:39 > 0:18:41different streets and take the necessary action.
0:18:41 > 0:18:42What sort of action?
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Which would be putting planks across the road with nails in them.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49To puncture the tyres to get the car demobilised.
0:18:49 > 0:18:56# As they ask her to focus on sailors fighting in the dance hall
0:18:56 > 0:19:01# Oh, man, look at those cavemen go... #
0:19:01 > 0:19:03How do you defend yourself?
0:19:03 > 0:19:07We have no arms and we have no intentions of holding arms, because
0:19:07 > 0:19:10if anything did happen,
0:19:10 > 0:19:14then we would be treated as armed rebels
0:19:14 > 0:19:17just the same as the rebels that would be attacking us.
0:19:17 > 0:19:22MUSIC: My Sweet Lord by George Harrison
0:19:47 > 0:19:49One day it may be possible like a fairy story
0:19:49 > 0:19:51for everybody in this whole world,
0:19:51 > 0:19:54not just here, not just anywhere,
0:19:54 > 0:19:56to live together in peace and happiness.
0:19:56 > 0:19:57# My Lord
0:19:58 > 0:20:01# I really wanna see you
0:20:02 > 0:20:06# I really wanna be with you
0:20:07 > 0:20:12# I really wanna see you, Lord but it takes so long, my Lord
0:20:14 > 0:20:17# My sweet Lord... #
0:20:17 > 0:20:19I heard a knock at the door.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22I was sitting in my office and the door knocked.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25I went out to open the door and just as that, this fella had a gun,
0:20:25 > 0:20:27got me behind the door.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31Then after that, a whole crowd of fellas came in and planted a bomb in the showroom,
0:20:31 > 0:20:34and then went in and planted a bomb in the workshop.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37# I really want to show you, Lord
0:20:37 > 0:20:40# But it won't take long, my Lord
0:20:40 > 0:20:44# Hallelujah My sweet Lord
0:20:44 > 0:20:48# Hallelujah Mmm, my Lord
0:20:48 > 0:20:52# Hallelujah My sweet Lord
0:20:52 > 0:20:55# Hallelujah... #
0:20:55 > 0:20:58I have urged Mr Faulkner very, very strongly
0:20:58 > 0:21:02that he ought to try and take account as much as he can of
0:21:02 > 0:21:05the views of the elected minority leaders.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09I hope he can do that, and unless he does that,
0:21:09 > 0:21:14the minority leaders will find it difficult to come and talk to him,
0:21:14 > 0:21:17and I think it is necessary that they must be brought into the picture.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21There was a genuine, honest invitation to participate.
0:21:21 > 0:21:26The basic aim is to provide what I hope will be a sensitive,
0:21:26 > 0:21:29understanding, realistic Catholic voice in the Cabinet.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42And the Army's chief theoretician on this subject of counter insurgency,
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Brigadier Frank Kitson,
0:21:44 > 0:21:48has today published an assessment of this kind of warfare.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52Clearly the aim of the Government ultimately is to regain and retain
0:21:52 > 0:21:55the allegiance of the people,
0:21:55 > 0:21:59but you can't necessarily equate each individual measure with that,
0:21:59 > 0:22:03and it is sometimes necessary to do unpleasant things which lose
0:22:03 > 0:22:07a certain amount of allegiance for a moment
0:22:07 > 0:22:10in order to produce your overall result.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14# War is hell When will it end?
0:22:14 > 0:22:20# When will people start getting together again? #
0:22:20 > 0:22:22When I opened the door,
0:22:22 > 0:22:25an officer put a pistol against my head and said, "Roberts."
0:22:25 > 0:22:26I said, "No, Rogers."
0:22:28 > 0:22:30He said, "I want you under the Special Powers Act."
0:22:30 > 0:22:32And I got the first bag on my head.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34A very tight-fitting bag.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36And the minute it went over my head,
0:22:36 > 0:22:38I lost contact with the outside world.
0:22:38 > 0:22:44And you were made to run a gauntlet of military Red Caps and RUC men
0:22:44 > 0:22:48from the door of the army barracks out to a helicopter
0:22:48 > 0:22:50which had its rotaries whirring.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52You didn't know how far up you were getting,
0:22:52 > 0:22:55but coming down, all of a sudden we were kicked out.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Men were just screaming.
0:22:57 > 0:23:01The noise was driving me crazy, and the thirst
0:23:01 > 0:23:03was driving me crazy.
0:23:03 > 0:23:07And I just wanted to die quick.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10The Special Branch men who were interrogating me seemed
0:23:10 > 0:23:12rather embarrassed and they said, nothing to do with us.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14This was just the Army.
0:23:14 > 0:23:19To me, it'd be lucky if some of us 12 men don't end up insane going
0:23:19 > 0:23:21through this torture.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23I come away from here reinforced
0:23:23 > 0:23:26that internment was the right solution.
0:23:26 > 0:23:31# Something tells me something's gonna happen tonight
0:23:33 > 0:23:39# I read in the papers that Gemini people would make it tonight
0:23:41 > 0:23:46# Stars will be shining my sign is aligning with love
0:23:47 > 0:23:49# So come on and make it
0:23:49 > 0:23:53# Let's take everything that we've been dreaming of... #
0:23:53 > 0:23:58Reactions to Mr Wilson's plan were predictably mixed and passionate.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02I think if we had a united Ireland, everything would be all right.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04It'd be brilliant. If we just pulled the British troops out
0:24:04 > 0:24:06and leave us to fight our own battles.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Protestant people of the North of Ireland
0:24:09 > 0:24:11would not approve of his plans.
0:24:11 > 0:24:15Why not? Well, you've only to see it for yourself.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17We wouldn't approve of it.
0:24:17 > 0:24:22# So get it together you'll see it's gonna be all right
0:24:24 > 0:24:29# Something tells me something's gonna happen tonight... #
0:24:44 > 0:24:48The wee newspaper boy shouted at me, "Mister, don't go in there,
0:24:48 > 0:24:51"they planted a bomb." And he ran by me.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Did the man do anything to the parcel?
0:24:53 > 0:24:56He lit a match. He lit it.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59He lit something at the side of the parcel?
0:25:01 > 0:25:06If people believe that there is a hell, I can feel it.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10It was in there today.
0:25:11 > 0:25:17The people that are going to look at this, that is what it's like.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19There's it there.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56# It's coming on Christmas
0:25:56 > 0:25:59# They're cutting down trees
0:25:59 > 0:26:04# They're putting up reindeer and singing songs of joy and peace
0:26:04 > 0:26:07# Oh, I wish I had a river
0:26:07 > 0:26:12# I could skate away on... #
0:26:12 > 0:26:15And an official IRA unit was sent here to destroy the house as
0:26:15 > 0:26:19a reprisal for what was called the destruction of working-class houses
0:26:19 > 0:26:22and property by British troops in Northern Ireland.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25Senator Barnhill was accidentally shot.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28A statement says that they informed his wife that her husband was dead.
0:26:28 > 0:26:32She ran from the house to her neighbour's about half a mile away.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35And when she had gone, the IRA unit said that they went ahead
0:26:35 > 0:26:37with their task and blew up the house.
0:26:43 > 0:26:47Belfast's full team of 25 collectors visited streets where they hadn't
0:26:47 > 0:26:49been seen for six months.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52And they had a company of Queen's Own Highlanders to look after them.
0:26:52 > 0:26:56The ratio of riflemen to meter men being more than three to one.
0:26:56 > 0:27:01In the event, the meter men didn't find any cash shortages much greater than they expected.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03They'd been called in because local people with meters full
0:27:03 > 0:27:07to overflowing were worried that their Christmas gas supplies
0:27:07 > 0:27:09might be affected, so they asked the Army about it.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11The Army asked the gas board.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14And the gas board asked its meter men.
0:27:14 > 0:27:18They agreed to do the job, but only if they got full protection.
0:27:18 > 0:27:23# Yes, there were times I'm sure you knew
0:27:25 > 0:27:30# When I bit off more than I could chew... #
0:27:30 > 0:27:37We in Britain will do all we can to help you to find solutions to your
0:27:37 > 0:27:39problems here in Northern Ireland.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43And solutions which can be found by agreement,
0:27:43 > 0:27:50by consent and not imposed by the force of intimidation and terror.
0:27:50 > 0:27:55# And did it my way... #
0:27:56 > 0:28:00Fear not, for behold I bring you tidings of great joy that shall
0:28:00 > 0:28:02be to all people.
0:28:02 > 0:28:07For this day is born to you a saviour who is Christ the Lord.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11I thank you all for my little son and I shall keep all these things
0:28:11 > 0:28:16in my heart. If you love him, keep his commandments.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18# So this is Christmas
0:28:20 > 0:28:23# And what have you done?
0:28:25 > 0:28:28# Another year over
0:28:30 > 0:28:32# And a new one just begun
0:28:35 > 0:28:37# And so this is Christmas
0:28:39 > 0:28:42# I hope you have fun
0:28:44 > 0:28:47# The near and the dear ones... #
0:29:00 > 0:29:01The case against you is too strong.
0:29:01 > 0:29:05It's not a question of whether you'll be found guilty, but when.