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Originally Posted by jester
Well 68 was a very interesting year.
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You forgot the start of the events leading up to troops being deployed here in Northern Ireland. This tied down a sizeable proportion of the British Army, and also there were rumours of Russian aproaches to support the ROI in forcefully retaking the North so that Ireland could become a kind of European Cuba. Apparently the US also hinted that to stop this they would offer some form of overseas dependancy to Ireland to block the Russians. Obviously it never came to anything, but it could have.....