Bloody Sunday Page #4

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about ten coaches

stockpiled at the border.

Just give me

just a wee minute, Declan.

How are you going

to get them in?

I've sent Jimmy up there.

He's sorting it out.

Yeah, that's fine.

It's no bother.

We can't have ten coach loads

sitting there

with marchers on them,

doing nothing.

Relax, relax, it's fine.

We've got them coming down

for about 1:
00.

And what about the stewards?

Stewards are fine;

that's sorted.

And we got Fenner Brockway,

which is great news

but, obviously, he's not going

to march, for the legal reasons.

You'll have to give me

a couple of minutes here.

I need to see Frances.

I'll be in in two ticks,

all right?

Okay, I'm all for you, man

but we need

to kick this thing along, okay?

Listen, I was supposed

to see her last night.

- Please, help me.

- Right, just a minute.

- Right, okay.

- Very quickly, please.

Mr. Cooper,

have you got a moment?

One second.

...or voting

for Simon as well.

Right, well, you go...

I'll follow you up.

Go on you on up

and sort out through six.

- Through six?

- Yes.

Right, right.

Where-Where were you?

What happened to you?

I had meetings.

I'm sorry.

We're having a nightmare

with this charge.

Of course you do.

Kevin's not entirely sure

what's going on.

I have to sort it out;

I'm sorry.

Change the record, Ivan.

I'm sick of it.

Hey, wait, hey, wait, Frances.

Listen, give me

a couple of minutes now.

I'm up to me eyes, Ivan.

I have no time for this.

I know that, I know that, but...

I have no time for it, Ivan.

Look, I'll be finished tonight

about 8:
00

We'll do something then, okay?

That's just balls, Ivan

'cause you'll still be sitting

in the bar at 12:00 tonight

listening to the sound

of your own voice.

You know it and I know it.

Wrong. Hold on, hold on.

Have you any expectation

anybody's going to turn out

for you this afternoon?

I would have thought so.

I think they've always

turned out for us in the past

and this is our big push today.

This is a march about peace

and a march about civil rights.

What sort of numbers

were you expecting?

Sorry, will you excuse me?

An hour to be safe.

Come on, that is not fair.

Just one second, please.

That is not fair to say that.

Don't you talk to me about fair.

Please, Cecilia, would you

take that for me, love?

Don't you talk to me about fair.

I'm a Catholic girl, Ivan.

You look me straight in the face

and say that again.

I know you're a Catholic girl.

That's the whole point

about this, for heaven's sake.

Come on, darling.

Let me tell you something.

I am up to my eyes, Ivan.

You're not the only one.

I have the world's press in here

wanting things done

not now but yesterday.

It's about the two of us.

Cecilia, for me, love, please.

Come on, Frances, darling

I know it's hard, but please...

one last big push, eh? Come on.

Yes, just one wee second,

please.

Will you just take care of that

for me, please?

You're getting very late.

One second.

The British Army's surrounded

the entire city.

Well, I think that shows you

that they are very threatened

by the voice that we are trying

to get across here.

But is this not...?

That's about them;

that's not about us.

We're trying to have a peaceful

march against internment

and a peaceful march

for civil rights.

They're alleging that you're

creating a confrontation.

Well, what do you think

they would say?

What we need to do is

split each...

All right, sorry, folks.

This is Fort George.

Mm-hmm.

This is... RUC station.

That's in Rosemont.

So, what we do is we come in

from different routes in turn.

They come in from the south,

and come in near Rosemont.

Excellent idea, Eamonn.

No, that won't work.

It will work, Ivan.

We confuse them, we get them

to spread their troops.

No, I'm saying it won't work.

Have you something to say here?

I'm saying,

"Forget about the Guildhall. "

I've just come from there

this morning.

I've walked through there.

They're building up

a massive military presence.

If we take the lorry down there

with thousands behind it

we're not going to get through,

we're...

This is completely wrong.

I don't think,

I don't think it's actually...

I don't think it's responsible

for us to say

it's going to be fine

just because

we want it to be fine.

We do have to look

at the realities

that there is a very severe

dispersal problem there.

I am not taking a reroute.

I am not taking a reroute,

and I'm not selling out.

- You're not what?

- It's not a sellout.

Oh, no, here, wait, Kevin.

Wait, excuse me,

say that again, please.

You're not, what,

you're not selling out?

Bernadette, I have been marching

in this city

just as long as you

and your college friends

and I have never

sold anyone out, not ever.

But there are 3,000

British soldiers out there

and I am not going to use

our people like cannon fodder.

Now, either we reroute...

turn right up Rossville Street

hold the meeting

at Free Derry Corner...

or I walk away,

and I will tell my constituents

- to walk away as well.

- You'll do what?

All the work

these people have done...

that's it, up in smoke?

Listen, we delegate two people...

Bridget, you can be one,

John, Eamonn can be another...

to walk down to the Guildhall

symbolically.

That's a good solution.

I just hope everybody knows

in time.

They will, they will.

All right.

Get that sorted out.

Right, um...

Is Lagan there?

It's Cooper.

On the one hand

you've got the Catholics pushing

for all sorts of reforms

with the IRA behind most of it,

and on the other

the Protestants, who, of course,

don't want to give an inch.

Morning, sir.

We can't afford to offend

the Protestant majority,

of course

'cause, uh, they've got

all the guns, for one thing.

Excuse me, sir. Tea's here.

Hello, sir.

I'll take you in

to see the Brigadier now.

Chief Superintendent Lagan, Sir.

Hello, Frank.

Morning, Patrick.

I don't think you've met

Major General Ford

Commander of Land Forces.

Sir, this is

Chief Superintendent Lagan

Londonderry Division.

Sir.

Superintendent, I've heard

a great deal about you

from your Chief Constable.

It's time for us to go.

We're going to shake some hands.

I, um, heard from the march

organizers earlier today.

Sir, um, I heard from the civil

rights leaders earlier today

and spoke to them

early this morning.

Oh, really?

Yes, they're anxious

to avoid a confrontation.

They're not going to march

to the Guildhall.

They're going to stay

within the Bogside, they say.

Oh. So useful to have contacts

in the community.

Maurice.

Unless he's a Roman Catholic,

of course.

What's that all about, Patrick?

Patrick?

What's that all about?

Lt'll be low-key.

Low-key.

The Paras low-key?

Yes, I know, I know.

Excuse me, sir.

All call signs are now in place

and the Paras have confirmed

the cha cha.

Thank you, Charles.

The Paras aren't

a low-key regiment.

Listen, they're the best

for the kind

of mass arrest operation

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