Coogan pointed out: ... the aid. though a welcome boost to the recently concluded AngloIrish accord giving Dublin a limited voice in Northern Ireland. is not likely to include what many Irish offl. cdais privately say would be the beat form of assistance Washington could offer Ireland. north and south: permission for more Irish to go to work in Americalegally. Coogan points out that the Irish constitute one of the growing categories of "wetbacks" in the United States. Coogan goes on to note that: The Irish are besieging the American Embassy in Dublin for visas. but the criteria for getting legal emigrant status are set so high that Ronald Reagan himself. were he a boy. probably would not get in. Mr. Coogan makes a good case for relaxing the quota for Ireland where "unemployment denied the safety valve of emigration. stands at some 17.5 percent in the Irish Republic and at more than 22 percent in Northern Ireland. rising in Roman Catholic ghettos there to more than 60 percent." This provides a nearly inexhaustible pool of educated. frustrated young men and women for paramilitary organizations and disaffection of all kinds. That frustration finds an outlet in an antiAmericanism. evidenced by the burning of an American flag in Dublin during the Reagan visit. Mr.
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