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NY. business community. by our Government agents is new. my sense of injustice at the British handling of the Catholic minority In Northern Ireland Is not. In 1978. I was one of two members of the House Judiciary Committee to investigate Immigration and judicial conditions in Northern ireland. The title of the report issued about that investigation Is: "Northern Ireland: A Role for the United States." This report covers our Inquiry into the current troubles In Northern Ireland. from their inception In the civil rights marches of October 1968. led by Catholics seeking in end to discrimination In voting. housing. and employment. to the Downing Street Deciaration of August 1969. marking the British assumption of the maintenance of law and order in Northern Ireland. to the hunger strikes In the H blocks of Long Kesh Prison. which resulted In the death of Bobby Sands. an elected member of Parliament. and nine other prisoners. The memories of these harsh happenings were refreshed in my mind at the time of the arrest of my constituent.