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It was early in the morning of October 12, 1984, and the Prime Minister was yet to sleep. Margaret Thatcher was scheduled to speak at the Conservative Party Conference the next day, and she had yet to finish her statement. Blearily, she rose from her desk to fetch a drink of water from the nearby washroom. As she emptied and rinsed the glass, she heard a thud from above her, then a roar, then--blackness.

Late in the afternoon of the next day, her crushed body was recovered from the scene of the crime. The Prime Minister and five others were dead, and more than 30 injured. The police rapidly began to investigate, but they did not have to look far to find the motive...

The next day, the Provisional Irish Republican Army released a brief statement:

Yesterday, October 12, in the early morning, the Irish Republican Army gave Margaret Thatcher the only peace she had ever given to the people of Ireland. Britain has seen that it cannot occupy our country and torture our prisoners and shoot our people in their own streets and get away with it. Give Ireland peace and there will be no more war. Tiochfaidh ar la.

So, what happens now?
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