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RUC TEARS FOR SOUVENIRS; As time runs out , thousands of angry officers queue to buy 'betrayal' memento.(News)

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From: The People (London, England)
Date: 20011104
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Byline: LINDSAY FERGUS

THIS is the evocative wall-hanging being sold to enraged RUC men and women across Northern Ireland.

The framed Rudyard Kipling poem entitled 'Ulster' has been put together by retiring officers who make no bones about their feelings of betrayal.

They have drawn on the words of one of the nation's favourite writers, saying patriotic ...

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