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To the young Irish Republican Army soldier from Belfast on a mission to buy firearms, South Florida was a wonderland of weaponry. "We don't have gun shows in Ireland, and you see things here like you never imagined," said Conor Claxton.

To the young Irish Republican Army soldier from Belfast on a mission to buy firearms, South Florida was a wonderland of weaponry. "We don't have gun shows in Ireland, and you see things here like you never imagined," said Conor Claxton.

The arms deal with Iran, though ill-conceived and poorly implemented, was in a sense at least a break from the passive posture that the Reagan Administration has adopted for four years with regard to the three major trouble spots in the Middle East--the Iran-Iraq war, the Lebanon conflict and the Palestinian problem.