The World: Ulster: Steering Toward Civil War?

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As the week began. 18-month-old Angela Gallagher, killed by a ricocheting bullet fired by a sniper at a British army patrol, was buried in a tiny coffin. By week's end, the toll since the crisis first erupted in August 1969 stood at 102. The latest victims: a British officer who was attempting to defuse a bomb, a three-year-old Belfast boy hit by an armored truck and a 14-year-old Catholic schoolgirl named Annette McCavigan. She had been sent home early because of a bomb threat, and as she strolled along the Bogside's narrow streets, still wearing her gym shoes and sucking a lollipop, she was caught in a crossfire between I.R.A. gunmen and British troops. A bullet struck her in the neck, killing her instantly.