The political week in years gone by: Dev's election victory, the Arms Crisis and an historic visit to Buckingham Palace
Front page coverage of the arms crisis in 1972.
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LIMITED OFFERDeputy political editor, Elaine Loughlin, continues her weekly trawl through the archives and highlights some of the major political events which were making the headlines this week in years gone by.
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