The World - News from Jan. 6, 1986

Britain is planning to reintroduce trial by jury for some offenses in Northern Ireland as a result of the Anglo-Irish accord that gives Dublin a consultative role in the British-ruled province, the Observer newspaper reported in London. Britain plans to allow jury trials for crimes involving firearms and kidnaping but not where guerrilla crime is involved, the newspaper said. Courts in which a judge sits without a jury were set up in 1972 as a measure to prevent intimidation of juries.