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Embarking on what he privately admitted was a "frightening gamble," Whitelaw set up offices in gargoyled Stormont Castle, and held an exhaustive series of meetings with everyone from Unionist politicians to Catholic housewives whose admiration for the I.R.A. was diminishing under the endless violence. Visitors reported that the Scots-born...
Policy of Reconciliation. The Provisionals, who had called for the ceasefire only after hot debate at a secret meeting in the hills just south of the border, might not be able to control their hard-lining Belfast units. On the other side, Northern Ireland's Protestant majority viewed the...
The I.R.A.'s truce offer means that Whitelaw has won valuable time for further political initiatives. As a next move, he would like to convene a meeting on Northern Ireland's future at which all quarreling factions would be represented. The I.R.A.'s cease-fire was obviously...
Britain's proconsul for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, has had to tread a delicate line between the contending Catholic and Protestant communities during his three months in office-and never more so than last week. First, he had to deal with the rising militancy of the Protestant Ulster Defense...
Demonic Dangers. At least some clergymen have chosen the path of investigation. The late Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike was probably the most enthusiastic?and for more orthodox Christians, embarrassing?investigator, claiming to have communicated with his dead son with the aid of the minister-medium the Rev. Arthur Ford...