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"The British government won't know what has hit it," boasted Andy Tyrie, "supreme commander" of the Ulster Defense Association, Northern Ireland's largest Protestant private army (estimated membership: 5,000 to 10,000). "We've had seven years of violence, and unless we act now, we...
In fact, killings and bombings by the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army have been cut drastically this year. That did not stop the militant Protestant followers of the Rev. Ian R.K. Paisley, the working-class rabble-rouser who is as contemptuous of what he calls the "bluestocking brigade...
The strike was called at midnight Monday. Next morning, Protestant thugs in Belfast turned out to terrorize shopkeepers, block roadways and telephone anonymous threats to workers who went to their jobs. They poured sugar in gas tanks, fired shots at a school bus and bombed a rail line. When Mairead...
Alas for Paisley, his chances now seem dimmer than ever. On the first day of the strike, 30% of Protestant workers in Belfast stayed away from their jobs; by the third day, the absentees had dropped to 10%. Employers and trade union leaders agreed with Mason that a prolonged strike...
The Church in the Power of the Spirit, by the Rev. Jürgen Moltmann (Harper & Row; 401 pages; $15). Germany is to Christian theology what France is to wine, and Moltmann, 51, a colleague of Küng's at the University of Tubingen, is one of its...