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Spenser's grim comment was written 400 years ago, but the Irish drama seems to be eternal. The latest chapter in this unhappy story ended last week when the Executive, Northern Ireland's fragile coalition government of Protestants and Catholics, folded under the pressure of a devastating two...
"It was almost like a nervous breakdown," said David Bleakley, a moderate Protestant. "All the little symbols of Protestant order have been going one by one, all the divinely enduring things of ordinary life and their traditions." When Britain's new government failed to heed the signals of the...
ON SECTARIAN CONFLICTS. There are two nations in Ulster. It's wrong to talk of just Protestants and Catholics. The differences are more fundamental than that. The Protestants look upon the Catholics as being a social liability. They present a tremendous social problem because they are far from selfsupporting...
Last week most of Ulster's Protestant workers stayed home, as a sign of their support or because they were intimidated by the bands of cudgel-swinging, paramilitary youths roaming the streets to enforce the strike. Most of Belfast's main roadways were blocked; only doctors and others...
New Roadblocks. Ulster's Provincial Executive, the Protestant-Catholic coalition government led by Protestant Brian Faulkner, so far has taken no action against the strikers. But Len Murray, leader of Britain's Trades Union Congress, attempted to intervene. He flew to Belfast to lead a "back-to-work...