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As results of the complicated proportional voting trickled in, it became apparent at week's end that ex-Prime Minister Brian Faulkner's Unionist Party had won about one-third of the 78 seats in the new Assembly. The Loyalists, composed of Protestant hardliners, and the Catholic Social...
Most disturbing was the violence that scarred the three-week election campaign. Nearly 90 bombs were detonated and 23 persons killed, bringing the death toll in Ulster during the past four years to 839. Two days before the election, Patrick Wilson, a leading Catholic politician and a chief aide to...
Hard-Liners. Altogether, 210 candidates are representing a total of 17 party labels. Four groups, however, merit special watching. On the Protestant side, there are the long-dominant Unionists, led by Faulkner, and the more militant Loyalists, whose leaders include such hard-liners as William ("King Billy") Craig and the...
Not so the militant Loyalists. Convinced that the new assembly represents a British sellout of Protestant Ulster-men, the Loyalists are determined to make it fail. Speaking from the back of a Union Jack-draped truck in Portadown last week, King Billy Craig declared: "For four years now, we have...
Presumably, Paul was indicating willingness to make a dramatic symbolic renunciation of the Vatican surroundings that emphasize his position as supreme head of the church. But it hardly seems probable that the Pope has any real intention of moving out of the Vatican. And in any case, he has said...