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While Ulster seethed, two governments fell in quick succession under persistent attack from such Protestant extremists as the Rev. Ian Paisley and former Home Minister William Craig. Brian Faulkner, Northern Ireland's third Premier in 23 months, took office last March in a period of rising unrest. As a...
Last week's violence was set off by a tragic accident and the harsh action of a weak government. When a small delivery truck backfired at a traffic light in Belfast, a nervous British sentry apparently mistook the sound for a sniper's shot and gunned down the...
In Dublin, the Irish Republic's Prime Minister John Lynch condemned the Ulster government for resorting to internment, even though he had threatened to invoke it himself last year against Eire's own I.R.A. activists. He also sent his External Affairs Minister, Dr. Patrick Hillery, to London to...
But each inning of violence seems worse than the one before, and another eruption would only strengthen the hand of the Protestant hard-liners like Paisley and Craig, who would be tempted to deal with the Catholics as Oliver Cromwell did. Since those with sufficient influence to succeed him are...
Perhaps the most discouraging feature of Ulster's bloody week was the fact that the militants on both sides, who hold the whip hand, were growing in strength while moderates stood helplessly by. As Ivan Cooper, the only Protestant M.P. among the Ulster Parliament's Catholic opposition, says...