Word: protestantized
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WATCHING Ulster's troubles is like watching a whole country slide down the drain before your eyes," said a despairing official of Northern Ireland's beleaguered government. "It's like sitting on a powder keg. Things are out of control and we're helpless to do...
To Craig, those needs are simple: sterner measures against rioting Catholics, rearming of the Protestant dominated Royal Ulster Constabulary, internment of suspected terrorists. To less intractable men, the needs are far different, and far more complex. Despite the reforms timidly introduced by Chichester-Clark in response to the 1969 disorders...
The outrageous gerrymandering that foisted Protestant city government on Catholic Londonderry has been abolished. Property qualifications for local elections have been done away with. The police have been disarmed, and the hated Protestant police auxiliary -the notorious "B Specials"-has been disbanded. Yet Catholics claim they still have trouble getting...
"Actors are out-of-the-kitchen socially," he complained, "but not academically-at least not here." Putting forward the idea that the University as it is now formed doesn't recognize the "nobility of making things" (making Protestant clergy doesn't count), he nevertheless hopes that that situation is changing...
Sons of Thunder. Some of the harshest words against abortion have come from church spokesmen. After New York State passed one of the most liberalized abortion laws in the country last year, the Roman Catholic bishops of the state warned Catholics in the medical profession that participation in an abortion...