Word: protestantizing
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The island's television and radio stations carried live broadcasts of the trial of Luc Desyr, 62, chief of secret police for Baby Doc and before him for his father Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, who died in 1971. The trial, on charges that included illegal arrest, torture and murder, provided...
Summertime is marching time for the Orange Order, a secretive clan that has trooped through the streets of Northern Ireland each summer for more than 150 years to commemorate Protestant triumphs in days gone by. This year, however, the marches threaten to become protests, and the protests skirmishes. Tensions have...
Many now fear that the fuse of Protestant anger could be set alight by the Orangemen's peaceful but boisterously partisan rites. So it is that Irish eyes are anxiously turned to the climax of the year's 1,800 marches this coming Saturday. As many as half a million...
Over the past seven months, Ulster's representatives in Westminster have consistently boycotted parliamentary debates, and British officials have been snubbed at every opportunity. Across the province, walls have been plastered with slogans shouting ULSTER SAYS NO, and up to 10,000 people have enrolled in "Ulster Clubs," Protestant cells...
The threat of further violence has cast a long shadow over the Orangemen marches this summer. The grand master of the Orange Order, the Rev. Martin Smyth, has warned his marshals to be "extra vigilant." Last week Tom King, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, made a public...