Word: protestantizing
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Seek and Destroy. Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees-the man responsible for maintaining peace in the province -called the murders "the worst single sectarian killing in Ulster history." Rees was immediately pushed to take action to halt the terrorism and restore confidence in the...
London's response to the new violence was swift and decisive. Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced that some 600 troops from the crack Spearhead Battalion would be dispatched from England to South Armagh. In addition, 400 men of the predominantly Protestant Ulster Defense Regiment were deployed in the county...
Protestants endorsed the tough new measures. "It shows that the government now really intends to do something about terrorism in the province," said William Craig, head of the Protestant Vanguard Party. Catholics, on the other hand, were wary; for years the I.R.A. has charged (and the British army has denied...
Thus, on the eve of Ihe debates and after one of the worst weeks in Ulster's history, an enduring political solution seemed as far away as ever. Following the murder of the ten Protestants, two bombs exploded in Belfast (no casualties were reported), a youth was murdered in...
The Hartford group-mostly Protestant but with a number of Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox joining in the effort-hurled anathemas against 13 "false and debilitating" themes, including the belief that "the struggle for a better humanity will bring about the Kingdom of God."