Word: unionistic
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...first time in half a century of domination over Ulster politics, Northern Ireland's Unionist Party appeared last week to be irrevocably split. Only four days after Brian Faulkner, leader of the party, was sworn in as Chief Executive of Ulster's new coalition government, militant Unionist members voted to oppose the Council of Ireland agreement worked out last month between Northern Ireland, Britain and the Irish Republic. The Unionists' Protestant hard-liners viewed the agreement, which calls for regular consultations between Belfast and Dublin, as the first step toward merger with the predominantly Catholic South...
...response to the stinging vote of no confidence, Faulkner walked out of the Unionist Party. He vowed to remain at the helm of the coalition between Protestants and Catholics and to stump the province on behalf of the Council of Ireland agreement. "If I am the only person left on the floor of the Assembly arguing for our present policies, I will continue to do so," he said. "I've been through more politics in the last few days than ever before in my life...
...including Pass's boss, William Jenkins Turnblazer, 52, president of the union's District 19 in the coal fields of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. Turnblazer was a good friend of Boyle, who had given him his job, but Sprague had a hunch that the mild-mannered unionist was a troubled man who knew something. Sprague asked FBI Special Agent Henry Quinn to go after Turnblazer very carefully: "Take all the time in the world...
...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, Democratic and Labor Party (S.D.L.P.) formed the second largest blocs, while the nonsectarian Alliance Party finished a distant and disappointing fourth...
Despite all the violence-another 14 people killed in the past fortnight-the mood of Ulster seems not to be one of despair. Says Mrs. Maureen McClure, an official Unionist candidate in North Down: "Most people today are exhausted by the carnage and destruction." Adds Paddy Devlin of the S.D.L.P.: "A man could say logically 'Oh, Jesus, it's not going to work.' But to my mind, the face of politics will never be the same after this election. Everybody is tired and wants peace. I think we're heading for better times. I feel...