Word: unionistic
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...Protestant-dominated Unionist Party, led by former Prime Minister Brian Faulkner, swept the Protestant vote. Most Catholics supported the Social, Democratic and Labor Party (S.D.L.P.). Most disappointing, the moderate and non-sectarian Alliance Party finished a poor fourth, trailing even candidates of the Protestant extremists. Noted the Belfast Telegraph: "The people have spoken and their terms are uncompromising...
Ulstermen have never taken naturally to the political center, if only because they like a little fire and brimstone from their politicians. Moderates, like Ulster's former (1963-69) Unionist Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, too frequently seemed like moral Milquetoasts, beset by a fatal whiff of goodness. Now one encouraging sign is that both the Alliance and Labour parties have almost equal backing from Catholics and Protestants. Recent Alliance recruits include a number of Ulster's senior political figures, among them Sir Robert Porter, former Minister of Home Affairs, three mayors, five Senators and 70 local...
...calls from would-be informers. It was too early, of course, to say that the tides of violence were ebbing, but the British were gaining support for their new plan to give Ulster's Catholic minority a fair share in governing the province (TIME, April 2). The Protestant Unionist Party, which formerly dominated the provincial government, gave qualified approval to the plan, and Britain announced that elections for a new 80-member assembly will be held in June...
...long time, the I.R.A. was winning. By 1972 it had bombed the Protestant Unionist Government at Stormont out of existence. Indeed, only seven months ago, the Proves were still, in the words of one Ulster politician, "on the pig's back." They, more than any other group, held the key to peace or war. Britain's Secretary for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, was dealing with them as a major power, flying them to London in an R.A.F. plane for secret political talks. MacStiofain even got the British to release an internee from prison camp to join the I.R.A...
...politicians, even the extremists, than meets the eye. Among those advocating joint exploration of a "negotiated" independence from Britain is John Taylor, onetime Home Minister in the Stormont Cabinet. Taylor was the target of a machine-gun attack by an l.R.A. faction last year. Although still a hard-fisted Unionist, he has recently made discreet approaches to Northern republicans and now enjoys a vogue among Dublin editorialists. Still, the idea of independence, with its implication of British troop withdrawal, gets a frosty reception in London. "Not on." says Whitelaw, his pale blue eyes glinting. Without British troops in Ulster...