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...loyalists" in the United Unionist Action Council called a general strike, Northern Ireland's first in three years, to force the British to renew tough search-and-destroy operations against the terrorists in the Catholic districts and reinstate the majority-rule (meaning Protestant-dominated) provincial Parliament in Belfast. The earlier strike had led to the fall of the provincial government and caused Britain to impose direct rule. This time, however, it was a different story. At week's end it seemed clear that the strike had failed utterly to obtain its goals. The vainglorious act of defiance might...
...strike was called at midnight Monday. Next morning, Protestant thugs in Belfast turned out to terrorize shopkeepers, block roadways and telephone anonymous threats to workers who went to their jobs. They poured sugar in gas tanks, fired shots at a school bus and bombed a rail line. When Mairead Corrigan, leader of the Women's Peace Movement, appeared to wage a counterprotest, they tore up her pacifist placards. Among the opponents of the strike who were subjected to "U.D.A. persuasion" was Thomas Passmore, the leader of the Protestant Orange Order in Belfast. Passmore, whose aged father had been shot...
Alas for Paisley, his chances now seem dimmer than ever. On the first day of the strike, 30% of Protestant workers in Belfast stayed away from their jobs; by the third day, the absentees had dropped to 10%. Employers and trade union leaders agreed with Mason that a prolonged strike could only bring deeper recession to the province, where one worker in ten is already unemployed. At week's end the electric power workers, who could have paralyzed most of Northern Ireland's industry, announced they had voted to stay...
Died. William Cardinal Conway, 64, Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland and 112th pastoral descendant of St. Patrick; after surgery for removal of his gall bladder; in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Born in Belfast, Conway was spiritual leader for Ireland's 3.5 million Catholics, including Ulster's 500,000. The tall, husky Cardinal condemned the civil turmoil in Northern Ireland, calling both Protestant and Catholic terrorists "monsters...
Harvard hockey captain Bill Horton was raised in Sherwood Park Alberta, a suburb of the provincial capital Edmonton. Leading scorer Bill Hozack was born in Belfast, Ireland, but his family emigrated to Edmonton when he was two years old. Winger Murray Dea is the scion of an old Edmonton hockey clan that has already produced two members...