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...always, his political showmanship was adroit. To muster support, Paisley sat down ostentatiously in Belfast's City Hall last week, behind a table covered with the Union Jack, to sign his name to "Ulster's Declaration," which he had composed. It pledged allegiance to Queen Elizabeth on the part of Northern Ireland Protestants - and promised a fight against "the conspiracy hatched at the Thatcher-Haughey Dublin summit." The "conspiracy" to which he referred was last December's Dublin summit between British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Prime Minister Charles J. Haughey...
Paisley's declaration was not his only melodramatic ploy. Earlier, he had staged a nighttime muster for five Belfast journalists. They were taken in a blacked-out van to a windswept hillside, where they emerged to see 500 men drawn up in military ranks. The men, warned Paisley, were only a fraction of the Protestant force that could fight for continued union...
...continuing. Following a near fatal Protestant assassination at tempt against Catholic Activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband, and the I.R.A. killings of Protestant No table Sir Norman Stronge and his son, an I.R.A. commando scuttled a British col lier off the coast. At the Maze Prison out side Belfast, meanwhile, I.R.A. prisoners announced another hunger strike to begin March 1, similar to the 53-day protest last year that nearly cost the lives of seven prisoners before it was called...
...Provisional I.R.A. quickly claimed responsibility for the killings. A spokesman in Belfast said that the attack was a reprisal for a series of "assassinations and murder attacks on nationalist people." Specifically, the killings were believed to be in revenge for the shooting, a week earlier, of Catholic Activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband Michael. Devlin and her husband survived, but were reported still in serious condition in a Belfast hospital...
...Amid warnings that McKenna had only 24 hours to live, prison authorities brought in a priest to give him the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. After the strike was called off, the fear remained that he might still die even though he was immediately transferred to a Belfast hospital...