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Jackboot Unionism. Protesting what they regarded as a sellout, 6,000 Protestant shipyard workers walked off their jobs and marched on Belfast's city hall, carrying Union Jacks and the red cross flag of Ulster. William Craig, the right-wing former Home Minister who heads the militant Ulster Vanguard, warned that "Ulster is closer to civil war today than it was yesterday." He called for a massive, two-day strike this week by Protestant workers who man Ulster's public services, and vowed that the shutdown would be only the beginning. "We have the power to make government...
Clearly some dramatic stroke had been needed to halt the campaign of I.R.A. bombings, which reached a bloody climax in Belfast last week. There, pedestrians crowding a busy shopping street sought refuge in a narrow thoroughfare after police received a series of telephoned warnings that a bomb was due to go off in a nearby street. Suddenly 100 Ibs. of gelignite exploded-not where it had been said to be, but in a car parked amid the fleeing shoppers. In the heaviest daylight toll to date, six were killed and 146 injured. Two days later, another bomb exploded, near...
Flying in from Belfast, Northern Ireland's tough, pragmatic Prime Minister Brian Faulkner first learned the contents of Heath's package. He accepted in principle an easing of internment, and Heath's plan for periodic plebiscites on Ulster's political future (the results are entirely predictable, since the Protestants have a 2-to-1 majority). But Faulkner balked at a London takeover of Ulster's security, and for nine hours argued that it would make Stormont "a mere sham and face-saving charade." Faulkner flew back to Belfast and then, with Cabinet backing, returned...
AUGUST 1969. British troops were sent to Ulster to maintain order after an outbreak of rioting in Londonderry and Belfast...
...I.R.A. were not trouble enough, Northern Ireland is faced with yet another threat to what remains of peace: the prospect of a militant Protestant backlash. One Catholic youth was killed in his Belfast home last week by two men who police think might have been Protestant extremists. Publications put out by such militant organizations as the Loyalist Association of Workers have grown tougher in their statements regarding the need to "destroy for all time this evil in our midst." At week's end, more than 50,000 Protestants staged a mass rally to display their solidarity against a "sellout...