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...with barely excessive hyperbole, though, that ex-Prime Minister Brian Faulkner has called this week's election "the most crucial in Northern Ireland's history." When voters go to the polls to elect a new legislative body for Ulster, it will clearly be their best, if not their last chance to curb 50 years of trial and terror and finally set the province on the road to rule by reason...
Hard-Liners. Altogether, 210 candidates are representing a total of 17 party labels. Four groups, however, merit special watching. On the Protestant side, there are the long-dominant Unionists, led by Faulkner, and the more militant Loyalists, whose leaders include such hard-liners as William ("King Billy") Craig and the Rev. Ian Paisley. On the Catholic side, there is the Social, Democratic and Labor Party. (The outlawed Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army is not, of course, taking part in the elections; it has urged all Catholics to boycott them.) Somewhat in the middle, trying to establish a nonsectarian...
...single party expects to win a clear majority. Under the newly instituted proportional-representation system (which requires voters to list their preferences for all candidates), even minor groups have a chance of picking up seats. But Faulkner's Unionists should win the most, and the Catholic S.D.L.P. should capture a fair share. Though relations between these two traditional parties were bad at Stormont, there is some hope that they could work together better in the assembly. Says S.D.L.P. Leader Gerry Fitt: "We are willing to take part in any administration which will bring the violence...
...determined to make it fail. Speaking from the back of a Union Jack-draped truck in Portadown last week, King Billy Craig declared: "For four years now, we have had defeat after defeat, humiliation after humiliation. The only thing that is really left to lose is Ulster itself." Faulkner, in turn, has attacked the Loyalist leaders for consorting with the extremist paramilitary Ulster Defense Association. Craig and Paisley, he says, have "bloodstains on their joint program...
...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...