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...problem: how to fairly divide the executive spoils between the three moderate parties that together control the Assembly majority-former Prime Minister Brian Faulkner's Protestant Unionists, the Catholic-oriented Social Democratic and Labor Party and the nonsectarian Alliance Party...
Novel Sight. In the end, the dilemma was resolved by an ingenious arithmetical solution. Instead of the twelve-member executive council that Whitelaw had originally envisioned, he and the party leaders settled for an eleven-member coalition Cabinet. It will be headed by Protestant Faulkner as Chief Executive, and include five other Unionists, who will be responsible for finance, commerce, the environment, agriculture and information. The S.D.L.P. emerged with their leader, Gerry Fitt, as Deputy Chief Executive, and three other key portfolios. The eleventh Cabinet member will be Alliance Leader Oliver Napier...
Nonetheless, there was the novel sight of those archfoes, Brian Faulkner and Gerry Fitt, defending each other -as well as themselves-on television. Said Faulkner with a flourish: "In the last six weeks I have seen more constructive debate around that conference table than I have seen in 25 years in politics. Gerry Fitt and I will both work as a strong team, both determined to see that the executive works." Therein lies Ulster's best chance to stop the bloodshed between warring Protestants and Catholics...
...South alike, Aaron believes. The result is a massive literature that skirts the real issues of the War--sometimes coming tantalizingly close, but missing the mark. To prove his point Aaron catalogues the responses of several generations of American writers, starting with Emerson and going all the way to Faulkner...
...Like Faulkner's Quentin Compson, Donald traces his historical urge (and that of C. Vann Woodward, Francis Simkins and other historians from the South) to a wrestling with the contradiction between ideals and practice in the Southern experience...