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...William Faulkner Intruder in the Dust
...said a despairing official of Northern Ireland's beleaguered government. "It's like sitting on a powder keg. Things are out of control and we're helpless to do anything." Last week a new man was perched atop the powder keg. Former Minister of Development Brian Faulkner, 50, was named to replace James Chichester-Clark as the sixth Prime Minister in Ulster's 50-year history-and the third in the past 23 stormy months. He could also be the last, unless he is able to cope with the growing violence between Ulster's Protestant...
...shirt-factory owner, Faulkner at 28 became the youngest M.P. ever elected to the Unionist Party-dominated Parliament. In his younger days, he was a hard-liner and he has a record of being tough on extremists of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. But more recently he has cultivated a somewhat more middle-of-the-road reputation...
...Faulkner will need all the shrewdness and negotiating skill he is said to possess. Former Home Affairs Minister William Craig, whom Faulkner defeated in a 26-to-4 vote of the Unionist M.P.s, has already warned the new Prime Minister: "If he doesn't respond to the needs of our country, he'll be cut down ruthlessly...
...pace as long as he has something to say, and he is fatalistic about how long that may be. It is foolhardy to predict a young writer's future, but if burgeoning energy and imagination count, McHale's rich shanty Irish may be around as long as Faulkner's Snopeses...