Word: fitts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...violence that scarred the three-week election campaign. Nearly 90 bombs were detonated and 23 persons killed, bringing the death toll in Ulster during the past four years to 839. Two days before the election, Patrick Wilson, a leading Catholic politician and a chief aide to S.D.L.P. Leader Gerry Fitt, was hacked to death by an apparently new Protestant terrorist group called the Ulster Freedom Fighters. Wilson's murder suggested that members of the new Assembly would have a difficult time ahead of them in governing the still troubled province...
...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...
...Irish Republic. The result is a foregone conclusion, since the Protestant majority overwhelmingly supports British ties. Many Catholics, in fact, have threatened to boycott this week's vote because they know they have not a chance to win. "The results of this referendum," scoffs Catholic Politician Gerry Fitt, "were determined 50 years...
...Catholics to meet with the govern ment since the British began interning terrorist suspects without trial last August. The biggest issue preventing a Catholic reconciliation with the govern ment is internment, even though Whitelaw has released 377 of the 929 men originally held in prison camps. Last week Gerry Fitt, leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, accused the Proves of trying to prolong internment by escalating their bombing cam paign. Said he: "There are still violent men in Northern Ireland who would be lost but " for the fact that internment continues...