Word: fitts
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Moderate Catholic leaders, although fearful of the Protestant reaction, voiced a predominant mood of relief that they were no longer governed by the Protestant Unionist Party at the Parliament in Stormont. "Catholics have lost the feel of jackboot Unionism," exulted Gerry Fitt, leader of the Social and Democratic Labor Party. If that mood continued and if the Protestants could be restrained, there was a chance that Heath, with a little bit of luck, might win his gamble...
...Commons produced little more than bitterness and disagreement. It also indicated that Bloody Sunday had radicalized many of the Ulster moderates-notably members of the nonviolent Social and Democratic Labor Party-who until then had still hoped for a rational political solution. A case in point is Gerald Fitt, 45, a Catholic who represents both a district in the Ulster Parliament and the constituency of Belfast West in Britain's Commons. "Until last Sunday," Fitt told the Commons, "I regarded myself as a man of moderation. I have consistently condemned violence." But because of Bloody Sunday, he said, "whether...