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...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...
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...
...Fitt, Mary, Murder of a Mouse...