Word: paisley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each other's faces. This time, perhaps because they realize that time may be running out, the atmosphere was better: Catholic Politician Paddy Devlin was even seen walking with his arm on the shoulder of Northern Ireland's most vociferous apostle of Protestant supremacy, the Rev. Ian Paisley. But atmosphere is one thing, and substance another. The Protestant Loyalists offered to let Catholics serve as chairmen of several key legislative committees, but they maintained that Catholics could not rightly lay claim to any Cabinet posts. The largely Catholic Social Democratic and Labor Party (S.D.L.P.), meanwhile, insisted that...
...stay within the European Economic Community. Despite some fears that there might be a low turnout, leading to an inconclusive result, an estimated 65% of Britons went to the polls and 17,378,581 of them said yes to Europe. Even in Northern Ireland, where the Rev. Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church had warned that "a vote for the Common Market is a vote for ecumenism, Rome, dictatorship and anti-Christ," the pro-EEC cause won by a 52.1% majority. For Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who had staked his political future on the referendum, the vote...
...week's end, with neither London nor the Executive willing to negotiate directly with the U.W.C., the impasse continued. Leaders of the Executive met secretly with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, which may be a prelude to the use of British troops to break the strike. The Rev. Ian Paisley, however, declared: "The strike must go on!" If it does, the victim will not only be Ulster's economy, but also the Sunningdale agreement, which six months ago promised an end to Northern Ireland's tragic and bizarre sectarian strife...
Even with Liberal backing, the Tories would still be eight short of a majority in Commons. That means Heath might try to dicker with the eleven Unionists from Northern Ireland.* But all of the Unionists are supporters of Protestant Extremist Ian Paisley, who has rejected the Tory-imposed peace settlement for the troubled province. By contrast, Labor might have better luck in garnering support from the nationalist M.P.s. Wilson himself avoided comment on Heath's decision, but another top Laborite spat out that Heath was "a very, very stubborn bastard, just like Nixon...
...organ is lit up like the stage at Radio City Music Hall. Overblown poppies bloom in Oriental splendor in the organist's iridescent paisley jacket. At the keyboard, he rocks vigorously in gigue time, his rhinestone-decorated black suede shoes dancing over the pedals. Cascading waves of sound shake Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Then, with a puff of smoke, the organist disappears. Overhead, a glowing portrait of a rotund face with crimped curls and dimpled chin flashes on a screen. The overflow audience explodes in cheers for Virgil Fox and Johann Sebastian Bach...