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This restraint left matters to a few extremist clergymen led by Ian Paisley, a Member of Parliament from Northern Ireland, who declaimed, "The name of this man of sin, this son of perdition, this Antichrist, this false prophet, must be brought down." But his oratory and leadership inspired a mere 60 protesters to join him in waving signs and Bibles at the papal motorcade. For weeks Paisley had insisted that "anyone blessed by the Pope is cursed." When John Paul II spotted the knot of angry dissenters on a side street, he turned and, with a smile, coolly bestowed...
...everything from boosting crop growth to treating cancer. Many were started with just a few million dollars in venture-capital funds and a handful of researchers. They are now finding that promised commercial developments are hard to achieve, and are running short of money. Says Industry Analyst David Paisley, a Merrill Lynch vice president: "What you are seeing now is a shakeout that will lead to the survival of the fittest...
Some Unionists feared that Paisley's stridently anti-British stand might provoke a break with London. To preserve harmony in the Protestant cause-a doubtful prospect-Loyalist parties sent representatives to a hastily convened summit in Londonderry. But officials in both Belfast and London suspected that Paisley had other things than Protestant unity in mind. Said one Cabinet minister: "Ian Paisley sees himself as the first President of an independent Ulster...
...uproar over the Paisley parade, a crucial call for an end to sectarian violence went largely ignored. Tomás Cardinal O'Fiaich, Primate of All Ireland, declared flatly that Catholics who cooperate with the I.R.A. are committing a mortal sin. Church officials are now worried that fear of indiscriminate violence by Paisley vigilantes might cast the I.R.A. as a defender of the beleaguered Catholic community...
...I.R.A. hoped that Paisley's "day of action" would help to split the Protestants and lead to a British withdrawal frum Ulster. Meanwhile, the I.R.A. continued to bomb in Britain. A toy gun left on the sidewalk in front of military barracks in London exploded, injuring two women. Said Social Democratic and Labor Party Deputy Leader Seamus Mallon, expressing the growing fears in Ulster and elsewhere with such continuing violence: "Paisley and the Provos are simply feeding on each other...