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...fact, killings and bombings by the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army have been cut drastically this year. That did not stop the militant Protestant followers of the Rev. Ian R.K. Paisley, the working-class rabble-rouser who is as contemptuous of what he calls the "bluestocking brigade" (the middle-class Protestant Establishment) as he is of "old red socks" (the Pope). Last week Paisley and his "loyalists" in the United Unionist Action Council called a general strike, Northern Ireland's first in three years, to force the British to renew tough search-and-destroy operations against...
Gloomy Castle. Warning of "bloodshed" in the streets and of "dreadful repercussions" if he was arrested, Paisley-dressed in black clerical garb -led pickets outside the gates of Stormont, the seat of government in the province. Nearby, at the gloomy, old Stormont Castle, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Roy Mason, a tough ex-miner, calmly directed security operations. The 14,500 British troops in Northern Ireland were placed on alert, and 2,000 more were flown in, but order was maintained by the Ulster police force. The Secretary kept a low profile, although he did send...
...British government was convinced that Paisley and his paramilitary supporters were setting out to make a Rhodesia-style unilateral declaration of independence. Although Paisley and his allies denied that their goal was an independent Ulster, the strike was as much a threat to moderate Unionist leadership in the province as to Westminster. One former British Cabinet Minister who knows the province well said last week, "Paisley has always, in the back of his mind, thought of himself as the first president of a working-class Ulster Republic...
Corrigan and Williams, who plan to take their campaign throughout Northern Ireland, have also received death threats and obscene letters branding them "touts" (informers). "We will not be deterred by the hysterics of the peace-at-any-price brigade," huffed one IRA officer. The Protestant Telegraph, the Rev. Ian Paisley's fanatically Loyalist newspaper, also denounced the women's peace movement as "spurious" and "priest-inspired." After a gang of youngsters tried to set fire to her house, Williams sent her two children into hiding with friends...
...British Crown, the native Catholic minority has been relegated to permanently inferior status. Yet the conflict has a strong tribal aspect, with religion serving as the identifying element, even though groups such as the I.R.A. are now more likely to quote Marx than Jesus. Protestants like the demagogue Ian Paisley have kept the "religious threat" alive by constantly referring to the dangers of "popery" and "Romanism...