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...power, the Heath government was confronted with its first real crisis. London had already decided to bolster the 8,000-man garrison in Northern Ireland with 3,000 more British troops. Its decision followed a threat by Ulster's Protestant militants, led by the Rev. Ian Paisley, to hold a series of Orange Order parades of the kind that provoked last year's violence between Protestants and the Roman Catholic minority. The extra soldiers were needed sooner than anyone had expected...
...plot, both men -former Agriculture Minister Neil Blaney and ex-Finance Minister Charles Haughey-flatly denied any involvement. In any event, disclosure of the gunrunning story heightened Protestant fears of a Catholic plot to take over Ulster and strengthened the hand of such right-wingers as the Rev. Ian Paisley. To appalled moderates on both sides of the Irish border, this seemed to promise renewed religious strife in the North this summer...
...enemies have called him "the bloated bullfrog" and "the clergyman in jackboots." But the Rev. I.R.K. (for Ian Richard Kyle) Paisley, leader of Northern Ireland's extremist Protestants, demonstrated last week that his militant anti-Catholicism has strong appeal to his country's rank-and-file Protestant voters. He handily won a seat in Ulster's 52-member Parliament at Stormont, while one of his close colleagues, the Rev. William Beattie, 27, scored an upset in a second by-election...
Given a fair test, the reforms might have reduced tension. Instead, they alarmed many Protestants. In an atmosphere of growing anger, Paisley warned voters: "You cannot talk peace until the enemy surrenders, and the enemy is the Catholic Church." The predominantly Protestant constituency of Bannside, northwest of Belfast, gave him a decisive victory over two opponents...
What worries Ulster's moderates is that Paisley's election might lead eventually to the fall of Chichester-Clark's government in favor of a hard-line Protestant group. Certainly, that is one of Paisley's goals. "I'll make it so hot for the Prime Minister," he boasted last week, "he'll want to retire...