Word: paisleys
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...peace agreement today after having failed to stop it in May's referendum. Dissident Republicans signaled their intentions yesterday by detonating a car bomb near a police station in Newtownhamilton, but anti-agreement Unionists are relying on the ballot rather than the bullet. Protestant hardliners led by Reverend Ian Paisley hope they can win enough seats in today's election for the new Northern Ireland Assembly to gum up the works. "They say they're out to defend the Union," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "But that's just a coded way of saying they're going...
Polls indicate that more than 70% of voters support the Northern Ireland peace agreement, which must be approved in a May 22 referendum. The campaign, however, has just begun, and will clearly be nasty in the North. PETER ROBINSON, deputy leader of IAN PAISLEY'S Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, called the agreement "the mother of all treachery." He also told TIME that should PRESIDENT CLINTON visit the province to encourage support for the agreement, as has been proposed, "we will not give him a free hand to go around and do whatever he wants. He will be subject...
...talking to the enemy. "I am a British citizen and will remain one," says Billy Hutchinson, leader and chief negotiator of the Progressive Unionists. "But I have the guts to face Sinn Fein." For his pains he has been called a traitor to unionism by the likes of Ian Paisley, the blunderbuss leader who has made a career of fanning hatred in the North of Ireland and who refused to participate in the talks. Paisley's recalcitrance left him with no role other than leading a pathetic midnight protest outside the gates of the final negotiations and, with luck...
Polls indicate that more than 70 percent of voters support the Northern Ireland peace agreement, which must be approved in a May 22 referendum. The campaign, however, has just begun, and will clearly be nasty in the North. Peter Robinson, deputy leader of Ian Paisley's Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, called the agreement "the mother of all treachery." He also told TIME that should President Clinton visit the province to encourage support for the agreement, as has been proposed, "we will not give him a free hand to go around and do whatever he wants. He will be subject...
...That?s a blow for people like Rev. Ian Paisley, the Protestant rabble-rouser who launched a bitter ?No? campaign against the accord just one day ago. It?s a boost for John Hume and David Trimble, leaders of the more mainstream nationalist and unionist parties, who always said their members were behind the basic principles of this peace. ?It is the best deal available -- warts and all,? Trimble told the BBC Wednesday. And who?s afraid of a few warts like the North-South committee and the decommissioning of weapons? Not the Irish...