Word: paisleys
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...candidates are representing a total of 17 party labels. Four groups, however, merit special watching. On the Protestant side, there are the long-dominant Unionists, led by Faulkner, and the more militant Loyalists, whose leaders include such hard-liners as William ("King Billy") Craig and the Rev. Ian Paisley. On the Catholic side, there is the Social, Democratic and Labor Party. (The outlawed Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army is not, of course, taking part in the elections; it has urged all Catholics to boycott them.) Somewhat in the middle, trying to establish a nonsectarian force for compromise...
...week, King Billy Craig declared: "For four years now, we have had defeat after defeat, humiliation after humiliation. The only thing that is really left to lose is Ulster itself." Faulkner, in turn, has attacked the Loyalist leaders for consorting with the extremist paramilitary Ulster Defense Association. Craig and Paisley, he says, have "bloodstains on their joint program...
...quality of The Sorrow and the Pity, it has a desperate urgency all its own. Ophuls spent a month and a half earlier this year shooting all around Ireland, his subjects ranging from Bernadette Devlin and Prime Minister Jack Lynch to the arch-conservative Protestant preacher, the Rev. Ian Paisley. Ophuls has structured the film not on these interviews, however, but around the impact of meaningless deaths. Parents mourn the incineration of their adopted son Colin, 17 months old; a widow tells how her husband, a prosperous Belfast businessman, tried to defuse a bomb that blew him apart. Ophuls ends...
Unfortunately, Ulster's Protestant militants seemed to be listening to a different drummer as they drilled openly in the streets of Belfast. The Rev. Ian Paisley called on British troops to "leave their defensive role and go into action against the murderers and rebels." He meant that the British should take charge of Londonderry's Catholic "nogo" areas, where the I.R.A. maintains barricades and checkpoints...
...made a career out of anti-Catholicism, but his former wise cracks at the expense of "Old Red Socks," as he used to call the Pope, have been toned down. On the first day of internment, he denounced the new policy and declared it would not work. Last week Paisley took a characteristically independent stand by advocating "total integration into Great Britain...