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...debate also brought a respectful hearing for the Rev. Ian Paisley, who advocates full integration of Northern Ireland with Britain. Said Ulster's best-known Protestant preacher: "If we are realists, we will admit that it is easier to change half a million people than it is to change a million people. And there are a million people in Northern Ireland who want to remain part and parcel of the United Kingdom...
Brian Faulkner is Northern Ireland's shrewdest politician. The Rev. Ian Paisley is its most charismatic figure. William Craig may prove to be its most dangerous man. Whether Britain can peacefully rule the province, reports TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast, depends largely on the responses of these three contenders for Ulster's Protestant leadership...
...Paisley, 46, became a member of the British Parliament 22 months ago. Since then he has transformed his image from that of a sectarian rabble-rouser to what many of his colleagues in Commons consider the authentic voice of Ulster. His warnings last week to Protestant extremists- - "Anarchy cannot be answered by more anarchy" won him widespread applause...
...James Molyneaux charged that the Prime Minister had "done a Munich." The Unionists' opposition raised the possibility that they might retaliate by withholding their support on Common Market legis lation, thereby cutting into the Prime Minister's dan gerously thin majority on that issue. The Rev. Ian Paisley, a fiery Protestant leader and M.P., called from the Tory benches for complete integration of Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom. Right-wing Tories immediately cabled Queen Elizabeth, who was attending inde pendence-day celebrations on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, to pro test the "betrayal...
...Ulster, parades are both extremely popular and the cause of sectarian clashes. The decree infuriated Catholics-at week's end they staged two protest marches halted by troops using tear gas -as well as Protestants. "The government has capitulated to the policy of terror!" cried the Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of many militant Protestants. "The I.R.A. has won." There were some suggestions that the I.R.A., for its part, might try a new tactic by organizing illegal parades of Catholics to test the ban and the government's will. The result might well mean more bloody clashes between...