Word: paisleys
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...turn British policy toward finding ways to end the haunting question of Britain's first colony. Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson has suggested a 15-point, 15-year program for unification that has been welcomed in principle by Prime Minister Heath's government. Even in Ulster, the Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of the Protestant militants, has declared that traditional Unionism is finished, and formed his own breakaway group, the Democratic Unionist Party, without ties to the Orange Order. Ulster Prime Minister Faulkner has intimated that Paisley has been talking with Provisional leaders, and that the army is now beginning...
...follower of the Rev. Ian Paisley; I am one of the hundreds of clergy in this province striving for objectivity in a situation that is as explosive as it is strewn with adjectives to describe...
...largest hard-hat demonstration to date, over 20,000 Protestant workers assembled in a Belfast park to hear calls for "lead bullets, not rubber ones"-a reference to the rubber bullets the British soldiers use in trying to restore order. The crowd cheered wildly as the Rev. Ian Paisley, the province's Protestant firebrand, flailed the air and announced formation among Protestant loyalists of a civil defense corps...
...Paisley, the bombings were proof that Prime Minister Brian Faulkner's government had failed to provide stability and protection for Northern Ireland's "loyal"-that is, Protestant-majority. "As Ulster burns," charged Paisley, "Faulkner fiddles...
...each inning of violence seems worse than the one before, and another eruption would only strengthen the hand of the Protestant hard-liners like Paisley and Craig, who would be tempted to deal with the Catholics as Oliver Cromwell did. Since those with sufficient influence to succeed him are too far to the right to be acceptable to London or to the Catholics, Faulkner would be Ulster's last Prime Minister-and his successor would be a British proconsul appointed by London and backed by the British army...