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While Ulster seethed, two governments fell in quick succession under persistent attack from such Protestant extremists as the Rev. Ian Paisley and former Home Minister William Craig. Brian Faulkner, Northern Ireland's third Premier in 23 months, took office last March in a period of rising unrest. As a gesture of conciliation, Faulkner advocated the establishment of three new parliamentary committees, two of which would be chaired by opposition members. But Protestant and Catholic alike were lukewarm to the plan. As friction increased early this summer, Catholic opposition leaders boycotted the Ulster Parliament and threatened to set up their...
...team, when you get out there on the field today, look straight through the purple shades and into the eyes of that Yale fullback in the paisley helmet. Think of him and Erich Segal and good of Charley Reich tossing flowers at each other in the Pierson College dining hall as Kingman Brewster broadcasts the Fugs out of his office window. Think of jean-and-work shirt-bedecked Yalies pouring out of Skull and Bones to spend their GM dividend checks on grass and anti-war ads in the New York Times. And win this one for Consciousness...
...sooner was the Rev. Ian Paisley elected to Northern Ireland's Parliament as the spokesman of Ulster's right-wing Protestants than he turned his victory speech last spring into an attack on the head of the Protestant government. Said Paisley of moderate Unionist Prime Minister James D. Chichester-Clark: "I'll make it so hot for him that he'll want to retire." Last week Paisley achieved that goal when hard-liners threw Chichester-Clark...
Under the guise of law-and-order, Paisley and the Protestant extremists demanded tighter controls on Ulster's Catholic minority. They wanted the weapons returned that Chichester-Clark's government had taken away from the dreaded "B Special" auxiliary police when British troops moved in. They also demanded that an internment order be invoked that would provide detention for suspected Irish Republican Army leaders. From the other side, the I.R.A., the guerrilla force of the extremist Catholic fringe, created even more trouble for the Prime Minister than Paisley. Chichester-Clark was also let down by the British...
...Paisley, Ulster's fiercest Protestant militant, demanded the Stormont government's resignation. Thundered Paisley: "We can no longer tolerate your weakness. You must go before the whole land is deluged with the blood of innocent men and women." The government also faced increasing pressures to invoke the Special Powers Act of 1922 and incarcerate I.R.A. ringleaders. In Britain, Home Secretary Reginald Maudling described the killing as a "coldblooded and an appalling crime." Though the British announced that they were withdrawing all soldiers under 18 years of age, Maudling told the House of Commons that the government is prepared...