Word: pro-british
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...move is a worrying sign that despite Paisley's credentials as the longtime firebrand militant leader of the most uncompromising wing of the pro-British loyalist community, his path of compromise has failed to convince large sections of the Protestant community. Mindful of concerns among his base, Paisley's party has suggested that public contact between him and McGuiness might be scaled back. But the settlement that brought them together remains sound. Paisley has been in politics almost as long as he's been in the pulpit: he ensured that his rivals for the unionist vote were beaten...
Andre Morize, professor of French Literature, prophesized that Hitler might use Pierre Laval, the French Quisling, as a front for a peace offensive. He also stated that the French people hate Laval and that their sentiments are pro-British and pro-American...
Somewhere in Ireland last week, the Irish Republican Army got rid of a cache of weapons as international inspectors looked on. The move was meant to impress pro-British unionists in Northern Ireland and revive their appetite for sharing power with Irish nationalists, as the province heads toward November elections. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, flew into Belfast for the occasion. But this careful choreography was replaced with chaos after the I.R.A., apparently to avoid the appearance of surrender, allowed the inspectors to release only the barest facts about the disposal and nothing...
...irony: in his grave, Pat Finucane is doing far greater damage to the British government in Northern Ireland than his brothers who took up arms against it. Last week the U.K.'s largest police investigation reported that the military and police in Northern Ireland had systematically colluded with the pro-British loyalists who murdered Finucane and many other nationalists. Criminal cases are being considered against a British brigadier, other army officers and serving members of the police. Dogged work by English detectives exposed an astonishing web of intrigue. One of the guns used to kill the lawyer was stolen from...
...controls. I.R.A. members are also thought to have a hand in the sectarian clashes that have recently gripped Belfast. A year ago, three suspected I.R.A. activists were arrested in Colombia after reportedly sharing their talents for urban terrorism with left-wing guerrillas there. All this makes Ulster's pro-British unionists fear that republicans could return to full-scale violence if they thought it would profit their cause. Growing unionist disquiet about the I.R.A.'s true aims has led British Prime Minister Tony Blair to prepare a warning for the I.R.A. and other armed groups this week. O'Neill...