Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The cause of the strike was militant Protestant opposition to the Sunningdale agreement, a compromise reached last December that led to the creation of the Provincial Executive, where Ulster's 1 million Protestants and 500,000 Roman Catholics began sharing political power. The militants, reflecting widespread Protestant apprehensions about...
Last week most of Ulster's Protestant workers stayed home, as a sign of their support or because they were intimidated by the bands of cudgel-swinging, paramilitary youths roaming the streets to enforce the strike. Most of Belfast's main roadways were blocked; only doctors and others...
New Roadblocks. Ulster's Provincial Executive, the Protestant-Catholic coalition government led by Protestant Brian Faulkner, so far has taken no action against the strikers. But Len Murray, leader of Britain's Trades Union Congress, attempted to intervene. He flew to Belfast to lead a "back-to-work...
Protestants Suspected. The terrorist Provisional wing of the outlawed Irish Republican Army denied responsibility for the atrocity. So did the extremist Protestant Ulster Defense Association, although a U.D.A. spokesman said, "I am very happy about the bombings." Most of the skimpy evidence suggested that the bombs had been planted by...
Few Jokes. Standing ramrod-straight in a business suit, Gothard lectures with few gestures, fewer jokes, no vocal theatrics and as props, only an easel for sketching and an overhead projector that flashes charts and lists of "Basic Steps" or "Root Problems" on a screen. Yet his hearers sit in...