Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the poisonous atmosphere of Northern Ireland, life is particularly precarious for those in "mixed" Protestant-Catholic marriages. Many such families have been hounded by terrorists bent on enforcing strict segregation. Last week one "mixed" family lost its fifth member in the past 18 months.
John Hamilton, 46, was a Belfast Protestant working among fellow Protestants in the hard, exclusive domain of the shipyards. The father of one child, he lived a politically uneventful life with his wife Lily, who happens to be a Catholic. Two of their relatives were also stained by mixed marriages...
The systematic terror began in October 1972, when Hamilton's nephew, James Patrick McCartan, a Catholic, was dragged from a wedding party by members of a still legal Protestant vigilante force, the Ulster Defense Association. A pathologist's report and the confession of his killer indicate that McCartan...
Police scandals have erupted lately in many cities, including Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Indianapolis and Houston. What can a beleaguered mayor do about it? In Cleveland, where various police have stood accused of protecting pimps, accepting payoffs to influence court cases and operating burglary rings, Mayor Ralph J. Perk is...
Carbon Copies. Geisel, 65, will be the first Protestant ever to rule what is the world's largest Roman Catholic nation. One of the original plotters of the coup, he served four years as head of Petrobras, the state-owned oil monopoly. The new chief of state is almost...