Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Altogether, it was a bad week for the Provos. Moderate Catholics stiffened their resistance to the I.R.A. after the killing of three British soldiers lured to a party by girl decoys. Police received more than 2,500 anonymous calls from would-be informers. It was too early, of course, to...
Stormont, the Protestant-dominated Ulster Parliament that was suspended a year ago, will never again open. It will be replaced by an 80-seat Northern Ireland Assembly, elected under a system of proportional representation that will ensure the Catholics a fair share of the seats. Instead of a Cabinet consisting...
Some Protestant groups vowed to fight the proposals, although like most moderate Catholics they seemed prepared to enter the Assembly elections. But the anarchist Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army denounced the White Paper, saying that it left "no choice but to fight on."
The Church Project, a committee of Protestant denominations which organized the proxy campaign against Con Oil and Phillips, claims that the financial and moral support provided by such companies helps maintain South African rule in Namibia, formerly called Southwest Africa.
Barbie was half-forgotten until 1971, when a Munich court handling litigation by some of Barbie's victims finally decided that it could take no action in the case. That aroused the ire of Beate Klarsfeld, then 32, a Berlin-born Protestant who had married a French Jew. "I...