Word: sectarian
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...only thing they haven't done yet is eat the dead." So said a Belfast policeman last week, shortly before Ulstermen went to the polls in Northern Ireland to choose members of a provincial Assembly for the first time in four years. The voters were vividly reminded that sectarian enmity forces them to live in an armed camp. In expectation of an outbreak of terrorism, all leaves for policemen were canceled...
...mind, the face of politics will never be the same after this election. Everybody is tired and wants peace. I think we're heading for better times. I feel it in my bones." These are signs, however tentative and fragile, of a yearning to end the bloody sectarian strife...
...first provincial election in four years. Their impressive turnout-about 70% of the eligible voters-cheered moderates in the strife-torn province. That so many people participated in the balloting for local district councilmen suggested that Ulster might be taking a first step toward rational discourse rather than sectarian violence...
...Protestant-dominated Unionist Party, led by former Prime Minister Brian Faulkner, swept the Protestant vote. Most Catholics supported the Social, Democratic and Labor Party (S.D.L.P.). Most disappointing, the moderate and non-sectarian Alliance Party finished a poor fourth, trailing even candidates of the Protestant extremists. Noted the Belfast Telegraph: "The people have spoken and their terms are uncompromising...
...South of the border, the overwhelmingly Catholic populace of the Republic of Ireland demonstrated, in a remarkably peaceful election, that politics need not be sectarian. For only the second time in the Republic's history, Irish voters elected a Protestant to the largely ceremonial office of President. He is London-born Erskine Childers, 67, a former Cabinet member, son of Robert Erskine Childers, an Englishman who involved himself in the Irish struggle for independence and paid for it with a martyr's death. Erskine Childers, who is a member of the conservative Fianna Fail, which lost control...