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...Paisley, 46, became a member of the British Parliament 22 months ago. Since then he has transformed his image from that of a sectarian rabble-rouser to what many of his colleagues in Commons consider the authentic voice of Ulster. His warnings last week to Protestant extremists- - "Anarchy cannot be answered by more anarchy" won him widespread applause...
...side, the killings immensely increased the influence of the I.R.A. terrorists, who now have more applicants than they can possibly train. Internment had confirmed the Catholics' worst fears about the Protestant-dominated Stormont government: that its ultimate answer to Catholic political and civil rights demands would be naked sectarian repression. No Unionist Prime Minister, they feel, can ever survive while ignoring the extremist Orangemen's call to "make the Croppies [Catholics] lie down." For Catholics, the Derry shootings have now added weight to the I.R.A.'s claim that the real enemy is the British government at Westminster...
Policy of Terror. Last week Faulkner took the calculated risk of ordering a one-year continuation of a ban on all public demonstrations. In Ulster, parades are both extremely popular and the cause of sectarian clashes. The decree infuriated Catholics-at week's end they staged two protest marches halted by troops using tear gas -as well as Protestants. "The government has capitulated to the policy of terror!" cried the Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of many militant Protestants. "The I.R.A. has won." There were some suggestions that the I.R.A., for its part, might try a new tactic by organizing...
...priority programs--because of their broadness--serve more as a statement of NAM's purpose than as an actual everyday organizing too. Disagreements over the programs were often vociferous but were never really expressed along sectarian lines, with the accompanying caucusing and chanting...
...table sat "the Gray Wolf," a provisional leader who had spent 24 years, half his life, in jail for terrorist activities. "All we want is a free united democratic Ireland and an end to sectarian discrimination," he said. "We have always been betrayed: betrayed by the church, betrayed by our own politicians and even by fellow comrades. But despite all our failures and past disappointments, I feel this is the turning point and soon we will be free...