Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the strength of the I.R.A. has declined, the Protestant organizations have grown larger and bolder. Since December, the "sectarian" killings that had long seemed to be an expression of random aggression have taken on a more perceptible pattern. Often in the past two months they have involved groups of two or three automobiles making hit-and-run attacks in areas that had been considered safe. A few days before the Protestant strike, for instance, a car stopped casually near a spot where a group of Catholics were engaged in a Sunday afternoon hurling match, the Gaelic version of hockey...
...renewed sequence of assassinations came as a shock to Ulstermen; since Christmas, the atmosphere in Belfast had been almost benign. British patrols had seemingly pacified the East Belfast area that had been the scene of many "sectarian" killings-the term routinely used in Ulster to describe cases where victims are murdered simply because they are Catholic or Protestant. Apparently exasperated by a delay in the publication of an anticipated British White Paper setting forth a new political structure for Northern Ireland, terrorists shifted their attack. Most of last week's shootings took place in West Belfast, where Catholic Andersonstown...
...Brien feels, may ultimately create further polarization and result in two fascist, sectarian and actively hostile states. O'Brien's fear may not be as ill-justified as some observers might think...
...highest unemployment and insisted that Northern Catholics get a fair share of the jobs, the atmosphere might improve dramatically. Reconciliation, at any rate, is probably Ire land's best hope of obtaining equality for the oppressed Catholics of the North - and perhaps of averting a full-scale sectarian civil...
...will last is anybody's guess. Although the Philippine army seems to have contained the relatively small cadre of Maoist insurgents on Luzon, there was a bloody clash two weeks ago between Marcos' troops and units of the fledgling New People's Army at Marawi in Mindanao, where MoslemChristian sectarian strife could provide a tinderbox for future flare-ups. Marcos has also made some powerful enemies in the past two months, including more than 4,500 civil servants who were fired from their jobs on charges of corruption and disloyalty, and wealthy oligarchs who were financially hurt by the President...