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...noble but faint hope. Even though divided as to what to do next, most of Ulster's 1,000,000 Protestants clearly felt betrayed by the prorogation of the Parliament at Stormont, through which they had used their 2-to-1 popular majority to discriminate against the Catholic minority for more than half a century. One Unionist M.P. summed up the general feeling at Stormont's emotional last session by quoting from Kipling's 1912 poem Ulster: "Before an Empire's eyes/ The traitor claims his price./ What need of further lies?/ We are the sacrifice...
Wild Card. Craig's aim is to compel London to reinstate Stormont and redraft a constitution ensuring Protestant control. "We are going to endeavor by all nonviolent means to make the British initiative unworkable," he declared last week in an interview with TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark. "We can burst the government." As a first step, Craig plans a rent strike by Protestant tenants of government-owned homes, and mass Protestant refusal to pay property taxes and utility bills. He is also considering the creation of an Ulster "provisional government"-a sort of government-in-exile-in-residence...
...temporary truce. If the I.R.A. ceased bombing, it stood to lose momentum in its goal to drive the British out of Ireland entirely. If the I.R.A. continued, it could lose the support of Ulster's Catholics, whose immediate demands had been met by the end of the Stormont government, and by a British promise to begin releasing terrorist suspects who had been interned since last summer. "Very nearly 100% of the people in my area favor a stop to the bombing now," said John Hume, M.P. for Londonderry and a leading Catholic moderate...
...Richard Nixon of Northern Ireland politics: he has both Nixon's reputation for trickiness and Nixon's ability to recover from defeat. Faulkner was twice beaten for the premiership before he finally won it just a year ago; even now, amid the wreckage of the Stormont government, his standing with the Protestant rank and file is high. He is a pure Ulsterman, a Presbyterian, the son of a shirt-factory owner, and he went to college not in England but in County Dublin. "I'm an Irishman," he once proudly said. "With British links...
Protestants, Heath carefully pointed out that Stormont was not being abolished, merely prorogued, a step that preserved intact a constitutional guarantee that Ulster's status would not be changed without the approval of the local Parliament. But that right of approval will be Stormont's only power...