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...Paisley, Ulster's fiercest Protestant militant, demanded the Stormont government's resignation. Thundered Paisley: "We can no longer tolerate your weakness. You must go before the whole land is deluged with the blood of innocent men and women." The government also faced increasing pressures to invoke the Special Powers Act of 1922 and incarcerate I.R.A. ringleaders. In Britain, Home Secretary Reginald Maudling described the killing as a "coldblooded and an appalling crime." Though the British announced that they were withdrawing all soldiers under 18 years of age, Maudling told the House of Commons that the government is prepared...
...I.R.K. (for Ian Richard Kyle) Paisley, leader of Northern Ireland's extremist Protestants, demonstrated last week that his militant anti-Catholicism has strong appeal to his country's rank-and-file Protestant voters. He handily won a seat in Ulster's 52-member Parliament at Stormont, while one of his close colleagues, the Rev. William Beattie, 27, scored an upset in a second by-election...
...perhaps, to reinforce the power and legitimacy of the Northern Ireland government, the British began to construct an elaborate Parliament Building for the Northern Irish parliament. This parliament building looks something like the Cambridge Post Office and sits in a triumphal landscaped formal estate at the Belfast suburb of Stormont. Adjacent to the parliament building is a castle with a tin roof which became the official residence of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland...
...Stormont Castle, which looks like the workshop of your average prosperous Mass Ave, undertaker, has had only four residents. All four-Craigavon, Brookeborough, O'Neill, and Chichester-Clark-have been members of the Unionist Party. The Unionists have ruled Ulster since 1922. The Unionists have been unable to prevent all non-Unionists from voting in elections, but they have managed to do the next best thing to make the opposition impotent...
...Prime Minister is almost a parody of the ruling gentry class in Northern Ireland. His seat in the Stormont Parliament is virtually hereditary, having been held in succession by his grandmother and father. Educated at Eton, Chichester-Clark served in the Irish Guards and still carries in his left leg shrapnel fragments from the Anzio landing. He owns a 560-acre estate near Londonderry and enjoys gentlemanly pastimes like riding to hounds...