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NORTHERN IRELAND Violence Returns to Belfast Sectarian unrest is a regular summertime feature of life in Ulster, but the strife reached a disturbing new level last week when Protestant protesters blocked a group of Catholic children from going to their school in a divided area of north Belfast. The trouble quickly escalated into successive nights of rioting. Families on both sides were attacked in their homes, and more than 60 police officers were hurt trying to keep the factions apart. Police said the violence was largely orchestrated by Protestant paramilitaries who have turned against the Good Friday agreement...
...This time, it looks like he intends to resign as leader of the Ulster Unionists too. He was essentially reelected because everyone knew he had this letter of resignation pending and they should just let it play out. But he's unlikely to resign his seat in the British parliament or his Northern Ireland assembly seat...
TIME.com: Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble plans to resign by July 1 if the IRA doesn't start decommissioning its weapons. Is there even the slightest possibility that decommissioning may begin by that date...
...David Trimble, first minister of Northern Ireland, is another co-winner (1998) who must be wondering whether his accolade is really a curse. Bravely he has struggled to keep some forward momentum in the Ulster peace process, as much against hard-liners in his own Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) as against the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and its political front Sinn Fein. But the process is stuck in neutral, perhaps drifting backward. Last week, British prime minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern convened talks with Ulster politicians at Hillsborough Castle near Belfast. All the pomp and glitter...
Johnson, who received his bachelor's degree in biology from Stanford, hopes to receive his Masters in biotechnology during his year in Ulster...