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...those stirring words uttered last week by the Rev. Ian Paisley, 54, the durable firebrand of Ulster politics, had a strangely familiar ring, it was not accidental. Precisely the same call to arms had been issued 69 years earlier by Ulster Hero Sir Edward Carson, when he rallied fellow Protestants fighting to keep their ties to the United Kingdom rather than accept Irish home rule and Catholic domination. Paisley, too, was seeking to stir support among Ulster's 1 million Protestants against any conceivable sellout to the Catholics, and he had an additional motive. With local elections scheduled...
...always, his political showmanship was adroit. To muster support, Paisley sat down ostentatiously in Belfast's City Hall last week, behind a table covered with the Union Jack, to sign his name to "Ulster's Declaration," which he had composed. It pledged allegiance to Queen Elizabeth on the part of Northern Ireland Protestants - and promised a fight against "the conspiracy hatched at the Thatcher-Haughey Dublin summit." The "conspiracy" to which he referred was last December's Dublin summit between British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Prime Minister Charles J. Haughey...
Inside their turreted, Norman-style abbey in Ulster's County Armagh one evening last week, Sir Norman Stronge, 86, and his son James, 48, had just retired to the library after dinner. The baronet, once speaker of the Northern Ireland Parliament and a former head of the Black Order (a staunch Protestant group), was relaxing in his ancestral home when suddenly the great wooden doors of the 18th century castle were blasted open by a violent explosion. Through the breach burst eight gunmen. The masked and heavily armed terrorists shot the victims through their heads, set off incendiary bombs...
...years of age," said Catholic Politician Austin Currie, "Sir Norman was still incomparably more of a man than the cowardly dregs of humanity who ended his life in this barbaric way." Still, the violence seemed to signal a new round of tit-for-tat murders. Last week the Ulster Defense Association, a Protestant paramilitary organization, warned Protestants to fight "this conspiracy to destroy our homeland...
...legacy of bloodshed and bitterness," he wrote, "and many people here in England are conscious of our responsibility not only in but for this tragic situation." At week's end Catholic Political Leader John Hume reported that "a door has been opened" in his talks with Ulster Secretary of State Humphrey Atkins. Most observers devoutly hoped so. If some room for compromise was not found, Northern Ireland, and perhaps England as well, seemed set for a Christmas season during which the message of peace and goodwill would be increasingly hard to hear...