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Reliving the past, often its worst chapters, seems to be a specialty of Northern Ireland. Six years ago this month, a company of British soldiers was rushed into Londonderry to put down bloody riots that raged out of control after Protestant Ulstermen had staged their traditional Apprentice Boys of Deny Parade; the occasion commemorates a group of young apprentices who, on Aug. 12, 1689, closed the city gates and prevented Londonderry's fall to the troops of the exiled Catholic King James II. During the 1969 march, taunts were traded with Catholics from the Bogside area that adjoins...
Elusive Normalcy. Returning to London to deliver his first major speech in the Commons, Rees announced a deceptively moderate program that did indeed emphasize a political solution. He outlined the government's determination to continue transferring responsibility for the security of the province to the Ulstermen themselves. In a dramatic gesture aimed at restoring an elusive normalcy, he announced the legalization of both the Provisional Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, and the only proscribed Protestant group, the Ulster Volunteer Force. Rees also said that there would still be a "phased program" of release for 584 detainees...
...only thing they haven't done yet is eat the dead." So said a Belfast policeman last week, shortly before Ulstermen went to the polls in Northern Ireland to choose members of a provincial Assembly for the first time in four years. The voters were vividly reminded that sectarian enmity forces them to live in an armed camp. In expectation of an outbreak of terrorism, all leaves for policemen were canceled...
...Ulstermen in record numbers flocked to the polls last Wednesday for Northern Ireland's first provincial election in four years. Their impressive turnout-about 70% of the eligible voters-cheered moderates in the strife-torn province. That so many people participated in the balloting for local district councilmen suggested that Ulster might be taking a first step toward rational discourse rather than sectarian violence...
...Ulstermen have never taken naturally to the political center, if only because they like a little fire and brimstone from their politicians. Moderates, like Ulster's former (1963-69) Unionist Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, too frequently seemed like moral Milquetoasts, beset by a fatal whiff of goodness. Now one encouraging sign is that both the Alliance and Labour parties have almost equal backing from Catholics and Protestants. Recent Alliance recruits include a number of Ulster's senior political figures, among them Sir Robert Porter, former Minister of Home Affairs, three mayors, five Senators and 70 local...