Word: unionist
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Similar opportunities have been spurned time and again by the absolutists on both sides in Northern Ireland. The day of the announcement, Ulster Unionist Party member David Trimble stomped off the set of a television interview when the reporter said Sinn Fein official Martin McGuinness was going to join the discussion from Belfast. The Protestant Unionists have been condemning the framework document ever since bits were leaked to Britain's Times newspaper five weeks ago, and last week they denounced it as a sellout. Even if Protestant leaders do not support the proposals, early poll results show that many citizens...
...want concessions to the anti-British Catholic minority in Northern Ireland, made it clear that negotiations will not be easy. TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says the overall Protestant population in Northern Ireland is not as hostile to the plan. "There is a sense that the Unionist politicians are more opposed to this thing than the people," says Hillenbrand...
...want concessions to the anti-British Catholic minority in Northern Ireland, made it clear that negotiations will not be easy. TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says the overall Protestant population in Northern Ireland is not as hostile to the plan. "There is a sense that the Unionist politicians are more opposed to this thing than the people," says Hillenbrand...
DIED. FRED PERRY, 85, tennis ace and the last British men's singles champ at Wimbledon; in Melbourne, Australia. The son of a trade unionist, Perry was viewed as something of an upstart in the alitist tennis world before he collected three consecutive Wimbledon crowns (1934, '36) and three U.S. Open titles (1933, '34, '36). The first court star to win all four Grand Slam events (though never in one year), Perry retired in the late 1940s. He co-founded a profitable sportswear company that sold the kind of natty tennis garb he favored...
...base pay runs as low as $1.75 a day in Indonesia), nor on the degree to which U.S. firms should challenge their host governments or support their workers in seeking political freedoms and the right to form unions. "Wages are only a small part of it," says a trade unionist in Jakarta. "What's important is that the workers have their dignity, and they'll only have that if they have the right to organize." The challenge is toughest in China, where the only legal organizer is the Communist Party, and workers can land in jail simply for complaining...