Word: unionist
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...outbreak of violence between these two extremes of the sectarian struggle comes at an importune--and nervous--time. The Protestant unionist parties participating in the talks were already discontent with the way British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Marjorie Mowlam was handling the negotiations. Says M.P. Ken Maginnis, a senior member of the Ulster Unionist Party: "She has been giving concession after concession to Sinn Fein and the I.R.A., while frustrating our interests time and time again. This can only lead to tears." Maginnis demanded Mowlam's resignation, and some unionists in his party are threatening to pull...
Belfast Braces for a Bloody New Year Killings by both Republican and Unionist splinter groups have left Northern Ireland bracing for further bloodshed. The peace process can survive extremist attacks, but can it survive the politics of its participants...
BELFAST: The last place you want to see in the New Year is in a Catholic pub in Belfast, says TIME correspondent Barry Hillenbrand. The assassination in prison last weekend of Unionist militant Billy Wright, followed by the retaliatory strike on a Catholic disco, has left the city braced for a new wave of bloodletting...
...says Hillenbrand, although a bout of violent retaliation by both sides may lie ahead, ?the fighting by extremists at the fringes is not a hindrance to the peace process.? The recent attacks were carried out by anti-peace breakaway factions of the Republican and Unionist movements. ?The real question is whether the center can hold. The mainstream Republicans and Unionists have said they won?t be drawn into new violence. But the big question, since even before the recent killings, is whether the mainstream Unionists plan to stay at the talks...
...described three key figures in the Irish struggle stranded together in the middle of a body of water. The two Unionist leaders, Jan Paisley and David Trimble, swam to shore. But "Gerry Adams walked on water...