Word: unionistic
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...week to stand in the cold wind and hearken to the words of a man making an unprecedented visit. "It's truly grand. I've never seen anything like this before," said Paul Thomas. "Everybody's come together." Indeed they had, by the tens of thousands, Protestant and Catholic, Unionist and Republican. They carried babies, waved flags and cheered with abandon when Bill Clinton, the first American President ever to visit Northern Ireland, flipped the switch that lit up a 49-ft. white pine Christmas tree, flown in from Nashville, Tennessee, the sister city of Belfast...
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 to see a return to the violence that has killed more than 3,000 people since the British army was sent into Northern Ireland in 1969 to stop sectarian clashes. The international community has offered enticing financial incentives. Major and Bruton are betting that even if the Unionist politicians walk out on the process, they will not find thousands of Protestants lined up behind them shouting, as they have in the past, ``Ulster says...
Declaring himself a staunch Unionist, Major insisted Northern Ireland could never merge with the republic ``in defiance of the will of the majority.'' For now, any referendum in the North would keep Ulster a part of Britain because Protestants make up about 60% of the population. But demographics are changing, and sometime within perhaps the next 30 years, Catholics could match or surpass Protestants number. The prospect may impel Unionists to consider the more flexible tactics the framework offers...
...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...