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Protestants endorsed the tough new measures. "It shows that the government now really intends to do something about terrorism in the province," said William Craig, head of the Protestant Vanguard Party. Catholics, on the other hand, were wary; for years the I.R.A. has charged (and the British army has denied) that SAS units have regularly operated covert assassination squads in the province. A leading Catholic politician, Austin Currie, warned that some people will see the presence of the SAS as an anti-Catholic move unless soldiers are also sent in against Protestant terrorists. One clear danger was that the action...
...previous proposals for sharing power with the Catholic minority. They will probably refuse to accept even an emergency coalition out of fear that Britain would try to convert it into a permanent power-sharing settlement. If Westminster does not accept the Protestants' rejection of power-sharing, warned Vanguard Party official Ernest Baird, it must face the "inevitable consequences of a final conflict...
...each country's exports, compared with 5% for most developing countries. Saudi Arabia turned to Taiwanese contractors for its rural electrification and road-building programs, and South Koreans are helping Iran untangle a nearly paralyzing transportation bottleneck. Taiwan even has its own foreign aid program called "Operation Vanguard," which sponsors agricultural, industrial and medical projects in 21 other developing nations...
Before the first glinting rays of Sunday hit the steel mills surrounding Hammond, Ind., the vanguard of 1,000 bus volunteers check in. Soon 230 blue-and-white First Baptist Church buses are plying routes across northern Indiana and South Side Chicago, and before the morning is over the drivers will have hauled as many as 10,000 persons to what foot-high signs on the sides of the buses hail as the WORLD'S LARGEST SUNDAY SCHOOL...
...West Africa. Others boarded fishing trawlers sailing down the southeastern Atlantic's treacherous Skeleton Coast to Walvis Bay. Still others joined a convoy of trucks that crossed the Cunene River and headed along the scorched Namib coastline, known locally as the Coast of Loneliness. The refugees were the vanguard of an estimated 350,000 people who are trying desperately to escape from Angola. As the vicious civil war among the Portuguese territory's three black independence parties has steadily worsened, the exodus of both blacks and whites has become a rout...