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Emphasizing the dour mood of Northern Ireland's Protestants, the leader of the militant Ulster Vanguard movement, William Craig, last week warned: "It would be prudent for loyalists not to ignore the possibility of civil war." Another cause of Protestant restlessness was a new I.R.A. policy of attacking targets in Protestant areas. Last week, for instance, from hiding places in Catholic areas, I.R.A. snipers killed a 15-year-old Protestant youth and wounded four factory workers. In the House of Commons, Whitelaw charged that the I.R.A. was deliberately trying to provoke the Protestants into counterattacks on Catholic areas, which...
Late in his career Powell made some effort to rejoin the vanguard of American black leadership, but he was rejected by the emerging Black Power movement. His playboy opulence scarcely fit the hard-eyed, denim-jacketed style of the younger militants. His once-envied achievement of making it in Whitey's world on Whitey's terms seemed increasingly frivolous to separatists eager to develop an independent set of black values. His demagogy remained effective only as long as the situation of blacks remained static. When vicarious achievement was no longer enough for blacks, Adam Clayton Powell became irrelevant...
...Suddenly deprived of office by Britain's decision, he first denounced any attempt by Westminster to run Ulster like a "coconut colony." Faulkner also showed up at a huge rally in Belfast of nearly 100,000 Protestants, which was summoned by William Craig, leader of the extremist Ulster Vanguard. Faulkner's presence lent a patina of respectability to Craig's demand for a massive civil-disobedience campaign. Then Faulkner reversed himself. "We must respect the law," he said in a statement issued on his last day as Prime Minister. "I must earnestly urge that there should...
Jackboot Unionism. Protesting what they regarded as a sellout, 6,000 Protestant shipyard workers walked off their jobs and marched on Belfast's city hall, carrying Union Jacks and the red cross flag of Ulster. William Craig, the right-wing former Home Minister who heads the militant Ulster Vanguard, warned that "Ulster is closer to civil war today than it was yesterday." He called for a massive, two-day strike this week by Protestant workers who man Ulster's public services, and vowed that the shutdown would be only the beginning. "We have the power to make government...
Volunteers, the Ulster Defense Association, the Shankill Defense Association, the Ulster Vanguard movement. The number of "vigilantes"-roving street sentries-is on the rise. So are reports of Protestant target practice in old quarries and on lonely hillsides outside Belfast. Of the 102,000 legally held firearms in Ulster, the overwhelming majority are in Protestant hands...