Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december 1981 7 what Ian by William Tuohy los Angeles times Belfast every sunday the redbrick martyrs memorial free Church in East Bel a British Flag flying out Side fills to three thousand parishioners have come to hear Ian Paisley preach fire and they Are never a Paisley Sermon is something mixing go fearing protestant ism with Sharp political for 55yearold member of the British parliament for North Antrim is the fiery political Leader of the protestant militants in Northern in this troubled British in the protestant majority turn men like Paisley when they see a threat to their Way of the protes who outnumber roman catholics two Toone Range from mod debates to from the apolitical the men with but they have one thing in common they do not want to become part of the Catholic Republic of Ireland to the and some among them would even break the ties with Britain to escape that Paisley appeals to the hardest of the hard dressed in a Black frock coat and a White clerical the Beefy Paisley leads the congregation in a then launches into his Sermon god will take care of the Irish Republican army and Rise up in judg ment against the murder he then shifts into politics of Deal with Margaret Thatcher and Jim the British prime minister ant her minister for Northern in Paisley has ordered betrayal of then the reverend booms out have an unholy Trio tha Cherite the Dublin and the they All Nave the same goal to bring us into an Al Ireland that will never Over our dead 1 for the protestants of As Northern Ireland is called it has not been a Good they have seen Ira hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to the British parliament As he Lay dying in a British prison outside this provincial they have seen one of their own members of Robert assassinated by Ira gun More ominous to the protestant militants have been the talks Between Thatcher and Irish prime minister Garret which seem to have taken the problems of Ulster out of a purely British while Ian Paisley does not speak for All the he by dint of Energy and become the most powerful spokesman for his democratic unionist which broke away from the official unionist party in has increased its share of the vote in every election since now equalling the Parent party in popularity it was Paisley Call for a Day of action that sent thousands of unionists into the streets of Ulster a few Days an event that appeared to strengthen his claim to speak for the protestant the terms unionist and loyalist Are often used interchangeably and traditionally refer to protestants who support continued ties to but some protestants now talk of breaking away from perfidious in setting up an Independent protestant state in not since the English colonized Northern Ireland in the 17th Century about the same time they settled in America have the protestants been so uneasy about their relations with the Mother in the British government divided the Island of Ireland into the Irish free state later to become the Independent Republic of Ireland and the six counties of As Northern joined great Britain to make up the United a Northern Ireland parliament was set up at just East of with a prime minister and and for 50 years it ran Ulster As the protes Tants saw and during All those decades the Catholic population now numbering about half a million to the protestants million claimed it was discriminated not Only in a gerrymandered but in jobs and but their complaints Little when prime minister Terrance a tried to implement reforms on behalf of the catholics in the he was turned out of in the Catholic civil rights movement became More leading to incidents that brought on the current troubles which at times have amounted to guerrilla warfare in the class based Appeal Paisley new democratic unionist party developed Strong Bonds with the protestant working class and with Small clearly breaking with the official unionist party which was still perceived As the party of the upper while some upper class Ulster men As Well As those in Britain viewed the hulking Paisley As a he was actually a shrewd and skilled Politi a Brilliant Paisley also did his Homework in be came a master publicist for his and looked after his constituents including some in the British tried to construct a Power sharing arrangement be tween protestants and catholics in Northern Ireland partly due to Paisley stiff broke and the province returned to direct Rule by the parliament in the deep seated protestant com plaint about a Power sharing formula with catholics was the minority de sire to seek Unity with the Irish re pub the protestants viewed them Sim ply As traitors dedicated to dismantling the government of the official unionist party is led by James a Hartline protestant and member of parliament who has in recent months been forced to even More extreme positions by Paisley the Deputy Leader is Harold a member of parliament for county and a dedicated unionist considered responsible by other two other members of the party also serve in the British parliament William for Lon and Enoch for South Down a Brilliant parliamentarian known for his Strong racial Paisley and his followers consider Powell a Carpetbagger because he is an englishman who switched to a North Ern Ireland constituency several years the policy of the official unionists is to remain a part of the United kingdom without any Home Rule government in Northern Paisley democratic unionists also want to remain in the United but have called for a provincial govern ment that would give the protestants a commanding As they had before London resumed direct Rule the democratic unionists Are unwilling to share Power with any of the Catholic and Paisley has increasingly talked about the possibility of Ulster going it besides the democratic unionists have two other representatives in the London Deputy Leader Peter Robinson of East and John Mcquade of North both As extremist in their views As two other protestant the United popular unionist party and the United Ulster unionist follow the Paisley line and Are represented by their leaders in the unionist parties have no official ties with the protestant paramilitary organizations though they May have unofficial welfare cover Story the leading paramilitary group is the Ulster defence which ostensibly concerns itself with welfare its strength is variously estimated As Between and Ulster defence association leaders Andy Tyrie and John Mcmichael deny that their which is has any relation to outlawed protestant paramilitary groups the Ulster Volun Teer the Ulster Freedom fight ers and the red hand Paisley was once close to the Ulster defence but its leadership soured on him after his abortive at tempt to stage a general strike in Ulster defence association leaders have suggested that the Only Way out of their political crisis in Ulster might be an Independent protestant state carved out of part of the of the official government Security the Ulster defence with is not it is a unit of the British army and has British most of its soldiers serve part the police Force of the ther Royal Ulster is officially no Politi but its members Are almost exclusively local protestant pastors exert Politi Cal influence throughout the with the fundamentalist clerics tending to be vehemently while those of the anglican Church of Ireland Are More but even the most Liberal protestants View the government of the Republic of Ireland As a captive of the most reactionary Branch of the roman Catholic there Are deep cultural and economic differences Between the two sections of Ireland the protestants of the North think of themselves As hard working and prosperous while they see catholics in both the North and South As somewhat shiftless of whatever political the protestants of Ulster have deeply in grained fears of being absorbed by the Catholic South in a unified government that would leave them a minority of one million to million these fears explain their concern that any talks Between London and Dublin Are ultimately designed to Lead to a unified despite thatchers of repeated Promise that no change in the status of Northern Ireland will take place without the consent of a majority in Paisley has found it easy to capital ize on protestant fears of an eventual British and time and time again raises the spectre of Thatcher seeking to divest Britain of the troublesome he reflects deep fears and Bias in said one longtime political observer and not just physical ones there Are Many unionists who seriously worry about their future for his own the British have provided Paisley with police though he professes to scorn body arguing that even an Ira Bullet washed in holy water will not penetrate my Paisley would appear to be a Likely target for but so far no serious attempt has been made against Why As Gerry a Catholic member of parliament for West put it recently Paisley and the Ira need each political Enigma and so Paisley in some an Enigma which Way will he urge his followers to go will he organize a third Force of volunteers to fight the Ira will he try to Force Britain to perpetuate the status quo in water or will he opt to move toward an Independent protestant slice of Northern Ireland Paisley has threatened to make Ulster ungovernable for the British if they oppose his yet he intones for a sunday night service we Pray for our our our Ian Paisley successfully articulates the fears of protestant working people that London will sell them out to o 11 to of Doc tit of o jul Cal Ullic Idle link by William Taylor Boston Globe Jerusalem a Shem is beautifully situated on a Hill near the hebrew University it is known to jews the world Over As israels Monu ment to the six million jews Slaught ered by the nazis during the second world in had a Sheri Means memorial to the names of the a visit to it is equivalent to watching holocaust on television and follow ing it up with a visit to the first of the nazi concentration in the i often drove by Dachau on the Way from my army Post at Crail sheim to but never a visit to had a Shem evokes not Only the horror of the but questions for the future of Israel and its Arab neigh you enter had a Shem through a Grove of Trees planted in memory of gentiles who helped jews during the second world each tree has a Small plaque with the names of the individuals and their Many of them Are from this Row of Trees you enter a Square dedicated to the jews who died in the Warsaw it is a Stark and moving site with Stone murals depict ing the heroes of the ghetto once inside the exhibit virtually no one the exhibit takes Visi tors through jewish Europe and its culture As it was before the second world from the exhibits depict the nazi the death the destruction of the jews and finally the 1945 As you come out of the exhibit there Are imitation one for each european engraved on each is a single line indicating the number of jews who died millions or hundreds of in the Chil Drens a Small Childs shoe is a mute reminder of the bestiality and inhumanity you have just it is Good to get outside and to see that the world is the same As you left a simple but Lovely Garden is dedicated to the children who with the statue of a jewish woman holding her head in with the brightly Shin ing Sun and the sound of Birds it almost makes everything seem right prime minister begins preoccupation with the holocaust has been widely As he said in an interview with two Boston Globe editors and when someone tells me they Are going to destroy the i believe what has not been Given a Clear enough is what Israel is doing to its future Hopes of Prosperity and Progress by its Pursuit of a headline policy in the West Bank and other Israel occupied there Are stories daily in both the israeli and Arab press of d israeli destruction of Arab d the closing of Arab d the shooting of d provocation of Arab residents by israeli religious All of these measures Are taken in the name of israeli but they Fly in the face of real Progress on the West Bank autonomy talks now taking place Between Egypt and they also hinder chances for the saudi Ara Bian peace which Israel has already surely israels current behaviour in the West Bank is not designed to encourage peaceful coexistence Between arabs and it appears to be a shortsighted policy intended to aggravate the already intense ideology political and social tensions Nur tured by 33 years of military and political instability in the Middle on the other Israel desperately needs to be reassured by its Arab neighbors that the recent saudi peace initiative indeed Means the recognition of Israel and is not just a Way of getting Israel to the negotiating table and then chopping off its no such reassurance is to be found in the collapse of the Arab Summit meeting in the egyptians have been successful in their dealings with the israelis not Only because they took the initiative but also because they established Good working relationships with their counterparts during the negotiating Mutual respect and under As Well As Strong personal have been this process needs to be expanded to other Arab it is time for Israel to admit the existence of one of its major problems and to acknowledge the palestinian yearning for National it is time for Israel and its Arab neighbors to sit Down and negotiate differences across the table rather than through the world Camp David made an important Start in the direction of peace the saudi plan May further its arabs and jews share Many common ties cultural and what remains to be seen is whether that common ground can serve As a basis for building a stable the alternative May be another had a for arabs and jews William Taylor is publisher of the Boston Patron client system still Strong in by Peter Smith special to the free press a few Days military police in brazils Northeast were ordered to take control of a town of deep in the arid because a 32yearold political vendetta had just claimed its 37th and 38th a 1978 assassinated outside his had been mayor a few years taking office when the incumbent was gunned Down in Broad Day Light by relatives of a Man he himself had shot in it was that incident that began the the feud is Between two families who Are struggling for political control of the which has Only one Telephone and is a nine hour drive from the coast the last 40 Miles of which is Over a primitive dirt while most of the killings have taken place in the vengeance has extended As far As Rio de Miles where members of both families have been the struggle did not arise from conflicting political the War ring families belonged to the same political party and even now do not differ on How things should be the Battle is simply for Power and Patron such vendettas were once very com Mon in Rural when Public authority rested with a few Large land holding died out a generation and the Persis tence of one is a source of Surprise and embarrassment to most the heyday of the feuds was during the old Republic when Brazil replaced its paternalistic Imperial Crown with a Loose Federal in which Power resided not with the Central government but the they in sover eign to All intents and imposing and collecting not Only taxes but customs and printing their own while the Central government included the customary trappings of a Republic supreme court it controlled Little reve nue in its own it was thus Beholden to the states for its and was particularly dependent on the wealthier the political system deliberately kept the Central government the for comprised state delegations of politicians who tended to vote As a Congress elected the National which meant that he had to be acceptable to the More wealthy Congress made sure that the National whose commander chief was the was kept Small and ill state Legislatures were controlled by landowners the Small Urban enclaves were virtually disenfranchised which gave a distinctly Rural cast to politics during the old Power on the local level naturally gravitated to those who owned the largest the famous coronets such men enjoyed private armies of who intimidated any who were foolish enough to defy the system functioned through a Hierarchy of personal the Coronel rounded up his peasants for elections voting was by show of hands in some Public place and helped them in times of need As a Reward for for delivering the vote to the state the Coronel received Pat the right to hand out favors and the state Legisla Ture selected the delegation to the National which in turn chose the president of the from each level came patronage As a Reward for violence was associated not Only with local but disputes Between Between state Par Between and even Between the National government and a state or while the economic change made necessary by the depression killed the old Republic and sounded the death Knell of the the political sys tem on which they based their Power has usually referred to As the Patron client it re Mains the usual Way in which Rural and Many Urban brazilians communicate with political it is also the Only system the traditionally dispossessed believe will bring them doonesbury any Security at All in a world they do not understand and which manipulates them seemingly at very the Patron client relationship asserts that the Strong will protect the in return for which the weak will serve the even though post1930 National governments have been increasingly in contrast to their old Republic Pride the political system has continued to be based on the Patron client even though it normally assumes less blatant forms than the it continues to dominate socioeconomic despite the fact that parts of Brazil have entered the postindustrial age in other who you know is Allim portent for Job seeking and Advance the violence that used to character ize brazilian politics without the persistence of this demonstrates that political violence has not disappeared it also shows that Brazil has not altered its traditional style of political rela Peter Smith teaches history at the University of Jerome a with your con Swit and mining were twins to to in this i Pont Cape if Iris Only a matter of i cant to m Job Simom a work i hell you let my you let own the 600d 600pby ;