11.   Meanwhile, riots involving loyalist Protestant prisoners broke out overnight in a Belfast jail which had seen similar distrurbances three days earlier, the Northern Ireland Office said.

12.   Loyalist politicians in talks with a British minister here Thursday warned they would be discredited with the paramilitaries they represent unless Britain began releasing loyalist prisoners.

13.   On Monday, loyalist prisoners, who exert a strong influence on Protestant paramilitaries, said they did not want a return to a sectarian war with the IRA.

14.   Such an announcement by the UVF prisoner group would mean that all loyalist paramilitary prisoners had withdrawn their support for the multiparty talks.

15.   That was placed behind a radiator and killed two loyalist prisoners.