21.   Most Protestant leaders here see the Clinton administration as favoring the Republican movement, which has energetic supporters in Washington and New York.

22.   Ms. Faulkner is the daughter of Brian Faulkner, a Protestant leader who a quarter-century ago served as prime minister of Northern Ireland.

23.   On Sunday evening, IRA guerrillas using automatic rifles shot to death two Protestant paramilitary leaders on a Belfast street.

24.   Protestant leaders assure their supporters that the accord strengthens the union with Britain.

25.   Protestant leaders have said Campbell was killed in an internal Republican struggle to control drug trafficking.

26.   Protestant leaders in the North said this was a dangerous concession to the IRA.

27.   Protestant leaders object that the exemption amounts to an unacceptable loophole.

28.   Protestant leaders, however, say the killings already show that the IRA has not abandoned murder as a political weapon.

29.   Protestant leaders, like David Trimble of the Ulster Unionist Party, think the council is a great idea.

30.   Protestant leaders, like Trimble, want it to be weaker, controlled by a new regional legislative assembly that would have a Protestant majority.