61.   When police blocked one Protestant march in July, Trimble led protests that triggered widespread violence.

62.   Violence began after Annesley ordered his forces to block a pro-British Protestant march through an Irish Catholic enclave of a town called Portadown.

63.   With more Protestant marches scheduled for this week, the potential for Catholic violence was brewing.

64.   Further controversial Protestant marches are planned for August, especially in the mainly Catholic town of Londonderry.

65.   In Londonderry, Protestant marches passed off peacefully during the day, despite a sitdown protest by Catholic demonstrators.

66.   In another development, the organisers of a Protestant march planned for the Ormeau Road area of Belfast announced Wednesday that they were cancelling it.

67.   A police decision to allow the Protestant march past a Roman Catholic area of Portadown caused fury among even moderate nationalists on both sides of the border.

68.   A massive Protestant march got off to a slow and peaceful start here Saturday after last-minute concessions by both Catholics and Protestants diffused a potentially explosive confrontation.

69.   A smaller Protestant march in Belfast on Saturday has already been banned from going through a heavily Catholic area.

70.   An attempt to block a Protestant march in the town of Drumcree south of here in July set the stage for bitter confrontation between police and Protestants.