81.   Protestant leaders have refused to move into wider negotiations until they get firm disarmament pledges.

82.   A hardline Protestant leader alluded to alleged friendships in a political speech on Saturday.

83.   A similar recent meeting with Protestant leaders was closed to the press and ended long after midnight.

84.   Action on the measure was halted due to objections by Roman Catholic bishops and Protestant leaders.

85.   Ahern said he hoped that Clinton could come, but noted that some Protestant leaders in Northern Ireland had opposed a visit before the referendum.

86.   And Protestant leaders, predicting that the British government would concede a pivotal role for Mitchell, branded the former Senate majority leader as biased.

87.   Blair and Mowlam next met the Protestant leaders of two smaller parties, and finally confered until midnight with Mitchell himself.

88.   Britain has already twice taken power from local hands for brief periods to forestall deadlines to re-elect Trimble as the Protestant leader.

89.   Britain and the Protestant leaders want IRA disarmament to start before they join Sinn Fein in talks.

90.   But David Trimble, Protestant leader of the new cross-community government, appealed to Prime Minister Tony Blair to strengthen British laws to match Irish proposals.