1.   A police report said most killings were by Protestant paramilitary groups, while Catholic and Protestant gangs were equally responsible for maimings and beatings by vigilante enforcers.

2.   Catholic parents were prevented from escorting their children to school by Protestant gangs throwing stones.

3.   Police on both sides of the border suspected that a renegade Protestant gang, the Loyalist Volunteer Force, was behind the threat.

4.   Analysts paid little attention to that threat until an IRA splinter gang killed the leader of the Loyalist Volunteers, a renegade Protestant gang opposed to the talks.

5.   But Margaret McClenaghan of the IRA-linked party Sin Fein said Protestant gangs had started the rioting by throwing bricks and bottles at Catholics.

6.   But Margaret McClenaghan of the IRA-linked party Sinn Fein said Protestant gangs had started the rioting by throwing bricks and bottles at Catholics.

7.   By killing Wright, then Guiney, the INLA seems to be deliberately goading disillusioned members of both mainstream Protestant gangs.

8.   He had told his wife, Marie, that local elements of an outlawed Protestant gang, the Loyalist Volunteer Force, had threatened him the previous week.

9.   If the Ulster Unionists attend, two small but influential parties linked to pro-British Protestant paramilitary gangs will also attend.

10.   In a Protestant district of Belfast, a gunman killed William Stobie, a former Special Branch informer inside the Ulster Defense Association, the largest armed Protestant gang.