1.   Allowing Sinn Fein ministers into the cabinet before the IRA turns over a single gun is seen by Protestant groups as surrender.

2.   Although the Mitchell commission addressed the question of weapons held by Protestant paramilitary groups, the greater focus has been on the Irish Republican Army.

3.   An outlawed Protestant paramilitary group, The Red Hand Defenders, which had publicly threatened to attack Catholic parents and police officers, claimed responsibility for the blast.

4.   Another noted that while the IRA had been responsible for more than half the killings, Protestant groups had killed more people in the last few years.

5.   Billy Hutchinson, a hard-line Unionist politician with ties to Protestant paramilitary groups, could hardly hide his disgust.

6.   Both the IRA and Protestant paramilitary groups have observed cease-fires for more than three years.

7.   A new Adams visa is opposed by David Trimble, the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, the largest Protestant group in the predominantly Protestant north.

8.   A peaceful solution to the long and bloody conflict in Northern Ireland inched closer Thursday when Protestant paramilitary groups called a halt to their campaign of violence.

9.   A particularly violent Protestant group, the Loyalist Volunteer Force, declared last week that it was ceasing military operations.

10.   A Protestant paramilitary group, the Ulster Defense Association, has been blamed by the police for organizing the current rash of riots.