1. In Belfast, some Catholics were dragged out of their homes by Protestant mobs and their homes set afire. 2. The scene was remarkable not only for its violence but because it involved a largely Protestant mob attacking a largely Protestant security force. 3. Only a year ago, a Protestant mob opposed to the peace agreement that created the government pelted Rodgers with eggs when she visited a fishing port. 4. Police fired plastic bullets Wednesday night at a Protestant mob taunting five Catholic families who were evacuating their homes in a religiously mixed part of north Belfast. 5. Protestant mob taunts army, police in Portadown. 6. Protestant mobs began blocking the front entrance to Holy Cross in June. 7. Protestant mobs menaced Catholics outside three churches as they tried to attend weekend Mass, forcing one Saturday night service to be canceled. 8. A swelling Protestant mob and four nights of Protestant rioting elsewhere forced police to let the Orangemen through, but then Catholic areas erupted in fiercer rioting. 9. Catholic homes had been attacked by Protestant mobs in Belfast, and the British government put troops on the streets to help keep order. 10. For four nights, the Protestant mob there swelled behind lines of barbed wire, and Protestants elsewhere rioted and blocked roads, the main airport and port. |
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