1. For the second time in three days, a bomb believed to have been planted by Roman Catholic guerrillas ripped the center of a predominantly Protestant town Monday. 2. James Farl Powers was born in Jacksonville, Ill., and grew up as a Roman Catholic in a largely Protestant town. 3. Scores of Catholic properties have been attacked, including two churches in predominantly Protestant towns. 4. Orangemen and supporters formed human barricades across roads in a dozen mostly Protestant towns. 5. A car bomb exploded in a staunchly pro-British Protestant town Monday a few hours after peace talks resumed. 6. A few hours later, a car bomb exploded outside a police station in a pro-British Protestant town. 7. A car bomb exploded Saturday in Banbridge, shattering shop windows in the center of the mostly Protestant town, but no serious injuries were reported immediately. 8. A minor success came Tuesday in Portadown, a pro-British Protestant town, when both sides permitted a quiet Orange Order march through a Catholic neighborhood. 9. An IRA-style attack on an unstaffed police barracks in a rural Protestant town injured nobody late Saturday, police said. 10. And in Portadown, a mostly Protestant town near Lurgan, rival gangs of Protestant and Catholic youths clashed near the town center. |
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