11. Arsonists attacked a third Roman Catholic school and a home early Friday in an escalating campaign to intimidate Catholics in this predominantly Protestant town. 12. Arsonists damaged a Roman Catholic elementary school and two homes early Thursday in the latest effort to intimidate Catholics in this mostly Protestant town. 13. But both gangs continue to operate competing criminal rackets in working-class Protestant towns like Portadown, where tensions between the two armed camps run particularly high. 14. But on Sunday, the force backed Catholic protesters in Portadown, a mostly pro-British Protestant town. 15. But last year they successfully blocked the parade, triggering more Protestant rioting that left three young Catholic brothers burned to death in another predominantly Protestant town. 16. Dissidents detonated car bombs in two predominantly Protestant towns in February and fired mortar shells at two rural British security installations in March. 17. Expecting trouble, British troops and police were deployed in a ring of armored cars at every road into this predominantly Protestant town southwest of Belfast. 18. In February, the breakaway members bombed two predominantly pro-British Protestant towns in Northern Ireland. 19. Last July police tried to block Orangemen in fields north of Portadown, a mostly Protestant town southwest of Belfast, before they reached the Catholic Garvaghy Road. 20. Last week, gunmen fatally shot two Catholics at random in two predominantly Protestant towns in Northern Ireland. |
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