21.   The Loyalist Volunteer Force, a Protestant gang trying to wreck cease-fires by the main pro-British Protestant paramilitary groups and the Catholic-based IRA, claimed responsibility.

22.   The latest evidence of the link came Monday when one Protestant gang killed a drug-dealing competitor.

23.   The Loyalist Volunteer Force, a Protestant gang trying to wreck cease-fires by the main pro-British Protestant paramilitary groups and by the Catholic-based IRA, claimed responsibility.