31.   The loyalist groups have formally maintained their cease-fire to this day, although they are widely believed to be behind unclaimed killings of Catholics.

32.   The Progressive Unionist Party, the political arm of another major loyalist paramilitary group, is scheduled to review its peace talks strategy on Sunday.

33.   The party that represents the Ulster Defense Association, a loyalist paramilitary group, was expelled last month after the group admitted it had been killing people.

34.   The Progressive Unionists are a political party representing the Ulster Volunteer Force, the other main loyalist paramilitary group that has been on cease-fire for more than three years.

35.   There was a spate of shootings by loyalist paramilitary groups amid a pattern of stepped-up attacks on Catholics.

36.   This ensures that fringe parties crucial to the process, such as those with ties to loyalist paramilitary groups, will get seats.

37.   They say Stobie was in charge of supplying weapons to the assassins of the Ulster Freedom Fighters, a loyalist paramilitary group of Protestant extremists.

38.   Under the agreement, Irish republican and British loyalist paramilitary groups are supposed to begin turning in their weapons within two years.

39.   Very few ordinary people believe that the Irish Republican Army or the major loyalist groups are prepared to abandon their cease-fires and plunge Northern Ireland back into the abyss.

40.   Under the agreement, Irish republican and British loyalist paramilitary groups are to begin turning in their weapons within two years.