1.   Only the two main loyalist urban paramilitary organisations were able occasionally to produce a bomb of that size.

2.   If the talks collapsed in failure, the IRA and the main loyalist paramilitary groups would have probably ended their cease-fires.

3.   Police sources described Guiney as a leading member of the Ulster Defense Association, one of the two main loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland.

4.   The IRA and the two main loyalist paramilitary groups are observing cease-fires, while reserving the right to dispense vigilante justice to petty criminals and dissidents in their neighborhoods.

5.   The other main loyalist party, the Progressive Unionists, will meet Sunday to decide whether they will return to the talks.

6.   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.

7.   Wright and his followers had been members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, the smaller of the two main loyalist paramilitary groups.

8.   Protestant gunmen matched the IRA cease-fire in mid-October, and fringe parties allied to the two main loyalist paramilitary groups began separate talks with British officials in December.

9.   Ervine said, however, that the main loyalist groups were committed to holding their fire.

10.   He was also under threat from the main loyalist paramilitaries who had boasted of their determination to kill him.