Paisley strain

A MAJOR SPLIT is developing inside the Ulster Unionist Party over its attitude to the Rev Ian Paisley and his extreme right-wing Protestant Unionist Party.

The row, which has been festering ever since the events of last August, came to head at the weekend when Armagh official Unionist candidate Jack Maginnis issued an unprecedented statement in which he PUBLICLY THANKED the Paisleyites for staying out of the Armagh contest.

• PRAISED their 'extreme loyalty and patriotic love for Ulster' and PLEDGED, if elected, to 'defend the constitution and the good name of this province with much greater zeal than ever before'.

The Paisleyites, he added, 'had and still have valid reasons' for opposing him!

Appeasement

Paisley, of course, is sharply critical of the Chichester Clark Stormont government, which he claims has carried out a policy of appeasement by agreeing the Callaghan 'reforms and seeking closer links with the 'green Tories' of the Eire government.

Yet many of Chichester Clark's official list of Westminster minster candidates hard mineMaginnis is not alone.

Chichester Clark has given in banister dorient to dil dates, but they have refused to return the favour by endorsing his policies He dare not risk deepening the split on the eve of the election.

Powerful

The Ulster Unionist Party-. Tarvism ras drifting hichestes integral part of British towards Paisley Clark interParty's break-up is symptomatic of the extremely severe political crisis now developing in Britain's oldest that the troops last August lad the much-vaunted reforms enormously increased the have dangers facing the working class in the six counties and throughout Ireland.

Fruits

The rapid swing to Paisleyism is the fruit the Labour government's betrayal of every socialist principle in Ulster.

To socialist will mourn th reak-up of the Ulster Union ist Party.

But its crisis is a symptom for civil war in Ulster of the ruling-class preparation Workers are instin tives wipreparing massive must now begin to take up in earnest the revolutionary tasks in front.

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He told an election meeting in the Bolshoi Theatre that no appreciable progress had been made in normalizing relations with China or in the current border talks in Peking.

He said that because of the Indo China war and Washington's support for Israel, Soviet-American relations had failed to develop in recent But the Kremlin believed the establishment of good relations between them was not only in the interest of Soviet people, but of the whole