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BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Police
commanders and politicians appealed Wednes
day for Protestant hard-liners to call off street
protests that have caused rioting, fear and de
struction across Northern Ireland.
At daybreak, Belfast commuters picked their
way carefully down roads strewn with shattered
glass, rubble and occasional burned-out vehicles,
the product of a third consecutive night of unrest
in hard-line Protestant neighborhoods. In the
most serious incident, unidentified gunmen ex
changed fire with police in north Belfast but no
body was reported injured.
The mounting attacks on police and Catholic
properties are designed to force British authori
ties to reverse their decision to bar a traditional
Protestant parade from a Catholic neighborhood
this Sunday. The now-annual dispute first trig
gered widespread violence in 1996, when police
eventually reversed a decision to block the same
parade by the Orange Order.
Many Catholics despise Orange parades,
which often feature drum-thumping "kick the
pope" bands and commemorate 300-year-old
Protestant victories over Catholics. More than
2,000 such parades are staged each summer,
only a few dozen of which go through pre
dominantly Catholic areas.
This time Northern Ireland's police force, the
Royal Ulster Constabulary, has responded firm
ly when challenged, particularly in farm fields
near Portadown, 30 miles southwest of Belfast.
There, security forces for the past three nights
have prevented Protestant mobs from reaching
the nearby Garvaghy Road, where most of Por-
tadown's Catholic minority lives.
On Wednesday morning, British army engi
neers erected a 20-foot-high steel barricade
backed by concrete across the Orangemen's in
tended path.
Late Tuesday, police came under attack from
a 500-strong Protestant mob. Attackers hurled
firecrackers and rocks, fired ball bearings from
slingshots, and squirted acid from syringes at
rows of riot police, who were heavily girded with
body armor, helmets, shields and flame-retardant
uniforms. Police said nine officers suffered in
juries ranging from acid burns to punctured
eardrums.
Police deployed two mobile water cannons on
loan from Belgian police. After repeatedly dous
ing the crowd, riot police with clubs and locked-
together shields pushed protesters back up a hill
to the Anglican church that is the focal point for
the annual march. They arrested four people and
the rest gradually dispersed.
Leaders of the Orange Order, Northern Ire
land's major Protestant fraternal group with
more than 50,000 members, said they would
continue to call for supporters to rally at the con
frontation point and to block roads across the
British territory. They say they are determined to
march down the Garvaghy Road back into Por
tadown on Sunday.
"We don't want to see violence, but the ordi
nary Protestant people now are so frustrated, so
angry, because our views and rights have been
ignored throughout this so-called peace
process," said David Jones, chief spokesperson
for the Orange Order in Portadown.
Politicians from the province's two major
Catholic-supported parties and the biggest
Protestant-supported party, the Ulster Unionists,
called that position irresponsible.
"You cannot call people onto the roads and
then be able to control events. We've learned that
lesson year after year," said Reg Empey, an Ul
ster Unionist member of Northern Ireland's new
Protestant-Catholic administration, the corner
stone of a 1998 peace accord.
"There is nothing at all that justifies shooting
incidents or throwing bricks," said Paul Berry, a
member of the hard-line Democratic Unionist
Party. "But we must understand that there is
great frustration within the Protestant unionist
community over the rights that are being taken
away from us."
Troubled march through Portadown
Officials in Northern Ireland are appealing for Protestant hard-liners to call off
street protests that have caused rioting, fear and destruction across the region
The protests and attacks are to force British authorities to cancel the ban on a
traditional Protestant parade through a Catholic neighborhood.
The Orange Order
Largest Protestant organization in Northern Ireland
with about 80,000 active members.
«► Formed in 1795 after a clash between Protestants and
Catholics in the Battle of the Diamond near Portadown.
► The Orange Order stages more than 2,000 marches each
summer to commemorate a variety of historical events. The
annual Portadown march, every first or second Sunday in
July, recalls Protestant losses in World War I. Its biggest
mobilization, every July-?
1690 defeat of Catholic
the Protestant William of
Battle of the Boyne.
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King James II by
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In recent days
security forces have
prevented Protestant
mobs from reaching
Garvaghy Road,
where most of
Portadown’s Catholic
minority lives.
Source: Compiled from AP wire reports
Wm. J. Gastello/AP
News in Brief
Saudi to produce
additional crude oil
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LONDON (AP) — Oil prices fell 6
percent Wednesday as traders dis
missed attempts by OPEC mem
bers to dissuade Saudi Arabia from
its plan to unilaterally pump an ad
ditional 500,000 barrels of crude
per day.
Libya appeared to side with Iran,
Iraq and other OPEC members urg
ing Saudi Arabia not to act alone,
and the Saudis, strove to find con
sensus on the divisive issue.
However, industry analysts pre
dicted that Saudi Arabia, the
world's No. 1 oil producer, would
push ahead with its plan to boost
output if oil prices fail to drop
sharply in coming days. The mar
kets seemed to anticipate a pro
duction increase, with crude and
other oil-related products declining.
“I don’t think they’re backing off,”
Leo Drollas, chief economist of the
Center for Global Energy Studies in
London, said of the Saudis. “I think
they’d be willing to put the oil on the
market themselves.”
The 10 other OPEC members re
acted with anger and disbelief after
Saudi Arabia said Monday it would
add about 2 percent to the cartel’s
official output of 25.4 million bar
rels a day.
Except for Kuwait and the Unit
ed Arab Emirates, no other OPEC
members have enough surplus ca
pacity to quickly raise their produc
tion levels.
In a conciliatory gesture, a Sau
di official, speaking Wednesday on
condition of anonymity, stressed
that Saudi Arabia would make a de
cision after consulting with other
OPEC members.
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