The World : Ulster Protestant Aide Shot

A leading Protestant politician in Northern Ireland was shot and wounded in front of his 11-year-old daughter, an attack that police feared might set off a new wave of violence in the troubled British province. David Calvert, 40, identified as a senior member of the Rev. Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party, was shot by two men as he and his daughter left the dress shop he owns in Lurgan, 25 miles west of Belfast. He was reported “ill but conscious” in a hospital, with bullet wounds in the head and abdomen. The shooting followed telephoned death threats in the last few days against Paisley himself.