The World - News from March 3, 1988

Britain acknowledged it will never defeat the Irish Republican Army by military force alone and announced new legislation to combat discrimination against Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland. “On its own, there is no military solution,” said Tom King, Britain’s Cabinet minister in charge of Northern Ireland, which has a Protestant majority. “We are going to defeat terrorism but it is not going to be done by military means alone,” he said in a statement stressing “sensible cooperation” and better community relations. King announced legislation designed to combat anti-Catholic job discrimination in the province, where Catholics have 2 1/2 times the unemployment rate of Protestants.