NORTHERN IRELAND : Britain Sends Troops to Stem Violence
From Times Wire Reports
A four-day showdown between police and the Orange Order, Northern Ireland’s main pro-British Protestant fraternal group, has triggered the worst violence in a decade in the British-ruled province. Britain is sending 1,000 more soldiers to boost its 17,500-member force in the region after the largely Protestant police force blocked Orangemen from marching through a Roman Catholic neighborhood in the town of Portadown on Sunday. Thousands of protesters have converged on a nearby village.
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