Belfast March OKd; Violence Continues
Outraged Protestant mobs battled police, blocked roads with burning cars and lobbed gasoline bombs and rocks, ignoring a government panel’s decision permitting an upcoming march through a hostile Roman Catholic neighborhood in Belfast. The turmoil came despite repeated appeals from leaders of the Orange Order for peaceful demonstrations against a ban imposed Sunday on a march through Portadown. The Northern Ireland Parades Commission decided to allow a Protestant march next Monday in the capital and admitted that its decision took into account widespread anger over the ongoing blockade in nearby Portadown.
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