City the work of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).
These have inevitably led to crasnes with troops and unock cover police who don't stop to ask which side the gunmen are on before opening fire.
The long-term changes in the demographic pattern of the Six Counties pose big problems for British capitalism. Sovereignty over the Six Counties has beca an integral part of the functioning of the United Kingdom.
A united Ireland would creThis means that we can expect sharp surenes in the pointcal situation in the Six Counties in the next period, and new explosions as the Loyalists see the Protestant ascendancy under threat.
Realists know that talk of a stalemate in Ireland is becom ing unconvincing: the situation is changing quickly. Realists also know that a colonial power which doesn't win a colonial JAPAN'S ruling Liberal Democrats lost their overall majority in Sunday's elections. The Lib-Dems suffered 48 defections by MPs before the election, forming new anti-corruption grouplets.
But observers say that many of those who have left premier Miyazawa's party have themselves been involved in corrup. tion at the top levels of the LOP, and are merely fleeing the sinking ship.
Big losers were the main left wing party, the Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDPJ).
SOPJ leaders have being trying to rid themselves of their "Manist left wing. THE FRENCH government has threatened to withdraw its troops from the UN force in Bosnia unless the UN makes air strikes against the Serbs to defend the 'safe havens'.
The UN-enforced embargo against arms fo Bosnia has brought the besieged republic close to collapse. Now it seems certain that the ultra-right Croat and Serb bureauc. racies will carve up Bosnia. The British government is the other major partner in the UN's operation.
They oppose bombings while their forces remain in we region, testine that opin Ions at home would change i! British troops were killed