WINNING SMILE: Dr Paisley relaxes at his east Belfast home.
U.K. Unionist voters in Northern Ireland threw up a new obstacle to the peace process by handing power to Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party (D.U.P.), which is out to topple the 1998 Good Friday agreement. The fiery preacher's party became the province's largest, ousting former First Minister David Trimble's moderate Ulster Unionists. The D.U.P. won by promising it would not share power with the first choice of nationalists, Gerry Adams' Sinn Fein, which picked up 24 of 108 Assembly seats. During victory celebrations, Paisley threatened to expel any D.U.P. member...
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