For almost a year, Northern Ireland has been rocked by stabbings, shootings, bombings and riots that have left scores injured and three dead. Behind the trouble is a growing tension between Northern Ireland's 1,250,000 Protestants loyal to the Queen and the country's 500,000 Roman Catholics, who want closer ties with the Catholic-dominated Republic of Ireland. Last week Prime Minister Terence O'Neill's government took its first legal action against the man who has stirred up much of the recent trouble. He is big, garrulous Rev. Ian Paisley, 40, leader of Northern Ireland's Free...
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