Saturday, May 7, 2011

William Craig, Politician in Northern Ireland, Is Dead at 86

His family announced the death in the newspaper The Belfast News Letter.
Mr. Craig surged to international attention in the 1970s as the leader of the Ulster Vanguard, a right-wing, self-described umbrella group for Protestant partisans dedicated to union with Britain and opposed to Irish nationalism. At a 1972 political rally in Belfast, purporting to be the biggest in Northern Island in a half-century, Mr. Craig said Protestants might have to “liquidate the enemy.”

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