A pantomime with no good jokes men's commanding officer yesterday.
• We are operating in a terrorist situation", said Thomson, CO of the 2 Bn, Parachute Regt. "It is every bit as hazardous and difficult as Palestine, Malaya, Cyprus other counter-insurgence operation."
*Harsh as it may sound, said Col said Colin has the are But Party and they - who Northern But are always good Allance to make anonymous WE ARE IN HERE FOR YOU, YOU ARE OUT THERE FOR US attempt to they (the mess of it they want' short run indeed.
into a second TITSI then never mind' The only This was because the SDLP and DUP could not agree on should discussed The problem was Paisley's insistance that no mention should be made of either power sharing or an Irish dimension.
Arguing that the Irish national question was irrelevant was Paisley's win the 'joke of the conterence' award. bul at least ne showed some seriousness when he said: "As an Ulsterman, I don't think understand Northern Ireland: they have made a Therefore, it would be better for Ulstermen to shape what The first day of the conference ended with no agreement on what should be discussed and when the same happened on the second day it seemed that the show was in for a very But then Humphrey Atkins made a bold attempt to turn the pantomime farce by suggesting. that conterence should be örganised to discuss things which people wouldn't agree to discuss al conference. Hardly diplomatic stroke of genius, but again good for a laugh. Atkins' lack of was underlined by his comment, 'if we can't find agreement spoil-sport in thest