Barricades Go Up for Protestant March
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British army engineers erected barricades of barbed wire and steel to keep Protestant Orangemen from marching through the main Roman Catholic section of the bitterly divided town of Portadown in Northern Ireland.
But military and police commanders said they expected today’s standoff to fizzle out. Since 1998 they have refused to let about 2,000 members of the Orange Order make a march from a rural Anglican church past the Catholic homes, because previous marches had inspired violence.
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