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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 15 — The Georgia Bulletin, November 21,1985 Northern Ireland Accord Seen As Positive BY NC NEWS SERVICE The Anglo-Irish agree ment aimed at ending con flict in Northern Ireland is a “truly positive” develop ment, the Vatican news paper L’Osservatore Ro mano said Nov. 16. The accord, signed Nov. 15, is important because it recognizes the “principle of permanent consultation on a wide range of questions that are of vital interest to the life of the people,” the newspaper said in a page- one editorial. The standing committee of the Irish Catholic bishops’ conference gave a cautious welcome to the Anglo-Irish agreement. “Sixteen years of vio lence have brought much tribulation and heartbreak to both Protestant and Catholic communities in Northern Ireland,” said the bishops. “There is in both communities a great and widespread longing for an end to the troubles. It is our sincere hope that the Anglo-Irish agreement will make a genuine contribu tion toward reconcilia tion.” The bishops asked Cath olics to continue their prayers for peace. A main point in the agree ment is the establishment of an Intergovernmental Conference of British and Irish officials to deal on a regular basis with political, economic and security issues in violence-torn Nor thern Ireland. The accord gives the Irish government the right to “put forward views and proposals” relating to those issues, but recognizes British sover eignty over the mainly Pro testant province. British rule has been the key issue during years of strife in Northern Ireland between Catholics, who have been discriminated against and favor union with the Irish republic, and Protestants loyal to Bri tain. The round of “trou bles” which began in 1969 has claimed 2,500 lives. Two Northern Irish Pro testant leaders have criticized the agreement and said they will fight it in court. The Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of the pro-British Democratic Unionist Par ty, said Nov. 17 the agree ment would be “de stroyed.” He said “this is not a time for words; this is a time for action.” However, Mr. Paisley and James Molyneaux, leader of the Official Unionist Party, called for calm, pledging to seek legal and legislative means to cancel the accord. Anglican Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canter bury, England, and the Rev. Tudor Jones, moder ator of England’s Free Church Federal Council, called the pact “a signifi cant development.” In a joint statement Nov. 15, they called for “serious resolve” to “further the process of political recon ciliation, peace and eco nomic growth in Ireland.” Reaction from Northern Irish Catholic groups was mixed. John Hume, head of the Catholic Social Democratic and Labor Party, said the Anglo-Irish agreement is “an opportunity to make progress.” Sinn Fein, the legal political arm of the Provi sional Wing of the Irish Republican Army, said the pact is “propaganda.” The group said it would con tinue to advocate attacks against British rule of the province. In Ireland, opposition leader Charles Haughey called the pact “a very severe blow.. .to the concept oflrish unity.” Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald said: “Our purpose is to secure equal recognition and respect for the two iden tities in Northern Ireland.” Northern Irish “national ists,” who favor uniting the divided parts of the island, “can now raise their heads knowing their position is...on an equal footing” with the pro-British unionists, he said. Corporate Responsibility Movement Views N. Ireland Job Discrimination BY TRACY EARLY NEW YORK (NC) - Job discrimination a- gainst Catholics in Nor thern Ireland has become a new focus of concern among church groups in the corporate respon sibility movement. Their efforts are in fluenced by analysts who find a principal con tributing factor to the violence of Northern Ireland in a worsening job market with Catholics disproportionately unem ployed. Those Catholics holding jobs, according to the analysts, are dispro portionately relegated to low-level work. Sister Regina Murphy, corporate responsibility coordinator for the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in New York, said in a mid-November inter view that a resolution debated at the General Motors annual stock holder meeting this past May was the first on this issue brought before a U.S. corporation involved in Northern Ireland. Similar resolutions will be filed, she said, for ac tion at next year’s meetings of GM, Ameri can Brands, Ford, Fruehauf, Hughes Tool and TRW. Some two dozen U.S. companies are said to have operations in Nor thern Ireland, and they reportedly employ more than 10 percent of the work force. The corporate respon sibility movement is made up of groups holding stock in American com panies and attempting to influence those com panies’ activities through shareholder resolutions. Sister Murphy said the resolutions to be filed next year on Northern Ireland call on the companies to implement the MacBride Principles, a set of nine guidelines modeled on the Sullivan Principles deal ing with employment discrimination against non-whites in South Africa. The MacBride Principles were issued in November 1984 by four Irish leaders: — Sean MacBride, founder of Amnesty Inter national and 1974 Nobel Peace Prize winner for whom the principles are named. — Father Brian Brady, a former civil rights ac tivist in Northern Ireland now working in a Florida parish. — Inez McCormack, a Protestant who resigned as director of the Nor thern Ireland Fair Employment Agency after concluding it was in effective. — John Robb, a surgeon who chairs the New Ireland Group, a pre dominantly Protestant organization seeking a peaceful solution of the Northern Ireland conflict. Although Catholics are generally considered the main victims of dis crimination in Northern Ireland, Sister Murphy said the MacBride Prin ciples were neutral and would mean affirmative action on behalf of Pro testants if they suffered discrimination in a par ticular case. 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