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Show Alo The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Sunday, February25, 1996 Catholios: Hatred Sewn Into N.Ireland’s Tapestry Boutros-Ghali Blames U.S. For U.N. MoneyCrisis By Matthew McAllester lence, manyCatholics are bracing By Stanley Meisler sian word for bureaucrats. keep promising that the United WASHINGTON — Secre ary-General Boutros Boutros: Ghali has warned that the UnitdN ns’ financial crisis. ontrary to what doubters States will soon do something think. is so real and dangerous that he may have to start closing the organization next summer if the United States and others refuse to pay what they owe grew up with Times Washington bureau. As a result, Boutros-Ghali said Wednesday, the United Nations is now owed $3.2 billion by its members, half ofit by the UnitedStates. The secretary-general, a for- mer professor and one-time acting foreign minister of derided the idea ad- vanced by optimists that somehow something will turn up soon to save the United Nations. ever done. Boutros-Ghali appeared to be referring to a plan by some Clinton administration offi cials to work out a deal with Congress. Underthe plan, Con- He said he wants “to show to the American people the gravity of the situation.” He said he would be forced to start closing down programs next June, July or August and that he anticipates controversy seping programs Thereis no evidence, however, that such bargaining is now going on and the secretary- general dismissed all the calls possible “pre- officials amount to a signal that the United States wants The tchiks,”’ Washington “apparahe said, using the Rus- Across the road from Patrick's store, whichsells everything from theyrealized I toilet public rebukes by American paper to framed color class and Christian — a gap yawned between their religions, cultures, economies and political powers, a gap wide enough to spawna war. Catholics in Northern Ireland said last week that while some forms of discrimination are less prevalent than theyusedto be, especially after the Irish Republi- priats of the Virgin Mary, is a hand-painted sign affixed to a wall. It reads: “‘Beechmount Says No To Stormont Rule. Bigotry. Discrimination. Bigots.” The message from the neighborhood is targeted at the Protestant-dominated assemblyin nearby Stormont that governed Northern Ireland for about 40 yearsearlier this century. It was a time when the disenfranchised minority Catholics had a negligible say in the economic andpolitieal power of Northern Ireland. Old memories are mixing with the new fears of discrimination. “I knew one place in town, where a friend of mine worked, where the Catholic staff had to can Army declared a temporary usea different toilet.” said Mary cease-fire almosta year anda half ago, being Catholic in Northern Ireland is still to exist as a secondclass citizen battling against daily discrimination in the workplace, on the streets, in their homes and the courts. Nowthat the IRAhas called off its cease-fire and returned to vio- Constantinou, 45, who worksin a bakery shop on the Falls Road. gards — white, mainly working text, analibi to explain to public opinion why the member states are late in paying their contributions. All the calis for reform, he stressed, deal with small amounts that would make little dent in the shortfall in funds. I don't believe that reform will solve the financial crisis. he said. “It is a purelypolitical problem. On another issue, BoutrosGhali said that he still has not decided whetherto seek a sec- havedifferent favorites now.” Discrimination against Catholies in Northern Ireland was a part of life in the British-ruled province for decades before Griffin had herfirst stone thrownat her by Protestant children. Even though the people who threw the stones were like her in manyre- gress before voting for any new ondterm, and he dodged questions about whether recent and there were 60 jobs, 55 of them would go to Protestants and five to Catholics,” said a man named Patrick who works in a five-and-dime type store in the Catholic heartland that is the Falls Road. ‘That's the way it was and that’s the wayit’s going to be years of delivering their paper.” promisedto consult with Con- in the United Nations about the programsselected for the first cuts, because countries er a Christmas card, some Protestants on Elaine Griffin's paper wasn't that different. But some would still spit at me after five and if the administration for reform a: If 100 fellows went for a job got to know me, gress would rescind its cuts in U.N. payments if the United U.N. pea Ratherthan tipping heror giving route showed their feelings for thegirl by spitting at her. ‘They didn’t know what a Catholic was or what I believed in,” said Griffin, 18, now traineeelementaryschoo] teacher in Belfast ‘It was just ignorance. Once they but nothingis Nations were to adopt reforms The American failure to pay has induced many other cou! tries to hold back, the secretary-general told reporters and editors in the Los Angeles Egypt, to pay its debt, “You'll go for jobs and when they find out where you for a renewal of the bigotry they NEWSDAY BELFAST, Northern Ireland — “She had to go downstairs to use thetoilet in the factory.” Protestants deny that they dis- live, they just say, ‘We'll call you’ — and you never hear from them.’ CHARLES BEGLEY Unemployed resistance to what theysee as the threatening dogma of the Catholic Church, Catholicism is the religion of the overwhelming majority of people south of the border, in the Republic of Ireland. “Protestants as a whole don't like someonetelling you what to do,” said David Milligan, 47, a Protestant who is a foreman in a textile factory in Belfast. “My minister knows I havea drink or two but he won't tell me that I'm doing something wrong. 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