BRITAIN : Northern Ireland Rioting Spreads

Rioting in Northern Ireland sparked by clashes over the Protestant “marching season” grew into the province’s most widespread violence in two years, putting peace talks on hold, threatening a resumption of sectarian warfare and prompting London to prepare about 1,000 troops for deployment to the region. The disturbances began Sunday when police stopped a Protestant fraternal organization from parading through a Roman Catholic neighborhood in Portadown, 25 miles south of Belfast.