Ulster Civil Rights ultimatum to Government

N ultimatum went out on Sunday night to the Northern Ireland Government from the Ulster Civil Rights Association that it must issue a timetable of reforms within the next six weeks or face further trouble.
it was made at a meeting at Enniskillen which reviewed the association's plan of action following the voting reforms promised by the, new Premier, Major James Chichester-Clark.
Mr, Kevin Boyle, a Belfast University lecturer who is a Civil Rights executive member, said: "Unless they indicate a timetable for their promises ... we will continue with stages of the civil disobedience campaign." Ile said their demands were one man one vote at age 18, a points system for housing. remedial machinery for local council grievances, and a boundary commission.
SEVEN ARRESTS
Seven people were arrested early on Sunday in Belfast after near-riot in the Crumlin Road area, where Catholic and Protestant districts meet. It was the second outbreak of violence within 24 hours.
Petrol bombs. stones and gratings were thrown at police, and windows were smashed. One petrol bomb set light to a house and destroyed the ground floor. Nobody was hurt, but the tenant and his wife were treated in hospital for shock. The row began shortly after about 50 people gathered outside a public house after closing time. Police reinforcements with batons and metal shields quickly dispersed them. A police spokesman said several police suffered minor injuries.
A similar incident developed in Crumlin Road on Friday after a public-houSe brawl spilled into the streets. Next day two labourers were sentenced in court to three months' jail each, a youth of 19 to one month. and a 22year-old housewife was fined £5.
Passing sentence, the magistrate, Mr. Gerald Lynn, said: "Six months' Prohibition might help to solve Northern Ireland's problems." Two policemen were injured in the fighting, and one was sent to hospital with a broken kneecap.
There was no indication that either riot was connected directly with the Catholic Civil Rights campaign which has been going on for the past seven. months. Both Civil Rights leaders and the Protestant extremists have toned down their protests since the election of Mr. Chichester-Clark early this month.