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Article: Ministers condemn `puerile' DUP tactic NORTHERN IRELAND Mandelson picks an ex-New York cop to transform the RUC as Democratic Unionists confirm plan to disrupt the Executive

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The Independent (London, England)
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June 1, 2000
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SUPPORTERS OF the Good Friday Agreement attacked the Rev Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party yesterday over its plan to try to bring down the accord from within the new cross-community Executive.

The DUP announcement that its two ministers will take up their posts in the Executive but will periodically resign to disrupt business was condemned as "puerile and self-defeating" by the nationalist SDLP.

Mr Paisley's party also announced that it will attempt to gather enough Ulster Unionist votes in the Northern Ireland Assembly to oust the party leader, David Trimble, as First Minister. The two DUP ministers will run their departments but will not attend Executive meetings or take part in ...

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