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Letter: Disloyalists

John Smurthwaite
Tuesday 20 January 1998 00:02 GMT
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Sir: Why do you continue to refer to Unionist terrorists in Northern Ireland as "loyalists"? If these people are loyalists, I shudder to think what traitors would be like.

JOHN SMURTHWAITE

Leeds

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