Countdown to Drumcree; Sorry for `dreadful' security step says RUC boss but Orangemen say it's `obscene' Saulters appeals for calm Friends mistime their protest.(News)

From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) | Date: July 3, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

SECURITY forces moved into Portadown early yesterday morning to seal off the fields around Drumcree church in preparation for tomorrow's banned Orange Order parade.

In the largest security operation yet mounted for the controversial march in Portadown, hundreds of Army technical officers, medical staff and infantrymen moved in at around 2am.

Several fields were ploughed up along the security force line on the nationalist side of the area while soldiers put up a metal barrier and barbed wire along Drumcree bridge and dug a moat near the stream.

Portadown's Orange Lodge ...

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