The World : Police Attacked in Belfast

About 1,500 Protestants bitterly opposed to the Anglo-Irish agreement on Northern Ireland attacked police with bricks and bottles, injuring 37 officers, as Cabinet ministers from Britain and Ireland held their first meeting under the agreement at Stormont Castle near Belfast. The Protestant crowd, shut out by tight security from demonstrating at Stormont Castle, tried to storm the Maryfield House, which will house a joint delegation set up under the agreement. The demonstrators pelted police and tore the gate from the building’s hinges, but were eventually restrained by the Rev. Ian Paisley, an Ulster Protestant leader.