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2 unusual facts about UDR


Harry Kirkpatrick

In February 1983 Kirkpatrick was arrested on multiple charges including the murder of two policemen, two UDR soldiers, and Hugh McGinn, a Catholic member of the Territorial Army.

Murder of Gillian Johnston

The IRA later claimed the murder was a mistake and that the intended target was Johnston's brother, whom they had supposed to be a member of the UDR.


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2nd Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment

The funeral of one, Private Paul Sutcliffe, an Englishman, was held in Barrowford, Lancashire - the only UDR funeral to be held outside Northern Ireland.

Bernard Henry McGinn

In 1978 Dessie O'Hare and McGinn killed Thomas Johnston, a former member of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) in Keady, South Armagh.

Chadian parliamentary election, 2002

President Idriss Déby's party, the ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS), struck an important electoral alliance with an important opposition party, Lol Mahamat Choua's Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), thus weakening the opposition already divided by the boycott decided by the Party for Liberty and Development (PLD) and the Union for Democracy and Republic (UDR).

French legislative election, 1973

In order to end the May 1968 crisis, President Charles de Gaulle dissolved the National Assembly and his party, the Gaullist Party Union of Democrats for the Republic (UDR), obtained the absolute majority of the seats.

French legislative election, 1978

Because the Gaullist UDR was the largest party in the pro-Giscard majority in the Assembly, Giscard chose Jacques Chirac to lead the cabinet.

Guy Brice Parfait Kolélas

It also seemed evident that he was being positioned to succeed his father, and that arrangement was contrasted with the situation in the Union for Democracy and the Republic (UDR–Mwinda), another political party.

MyNewPlace

MyNewPlace was initially backed by SplitRock Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Trinity Ventures, and is also backed by some of a number of real estate investment trusts, including United Dominion Realty Trust (UDR), Essex Property Trust, Marcus & Millichap Venture Partners, ConAm Management Corporation, The Lane Company, and Cowboy Properties.

United Christian Democrats

In June 1998, Buttiglione led the party into the Democratic Union for the Republic (UDR), a new Christian democratic outfit launched by Francesco Cossiga and Clemente Mastella, who had left CCD to form the Christian Democrats for the Republic (CDR).


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