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Shock plan for Ulster 'Adsurd'.
(From Belfast Telegraph)
Byline: Ben Lowry and Brian Walker
PLANS by Edward Heath's Government to redraw the border to create a Protestant-only province were dismissed as "absurd" today by a cross-section of local politicians who were representatives at the time.
The proposals are unveiled in Cabinet documents from 1972, which have been released to the Public Record Office under the 30-year rule.
The official files show that Mr Heath's Tory Government drew up the secret plans, which included moving hundreds of thousands of Catholics into the Republic and a similar number of Protestants into a redrawn Northern Ireland.
The proposals - described as a "worst-case scenario" - were drafted in the middle of 1972, the most violent year of the Troubles in which 470 people were killed.
The leader of the SDLP at the time, Lord Fitt (then Gerry Fitt), said he had never heard of the plans until today.
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