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...spirit of cooperation arose with the signing of the historic Anglo- Irish accord in 1985. As a result of the agreement, Dublin now has a say in the affairs of Ulster, while recognizing that British sovereignty in the province can be changed only through democratic means. Recently the Republic has sought to intercept clandestine arms shipments into both north and south. In November 7,000 Irish troops and police launched Operation Mallard, an extensive search through 50,000 homes near the border and in large cities like Dublin. The haul: four I.R.A. fugitives and a cache of 22 rifles...
Fearing Dublin's interference, Protestants heatedly condemned the Anglo- Irish accord. Passions cooled as Britain firmly defended the treaty, and the Republic's influence did not grow as much as anticipated. Still, Protestants continue to oppose the treaty and have met with the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher six times in the past six months to negotiate an alternative to it. London is skeptical there will be one. Says a British official: "Mrs. Thatcher believes 200% that they cannot come up with an acceptable offer...
...efforts, Arias was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But as he went to Stockholm to accept it in mid-December, he received the unsettling news that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra had announced plans for a large military buildup. Arias denounced the move as a violation of the Guatemala accord. At about the same time, U.S. congressional leaders approved a compromise measure to renew nonmilitary aid to the contras through February. The contras, meanwhile, launched what they called their biggest offensive of the war. All in all, Arias' prizewinning peace plan was starting to look shaky...
Just before Washington and Moscow concluded their historic accord on intermediate-range arms reductions, the talks nearly snagged over a missing photograph. The matter was hardly trivial. The treaty called for the elimination of Soviet SS-20 missiles, but nobody on the U.S. team had ever seen one. Finally, the Soviets produced a grainy Xerox of a photograph of the missile, along with a promise to send the picture itself later. It has yet to materialize. One possible reason for Moscow's reluctance: the SS-20 is identical to the first two stages of the long-range SS-25, which...
Although the meager results on substantive issues hardly justified the excitement and euphoria that surrounded last week's summit, what really mattered -- and captured the public imagination -- was the personal accord and the images of friendliness that pervaded the event. In diplomacy, especially in the age of television, the perception that tensions have been reduced tends to mean that tensions have in fact been reduced. What happened in Washington last week is that the perceptions changed measurably -- and for the better -- on both sides. This was true for the delighted Washington bystanders who had their hands pumped by Gorbachev...