Word: armagh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sober and, at times, tearful mood began to lift and approach the ebullient mode when he began shaking hands along a rope line in Omagh. The crowds, laughing and smiling, chanted, "We want Bill! We want Bill!" By the time he spoke in the ancient cathedral town of Armagh, the President was nearly back to his familiar, self-confident form. "Never underestimate the impact you can have on the world," Clinton said. "Thank you for the springtime of hope you have given the world. Thank you for reminding us of one of life's most important lessons--that...
...that there's much Clinton can actually achieve in his whirlwind tour, beyond meeting folks at Omagh and Armagh and having a few welcome photo-ops with party leaders. If the violence has finally abated, it did so without the President's presence. Much more important is a long-term commitment to serious economic investment in the long-troubled province, which Clinton has already promised to give. Hence the first words he uttered in Belfast were ones that he would not have dared whisper in Russia: "What can I do to help...
...news of the bomb devastated the people of Belfast. On Friday night Gerry Cummings, 22, an economics student from County Armagh, was waiting to meet friends outside the Pink Flamingo nightclub. Their nights out may be curtailed now. "Belfast was like a city reborn without the fear and the killing," he said. "Catholics and Protestants were mixing in the pubs. How many more widows and orphans will it take before the politicians and the terrorists see sense again...
...weeks ago, a Roman Catholic nun was killed along with three Ulster / policemen in a land mine explosion in County Armagh. Four days earlier a bomb exploded at the London Stock Exchange, causing considerable damage. In June eight people were wounded when a similar device went off in the Carlton Club, a Conservative Party bastion near London's St. James's Palace. In May two Australian lawyers were gunned down in the town square in Roermond, in the Netherlands, apparently mistaken for off-duty British soldiers...