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...British government also has a very crucial role in pushing toward the goals outlined in the Good Friday Agreement. Prime Minister Tony Blair started things off by disassembling spy towers in the county of Armagh last week, and he must continue with his promise to reduce the British military presence in Northern Ireland...
...more than 50 incidents of foot-and-mouth in the U.K. had turned up-from Dover on the southeastern tip to Lockerbie in Scotland-and fresh cases were expected at the rate of six to 10 a day. The confirmation of a suspected case on a farm in south Armagh, Northern Ireland, just inside the border with the Republic of Ireland, raised fears that it had seeped beyond British borders; on Friday the Irish government dispatched army troops to the border to prevent animals from crossing the boundary. The threat of the plague bounding onto the Continent whipped other European...
...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...