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With peace breaking out all over Northern Ireland, British PM John Major apparently couldn't resist the overtures of the Irish Republican Army and agreed to start holding talks with the IRA's Sinn Fein. Earlier on, Major had insisted that the IRA clarify that their Aug. 31 cease-fire was indeed permanent -- a stance that was widely viewed as unnecessarily obstinate and taken to placate pro-British loyalists. When the IRA's chief antagonists, the Ulster Loyalists, followed up with a similar declaration on Oct. 13, "that gave Major the signal that he could go ahead," says TIME London...
...after his conversation with the Cambridge District Attorney, Bossert did in fact turn over the boy, a 17-year-old California native, to Harvard officers. The suspect was arrested by University police on the house masters' doorstep at #50 Holyoke Street shortly after midnight on Aug...
...Ireland laid down their arms in what may be the final act in setting up a durable peace in the region. The paramilitaries announced that they will "universally cease all operational hostilities," effective midnight tonight. They also went further than the I.R.A., which first declared a cease-fire on Aug. 31; the Protestant forces apologized for the hundreds of deaths they caused. The Irish government and the I.R.A. quickly embraced the overture...
...rides," Darryl says. "He was too small." On another day a neighbor, Ida Falls, took Yummy and 12 other kids to the local police station to see a film on crime. The cops asked her not to bring him back because he got into fights with other children. On Aug. 15 he was charged in another burglary. By Aug. 28 he would be firing the fatal bullets -- and it would be too late...
...That is not surprising. If Castro is a reluctant economic reformer, he is almost totally opposed to allowing any political opposition inside Cuba. In the past month, 30 human-rights activists have been imprisoned, according to Elizardo Sanchez, a Cuban dissident who heads a coalition of rights groups. Since Aug. 5, when Cubans shouted "Down with Castro!" on the Havana waterfront, Sanchez says, 300 people have been detained and sent to labor camps...