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...RALLY WAS JUST WHAT GERRY Adams needed to lift his spirits. When he was introduced to 300 supporters crammed into a community center in West Belfast, they all jumped to their feet, cheering, clapping and whistling. Standing in front of a black wall with real negotiations now written on it in bold white letters, Adams launched into a long speech attacking the British for bad faith and pleading for renewed efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland. His mood was feisty and buoyant...
...phone endlessly to London, Dublin and Washington. He told anyone who would listen that he had not known in advance about the bomb or the I.R.A.'s decision to end the cease-fire. When journalists called him with the news, he was at home in Belfast eating fish and chips and resting after a trip to Washington and a few days spent going to and from Dublin. "It was a very traumatic evening," he told Time...
...I.R.A. argue that he was deliberately kept in the dark about the bombings so that he could claim ignorance and remain the acceptable face of Irish republicanism. For the moment, Adams is still an important--and perhaps indispensable--part of the peace process. Says Alex Attwood, a Belfast city councilor representing a ward in Roman Catholic West Belfast: "Adams and his first- line managers are the best and the brightest. People may not like them, but they need to be sustained if we are going to secure peace...
...have a Northern Ireland peace plan. British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Prime Minister John Bruton hope to meet next week to propose a new schedule for getting talks under way. Whether Sinn Fein and Adams will be included depends very much on the I.R.A. Some sources in Belfast were suggesting that the Docklands bombing was a one-off operation to express dissatisfaction with the slow pace of negotiations, but last week another I.R.A. bomb was discovered in the West End of London. It was much smaller than the Docklands device and was disarmed by security forces before...
...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...