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LONDON: Back in 1991, the IRA tried to shell 10 Downing Street. Now their political representative is using a more conventional method to gain access: Walking in the front door. Following their controversial handshake in Belfast two months ago, Tony Blair invited Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams to pop round the Prime Minister's residence Thursday for a cup of tea. Talk about historic ? it's the first time since the partition of Ireland 76 years ago that any member of that party has been near Downing Street. Without a mortar bomb in hand, that...
...BELFAST: As one cease-fire draws to a close in the Persian Gulf, could another be deteriorating in Northern Ireland? A power struggle within Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, has led to the resignation of 12 party members ? and more disconcertingly, two key members of the guerrilla organization appear to have defected to a breakaway movement known as Continuity...
...BELFAST: Bill Clinton did it on the Falls Road. Ted Kennedy does it all the time. And now Tony Blair has become the first ever British Prime Minister to do it, albeit behind closed doors...
...surprise last week when, just as historic talks began to try to dissolve the annealed hate that divides Northern Ireland, a 400-lb. bomb exploded in a largely Protestant town near Belfast. The hard men for whom terrorism has become a way of life were again trying to blow away the chance for peace. Nor was it a surprise that the Protestant politicians, who fear any change in their domination of the province, denounced the bombing as a Roman Catholic republican plot that made the talks impossible...
...teetered on the edge of what one of the senior members of Mitchell's team warned could have been "full-scale civil war." The I.R.A. cease-fire announced in July and the promise of peace talks in September again raised hopes. Says Christopher McGimpsey, a U.U.P. city councilor from Belfast: "We were hearing from the grass roots that we should enter talks...