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...finally forging the agreement was the intricate balancing of victories and defeats for both sides in the sectarian conflict. Protestant unionists, whose opposition to any change in the province's status as part of Britain once drove them to decorate Belfast city hall with a giant banner declaring ULSTER SAYS NO, agreed not only to share power with Catholic parties in a new Northern Ireland assembly but also to work together with ministers and politicians from Dublin in new cross-border government bodies, which look suspiciously like the first steps toward a united Ireland. And politicians from Catholic nationalist...
...Trimble, who warned that future participation by Unionists in the talks depended on the British and Irish governments' adopting "radically different measures," managed to drag Tony Blair up to Belfast for emergency consultations with the Unionists. Despite the rhetoric, however, Hillenbrand says the Unionists are not seriously threatening to quit the talks. Even then, the pursuit of happiness in Northern Ireland is on the back burner; the best Blair and Mitchell can hope for is to minimize unhappiness -- and keep the peace...
...BELFAST: Did the IRA end its cease-fire and not tell anyone? The Royal Ulster Constabulary, Northern Ireland?s police force, says yes. Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan has fingered the terrorist group in two recent murders in the province -- of a drug dealer and a Protestant militant. That could lead to the ejection of Sinn Fein, the IRA?s political wing, from ongoing peace talks -- and a return to the so-called troubles, now nearly 30 years...
After Treanor's murder, rumors flew around Belfast that one of the mainstream Protestant paramilitary groups may have provided assistance to the L.V.F. in pulling off its New Year's Eve hit. But leaders of the parties with close links to the Protestant gunmen claim the L.V.F. is acting on its own. As annoyed with Mowlam as they are, these leaders want to isolate the extremists...
...critic of mild demeanor (aren't we all?) sat in a screening room, sucking on a Ricola as he watched The Boxer, with Daniel Day-Lewis as Danny Flynn, a Belfast prize fighter unjustly jailed on a bombing rap, and Emily Watson as the girl he left behind. The critic dutifully tabulated each blunt plot point, each refried cliche ("I'm not a killer, Maggie, but this place makes me want to kill"). And yet, when Danny's nemesis did something monstrously rotten, the critic was so enraged by the dastardly act that he had to stop himself from spitting...