Word: blaire
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reported by Lissa August, Tim Blair, Hannah Bloch, Mairi Ben Brahim, Jay Branegan, Charlotte Faltermayer, Meenakshi Ganguly, Ratu Kamlani, Wendy Steavenson, Alexandra Stiglmayer and Hiroko Tashiro
...Tony Blair and Labor were crowing Friday about "devolution": This referendum was another way to move government out of London. Yet the Scottish Nationalist Party was jubilant too, billing the vote as a major step towards independence. It has already been a remarkable compromise...
...private funeral that would have excluded the Princess' body from Royal palaces, and refused to fly the flag at half-staff over Buckingham Palace. Prince Charles fought in his former wife's corner by resisting his mother's wishes, and a heated battle ended in his favor after Tony Blair sent in mediators. The Royals claim "the whole story is rubbish," although Channel 4 ? a respected high-brow network in Britain ? says it has top-secret, top-level sources...
...they claim, "still have blood on their hands" ? although this can be solved with Dayton-style talks, where the parties negotiate from separate rooms. When will it end? No one knows for sure. Even without Sinn Fein, peace talks have already dragged on for over a year now. The Blair administration will have its work...
...never been quite this far down the road of peace before. Today's historic announcement ? that the British government would invite Sinn Fein to take part in Northern Ireland peace talks ? was almost entirely a result of another historic event, the Labor Party's recent election victory. Tony Blair's administration was able to take the six-week-old IRA ceasefire on trust, in a way that John Major couldn't have done without it looking like backpedaling...