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Barely two hours before Air Force One left Washington on Tuesday, Ireland's Prime Minister John Bruton arrived in London for an unexpected late-night news conference with Major. The two leaders announced a twin-track initiative to get the peace talks moving again. The hangup had been British insistence that the ira begin turning in its guns and explosives before Sinn Fein could join all-party talks aimed at creating a new governmental structure for the North. The ira had steadfastly refused...
...same time, London and Dublin will hold preliminary consultations to prepare for full, all-party talks by late February. This may seem like a fudge, and that is what some are calling it. "I see no purpose whatsoever in trying to pretend difficulties and difference do not exist," said Bruton. "They do exist." But, he added, the initiative was a mechanism aimed at "overcoming and transcending those difficulties...
...presided over the party's first aboveground political fund raiser in the U.S., taking in more than $20,000 at a reception in New York City. Adams was also invited to the White House by President Clinton for a St. Patrick's Day reception honoring Irish Prime Minister John Bruton. British Prime Minister John Major sent Clinton a letter of protest and asked him to pressure Adams to dismantle the I.R.A. arsenal...
President Clinton made a St. Patrick's Day appeal to Catholics and Protestants in British-controlled Northern Ireland, asking them to get rid of their weapons. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, visiting the White House along with Irish Prime Minister John Bruton tonight, insisted that the political wing of the Catholic Irish Republican Army lacks the authority to act on Clinton's request. Bruton disagreed. He told reporters that Adams "has tremendous influence" over the anti-British IRA. Bruton and Adams praised Clinton for opening the White House gates for Sinn Fein, a controversial move they hope will accelerate peace...
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, a prime mover in the new push for peace, said the Major-Bruton document represented progress because it ``embraces an all-Ireland character and deals with the general notion of one island.'' That was enough to satisfy Adams, who has been eager to get into negotiations. But Sinn Fein first has to prove its cease-fire is permanent; the I.R.A. will be expected to respond to Britain's demand that it start turning in the arms it has stashed away...