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Last week the disconcerted leader dashed from meeting to meeting, explaining his position. He was on the 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...
...right. Less than two hours earlier, the Dublin newsroom of Ireland's main broadcast network had received a call. The person on the line gave a six-letter code word to identify himself as an I.R.A. operative. Then came the news. "The complete cessation of military operations will end at 6 p.m. this evening...
...Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, Germany (for a morale-building visit with American troops heading for Bosnia) and Spain (for a European Union meeting in Madrid). In London, Clinton assured both houses of Parliament that the U.S. would take the lead in carrying out the Bosnian peace plan. In Dublin, the President told the Irish parliament that ending the rivalry with Northern Ireland is part of "the tide of history." And in Germany he gave cheering U.S. soldiers permission to "respond immediately and with decisive force" if they were threatened with attack...
Under the new agreement, a panel headed by George Mitchell, the former majority leader of the U.S. Senate, will try to devise a plan to solve the problem of arms decommissioning. At the 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...
...huge voter turnout was expected in Ireland on a referendum to make divorce legal. TIME's Tony Connelly reports from Dublin: "This has been a passionate and bitter campaign, and the vote should be very, very close. The "No" campaign opposing the legalization of divorce has been gaining momentum in recent months. In May of this year, 72 percent polled were in favor of the referendum; but by last week, that number had been reduced to about 45 percent. The opposition has been based in part on the notion that people could be divorced against their will. In the cities...