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Reagan raised the East-West issue at nearly every opportunity. In Dublin, he gave a new answer to a longstanding Soviet proposal that the superpowers sign a pledge not to use force to settle international disputes. In the past, the U.S. has dismissed the idea as meaningless, since the notion is already embodied in the Charter of the United Nations. Reagan told the Irish parliament that "if discussions on reaffirming the principle .. . will bring the Soviet Union to negotiate agreements which will give concrete new meaning to that principle, we will gladly enter into such discussions." The President also declared...
...talk to U.S. Olympic athletes in Colorado, he derided the "political machinations of . . . countries that are less than free," but did not specifically mention the Soviet pullout from the Games. In the major speech of his European tour, which he was to deliver before the Irish parliament in Dublin on Monday, Reagan planned to stress a "two-track" approach to Moscow: military strength combined with willingness to resume negotiations on arms control and other issues whenever the U.S.S.R. is ready for serious discussions...
Overhead, one of the 18th century frescoes on the ceiling of St. Patrick's Hall depicted King Henry II receiving the surrender of Irish chieftains in 1171. Beneath the figures, in the gilded hall of Dublin Castle, which was once the seat of British rule in Ireland, politicians from the North and South gathered last week to sign the long-awaited report of the New Ireland Forum, a promised blueprint for the future of the troubled land. Unfortunately, the forum's call for new solutions had already evoked a curt dismissal. Early that morning, Dublin residents awoke...
Instead, it suggested three alternative options. One would absorb Ulster into a "unitary state" independent of Britain and governed from Dublin, with constitutional guarantees safeguarding both Protestants and Catholics. Another envisioned a federal arrangement in which North and South would retain some autonomy, but would be ruled by a central, confederal government. Last, an agreement would be reached by which the North would be jointly administered by Dublin and London...
...majority Protestants. Led by the militant Rev. Ian Paisley, they have staunchly resisted any link with the predominantly Catholic republic, effectively foredooming the forum. Indeed, Paisley and his supporters traveled to the Irish capital under cover of darkness to demonstrate their contemptuous response to the report at the Dublin post office...