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...British government announced that security in Northern Ireland would be slightly reduced in response to the Irish Republican Army's week-old cease- fire. I.R.A. political chief Gerry Adams shook hands with Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds on the steps of Dublin's Government Buildings, and the two leaders said they were "totally and absolutely committed to democratic and peaceful methods" of solving the province's political problems. A meeting between hard-line Protestant leader Ian Paisley and British Prime Minister John Major did not fare as well: Paisley was ejected from No. 10 Downing Street almost immediately after...
...that has plagued Northern Ireland and killed more than 3,000 people since 1969. Skeptics, remembering two previous cease- fires that unraveled in violence, noted that the I.R.A. has neither handed over its enormous cache of weapons nor specifically declared the cease-fire to be permanent. London and Dublin declared last December that the I.R.A.'s political wing, Sinn Fein, can join talks on Northern Ireland's future only when a permanent cease-fire has held for three months. Said British Prime Minister John Major last week: "The moment I am clear in my mind that this is a permanent...
Protestant militants sent their contribution to the peace process in Ireland: a bomb on a Dublin-bound train from Belfast. Two women were injured when it partially exploded as the train stopped at its destination. The outlawed Ulster Volunteer Force claimed responsibility and in a statement warned that "Northern Ireland is still British and will not be coerced, forced or persuaded into a united Ireland." This is the third attack by Protestants since the cease-fire was announced a week ago. The I.R.A. has not avenged previous attacks, and the governments of Ireland and Great Britain appealed to the group...
...movement toward peace in Northern Ireland seemed to proceed apace with an historic meeting between Dublin and the Irish Republican Army, but potential troubles from absent players festered elsewhere. In the Irish capital, Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds and Gerry Adams, head of the I.R.A.'s political wing, said they were "totally and absolutely committed to democratic and peaceful methods of resolving our political problems." But they stopped short of agreeing to the permanent I.R.A. cease-fire demanded by British P.M. John Major, who has opposed the all-Irish talks. Worse for him, Major got into a dust-up with...
...precondition laid down by London for a Sinn Fein presence at the table is a renunciation of violence by the I.R.A. Official sources in London, Dublin and Washington believe that the top republican command, including Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, is ready to move away from the armed struggle for both personal and strategic reasons -- even if some of the local commanders, mostly from rural districts in the North, remain unconvinced that it is time to lay down arms. As evidence of the I.R.A.'s change of heart, sources familiar with the insular and suspicious community of Catholic nationalists...