Word: fein
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...Belfast a bomb has blown up a truck and the British army has sealed off much of the Catholic Falls Road area. So Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams arrived a bit late for his interview with TIME deputy managing editor John Stacks and London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. In discussion: the conditions for participation of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, in peace talks with the British...
...TIME: But it looks as if Sinn Fein is unwilling to renounce violence as a precondition for talking...
...Adams: We will talk now. Sinn Fein isn't the obstacle to talks. There needs to be dialogue without preconditions...
...TIME: Do you mean you and your party will not say "We renounce violence" at this weekend's Sinn Fein conference or anytime down the road...
...Mandela renouncing violence or Arafat genuflecting. It's a two-way process to bring about a demilitarization, to get those involved in armed action to stop. No sane person wants to be engaged in violence. But to put preconditions on people prematurely only makes the situation more problematic. Sinn Fein doesn't advocate violence. We don't advocate armed struggle. We have suffered from the violence. I want to see an unarmed strategy. I want to see a situation where the I.R.A. ceases activities. But the people who are looking down their guns at us are saying, well...