Word: fein
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Explaining away violence is a Gerry Adams specialty. Whenever Irish Republican Army bombs dismember innocent victims, it is Adams, president of the I.R.A.'s political wing, Sinn Fein, who sits down before the microphones and attempts to transform atrocities into regrettable but necessary collateral damage in a just war against British oppression. The calm, reasonable, well- spoken Adams is good...
...main sticking point was the I.R.A. Would it now agree to lay down its guns and talk? The British government admitted it had been holding secret talks with I.R.A. and Sinn Fein representatives prior to the declaration. Transcripts of notes from the meetings suggested a new willingness to deal with long-festering differences. All that was needed to open full-scale peace talks was a statement from the I.R.A. denouncing violence -- which has not arrived...
...Heathrow mortar shells ruin those hopes? Not at all, says Adams. The shells came during a "stalemate" in the process, and the attack might "have an accelerating effect upon the British government." Sinn Fein and the I.R.A. still want what they call "clarifications" from Britain before joining any talks. Until that happens, says Adams, "every so often there will be something spectacular to remind the world" that the conflict continues to boil...
...Learned Fein, the columnist and activist who inspired us to organize this effort, was amazed at our success. "You raised 25 WHAT?" he asked incredulously over the phone. "From UNDERGRADUATES?...in TWO DAYS? Yes, we told him. We raised $25,000, from undergraduates, in two days...
...students have formed a temporary organization, which is currently unnamed, after a rally and a speech by writer and activist Leonard Fein which occured two weeks ago in Emerson Hall...