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...process in Northern Ireland "includes the acceptance of past mistakes and of the hurt and pain we have caused to others." The I.R.A.'s Unionist opponents complained that the apology did not go far enough. They suggested that it was intended to fend off British government sanctions against Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing. The British government welcomed the I.R.A.'s acknowledgment of the pain it had caused so many people. ITALY Anti-Semitism Vandals desecrated more than 30 Jewish graves in a nighttime rampage through a Rome cemetery. The vandals smashed headstones and tore off marble Star...
...step closer to permanent peace. As a British official observed, "the logic of an apology is that you won't do wrong again." Gerry Adams, a young and ruthless I.R.A. leader in Belfast when Donnelly's sister was killed, is driving the change. As the leader of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s thriving political wing, he told his party last year that their electoral success meant "physical force republicanism" was unnecessary. He even said the I.R.A. would "cease to be." Soon afterward, the I.R.A. made two symbolic disposals of weapons. Sinn Fein held a lavish ceremony in a Dublin hotel...
...since Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's recent incursions into the West Bank. Israeli helicopter gunships opened fire with machine guns on the nearby West Bank town of Jenin and tanks rolled into surrounding neighborhoods. Tanks also destroyed much of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's headquarters. NORTHERN IRELAND A Sinn Fein Mayor Elected in Belfast Against Loyalist protests, votes from nonsectarian Alliance Party councilors sealed the election win of Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey as lord mayor of Belfast - the first time the political wing of the I.R.A. has gained control of the city's council. The vote came after days...
...Belfast and elsewhere after it named the I.R.A. as part of a global terror network based in Colombia. The report, compiled after a nine-month investigation, accused the I.R.A. of training Colombian guerrillas alongside Iranians, Cubans and possibly Basque separatists. Refusing an invitation to appear before the Committee, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said he was satisfied with the I.R.A.'s denial that it had sent anyone to train rebel groups in Colombia. "Irish Republicans pose no threat to U.S. national-security interests in Colombia," he added...
Weiss is booked three months in advance--and a quarter of his patients are men. Baltimore financial manager Adam Fein, 44, was not looking for cosmetic surgery when he wandered in with a wart on his foot. But six treatments later, his acne scars and spider veins are 90% gone. "Hey, if it's there and it works," says Fein, "why not take advantage...