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...BRITAIN Members' Benefits British legislators voted to allow Sinn Fein's four Members of Parliament to claim expense payments and office space even though the republicans cannot take their seats in the House of Commons because they refuse to swear allegiance to the Queen. The Conservatives and Northern Ireland's unionists opposed the move, branding it an unwarranted concession to the I.R.A.'s political wing...
Ahern strongly praised the politicians involved in the process, including Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. He condemned the minority who recently tried to block the process...
Intense negotiations among Belfast, Dublin and London established that the elements of the summertime package could still save the Northern Ireland government from collapse, and the I.R.A. was finally persuaded to move. Sinn Fein also admitted some responsibility over the Colombian episode to answer the U.S. concerns...
Still, unionists want more arms disposed of, in order to prove that republicans will no longer use "the Armalite [rifle] and the ballot box" - war alongside politics - to pursue a united Ireland. Danny Morrison, the former Sinn Fein official who coined that phrase, believes that?s what the I.R.A. has just demonstrated. He accuses unionists of pushing too hard. "It was a courageous decision," he said, "but it?s also a huge gamble...
When Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams last week announced that decommissioning would happen, he made sure he had the public backing of notable I.R.A. leaders, including those who had risked death and jail to smuggle in the guns. But other republicans were angered by the I.R.A. reversal. A splinter group, the Continuity I.R.A., said it was "the ultimate act of betrayal." Adams conceded that some of his supporters were in tears. For them, the decommissioning of I.R.A. weapons came as a bitter pill in the often painful business of making peace. But there was no question that it pushed Northern...