Word: fein
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...Winners GERRY ADAMS Sinn Fein leader scores I.R.A. disarmament, $570,000 book deal. Publishers, however, balk at his proposed title: So We Bombed a Few Pubs NASA Long-suffering agency's Odyssey finally orbits Mars. Of course, Martians have been living among us and mutilating cattle for decades SADDAM HUSSEIN Iraqi dictator sends conciliatory e-mail to U.S. programmer, then gets embroiled in 'N Sync-rules, Backstreet-sucks chat-room debate Losers Elton John Pianist disparages the Dalai Lama's Afghanistan peace pleas. He goes on to disparage Galliano for abandoning the strapless, male ball gown JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Teen idol...
...NORTHERN IRELAND I.R.A. Disarms The Irish Republican Army rescued Northern Ireland?s battered peace process by announcing that it was putting some of its store of arms "beyond use." The move enabled Gerry Adams, leader of the I.R.A.?s political wing, Sinn Fein, to gloss over an admission that a Sinn Fein...
Protracted negotiations won political concessions but fell short of achieving the desired action. Republicans didn?t exactly suffer from the stalemate. While unionist support for the agreement began to collapse, Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.?s political wing, rapidly grew into the largest party for Catholic nationalists. Many in Northern Ireland believed decommissioning would never happen...
...involved in terrorism in America?s backyard. Weak denials from republicans were not accepted, and a few weeks later, as a Dublin official put it, "the world turned. Sept. 11 changed the game." After the Twin Towers fell, international distinctions between terrorists and freedom fighters became thinner. Sinn Fein?s U.S. fund raising, worth millions of dollars, came under threat from both individual donors and the U.S. government. The party?s friends on Capitol Hill got cold feet, and it closed its Washington office...
...Police Service for Northern Ireland (PSNR) should replace the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), an almost completely Protestant group that fought often with the IRA in the 1980s. Sinn Fein and other Catholic groups should take an active role in the supervision and implementation of the new police force, with the intention of making it nonsectarian and fair to all citizens of Northern Ireland...