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...Ulster Talks Stall NORTHERN IRELAND Elections to the devolved government were postponed until May 29 after the British and Irish Prime Ministers failed to get Unionists and Sinn Fein to agree on a system for policing breaches of the 1998 Good Friday accord. London suspended the power-sharing administration last October due to allegations of I.R.A. spying inside the British government. Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern postponed the elections, originally scheduled for May 1, to allow the parties more time to reach agreement. Going It Alone poland Prime Minister Leszek Miller defied calls by the opposition Civic Forum to hold...
...news junkies are sure to love is the time stamp that indicates when each story was posted to the Net. This has the effect of letting you watch the news age before your eyes. Minutes after Reuters published a story last week about Northern Irish police invading a Sinn Fein office in Belfast, the news appeared on Google, time-stamped "5 minutes...
...have they allowed themselves to get into yet another disastrous fight? This week Britain is set to suspend self-government, close the Stormont Assembly and rule directly from London, one more unhappy time. The immediate cause was a police crackdown on a ring of alleged spies run by Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. Police and government officials say republicans had vacuumed up more than a thousand sensitive documents, from conversations between Tony Blair and George W. Bush to personal details about security personnel. First Minister David Trimble, who negotiated the Belfast agreement for the unionists...
...Ireland's peace process resembles a roller-coaster ride. But the lurch it took last week was so unexpected that many riders may be thrown off the track. On Friday, police showed up at Stormont, the seat of Ulster's government, and went straight to the offices of Sinn Fein, a key partner in the province's power-sharing arrangements. Detectives seized computer discs that, police said, might contain evidence that the Irish Republican Army spied on the British government during the peace process. The raid was the tail end of a major police operation in which documents were seized...
...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...