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...seven-month protest over conditions inside their Northern Irish prison, Sands had refused food and medical attention for 66 days. Although the grisly deaths led to heightened political tensions back in 1981, historians say the hunger strikes also helped to pave the way for the emergence of Sinn Fein as a major political force in Northern Ireland - and for the current peace process...
...electoral liability. The politicians who have won the most ink and plaudits as the peace process has lurched forward are not the responsible nice guys like Durkan, but the bomb throwers and rejectionists who have come in from the cold. In elections last summer, the S.D.L.P. slipped behind Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A., for the first time; since 1998 its vote share has dropped from first to fourth. Durkan deadpans that his party "has developed a powerful empathy with the prodigal son's brother...
...problem is the youth vote. For those who came of age after the I.R.A.'s cease-fire in 1994, repugnance for its campaign of terror is not acutely felt, and under Gerry Adams Sinn Fein has looked tough and vigorous while still advocating nonviolence. Durkan has the right demographics to get their attention. Can he get their votes in an election just 15 months away? He works constantly, energizes party activists, and is eager to highlight differences with Sinn Fein. But he needs to relax on TV so his wit shows instead of his sobriety, and to attack opponents with...
...TIME: Does it frustrate you to see Sinn Fein doing so well? Durkan:Republican leaders are now clearly basking as statesmen because of the way the peace process has worked. It reminds some of us of Groucho Marx?s line about knowing Doris Day before she was a virgin; it?s hard sometimes for a party that has always stood for nonviolence and was threatened and intimidated by people who are now coming forward in Sinn Fein. We knew we were taking an electoral risk in encouraging Sinn Fein into the political process. But it?s still the best...
...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...