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...share power with Catholic parties in a new Northern Ireland assembly but also to work together with ministers and politicians from Dublin in new cross-border government bodies, which look suspiciously like the first steps toward a united Ireland. And politicians from Catholic nationalist and republican parties--including Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, which for years has been fighting for a united Ireland, proclaiming BRITS OUT NOW--signed a document that says that the political status of the province could be changed only by a majority vote of the people of the North. By anyone...
...paramilitaries did not abandon their long-range political goals. They only took the bold step of talking to the enemy. "I am a British citizen and will remain one," says Billy Hutchinson, leader and chief negotiator of the Progressive Unionists. "But I have the guts to face Sinn Fein." For his pains he has been called a traitor to unionism by the likes of Ian Paisley, the blunderbuss leader who has made a career of fanning hatred in the North of Ireland and who refused to participate in the talks. Paisley's recalcitrance left him with no role other than...
...million Americans who claim some Irish heritage, was strongly pro-Irish during his 1992 presidential campaign. He called for a special U.S. envoy then, but after winning he backed down under pressure from London. During his first year in office Clinton twice turned down visa requests by Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams to visit the U.S., because he refused to renounce violence as a means of ending British rule in the North. In January 1994, Adams applied again. He still refused to rule out violence, but, hoping that he would, and over the protests of the State Department, Clinton granted...
...Robinson be threatening disruptions? "One thing we will not do is give prior warning of our intentions," he replied. The White House says there has been no decision, but that Paisley's opposition will be "irrelevant" to what Clinton does. On the Catholic side, Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, has been holding a frantic series of meetings with the people who, as Adams says, "made the struggle, made the sacrifices and made the big commitment" -- in short, the I.R.A. So far, he is getting a mixed reaction, but he is confident that he will ultimately bring them along...
...While the Ulster Unionists, SDLP and Sinn Fein back the deal, minority Unionist parties and a splinter group of IRA gunmen have come out strongly against it. ?What we will not do... is engage in a process that ignores Britain?s centuries-old subjugation of the Irish nation,? read a statement from the Irish National Liberation Army. Which shows how difficult it will be to achieve the next goal on the road to peace -- the decommissioning of weapons...