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Similar opportunities have been spurned time and again by the absolutists on both sides in Northern Ireland. The day of the announcement, Ulster Unionist Party member David Trimble stomped off the set of a television interview when the reporter said Sinn Fein official Martin McGuinness was going to join the discussion from Belfast. The Protestant Unionists have been condemning the framework document ever since bits were leaked to Britain's Times newspaper five weeks ago, and last week they denounced it as a sellout. Even if Protestant leaders do not support the proposals, early poll results show that many citizens...
...proposal does not mean the centuries-old Irish problem is about to be solved. Sinn Fein nationalists, who welcomed the plan, still vow to see the Irish Republic absorb the six counties of Ulster into a united Ireland. The Protestant Unionists stand firm on the status quo: Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom...
...their 25-year conflict today, as the two sides met for the first time in a three-hour negotiating session. Though the positions of both parties are still far apart, today's historic meeting was described as calm and constructive and another date was set for December 19. Sinn Fein's delegation leader Martin McGuiness said, "We've made a beginning. It should have happened a long time ago." U.K. Prime Minister John Major, from a European summit in Germany, cautioned though that these sessions are only "talks about talks, but they do lead to getting Sinn Fein into...
British officials will have their first official pow-wow next week with their erstwhile mortal enemies -- the leaders of Sinn Fein, the British government announced today. The announcement, a major step in Ireland's peace process, comes three months after theIRA declared a cease fire. It represents a change of heart for the British, who have insisted that the IRA state clearly that it is permanently laying down its arms -- something Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has refused...
...during a robbery of a post office facility in Newry, 30 miles south of Belfast. The murder of a postal clerk was the first since the I.R.A. announced a cease-fire in September. It caused the Irish government to rescind plans for the early release of I.R.A. prisoners. Sinn Fein said the killing was tragic and wrong...