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...Today, we take for granted that Sein Fein will visit the [British] Prime Minister at 10 Downing St.," said the former Speaker of the Irish House. He went on to remind the audience that such was not always the case...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kennedy Smith Leads Irish Conflict Study | 10/7/1999 | See Source »

Earlier this week, writer and social justice activist Leonard Fein spoke at Harvard Hillel. He described the combined-effects munitions, more commonly known as cluster bombs, and their hundreds of brightly-colored bomblets that spread out over a target, and I was reminded of Fulghum's words. Yet with a cluster bomb, the child's idyll world is horribly transformed...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Red and Yellow Terror Pills | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

...last hurdle. Britain on Thursday formally put the peace process under review after David Trimble's Ulster Unionist Party refused to take its seats at the head of the new Northern Ireland Assembly created by the agreement. The Unionists rejected London's plan allowing the Republican Sinn Fein to take their seats in the assembly before their IRA allies had begun to disarm. Although the Good Friday plan required the IRA to disarm only by next May, hard-liners in Trimble's party had threatened to mutiny if the party entered the assembly before the IRA had begun turning over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland Peace Process Falls to Pieces | 7/15/1999 | See Source »

...government would simply implement the next stage of the peace process without waiting for republicans and loyalists to agree on the handover of IRA weapons. Loyalist politicians had sought to delay the creation of the Northern Ireland Assembly's executive, which would include two seats for the republican Sinn Fein, until the IRA begins decommissioning its weapons. By legislatively enabling the creation of the executive, London is effectively endorsing Sinn Fein's position that the surrender of the IRA weapons should follow the timetable agreed to last year, which requires that the handover be completed by next May. Neither Sinn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Forces a Northern Ireland Peace Plan | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...process. Last year the President invited both parties for talks at the White House to prod them into the deal, and he offered on Tuesday to intervene personally to save the agreement. Blair and Ahern have grounds to be optimistic, since the deadlock over whether members of the Sinn Fein party will be allowed to take their seats in a new Northern Ireland assembly before the IRA has turned over at least some of its guns appears to be a primarily symbolic issue. On the other hand, the fact that both sides have refused to budge on a who-goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irish Eyes Are Watching the Deadline Clock | 6/30/1999 | See Source »

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