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...telephone call from Al Gore to Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams ended a 20-year ban on official U.S. contacts with the political wing of the Irish Republican Army. It was the latest benefit of an IRA-declared cease-fire that went into effect September 1. Adams is currently on a whirlwind tour in the U.S. drumming up support for increased economic aid to Northern Ireland...
...impassioned speech last night at the Institute of Politics, Gerry Adams--the president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA)--called for immediate negotiations to unite the two halves of Ireland as an independent nation...
...last month, both Sinn Fein's offices and press center have been bombed, and the home of one of its counselors has also been under attack...
...people since 1969. Skeptics, remembering two previous cease- fires that unraveled in violence, noted that the I.R.A. has neither handed over its enormous cache of weapons nor specifically declared the cease-fire to be permanent. London and Dublin declared last December that the I.R.A.'s political wing, Sinn Fein, can join talks on Northern Ireland's future only when a permanent cease-fire has held for three months. Said British Prime Minister John Major last week: "The moment I am clear in my mind that this is a permanent end to violence, then the clock starts ticking...
...precondition laid down by London for a Sinn Fein presence at the table is a renunciation of violence by the I.R.A. Official sources in London, Dublin and Washington believe that the top republican command, including Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, is ready to move away from the armed struggle for both personal and strategic reasons -- even if some of the local commanders, mostly from rural districts in the North, remain unconvinced that it is time to lay down arms. As evidence of the I.R.A.'s change of heart, sources familiar with the insular and suspicious community of Catholic nationalists...