Word: friday
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begin by stating flat-out that Belfast is not a war-torn, urban wasteland. There are bistros and McDonalds, university students and yuppies, beautiful buildings and historic landmarks. One can hear British, Irish, Australian, French, German and American accents just by wandering down University Road any Friday evening. And since the entire city sits surrounded by a ring of hills, on misty days it is magical to look out over the horizon to see these amazingly green hills fading...
...Catholic living in a Protestant area can put you in actual physical danger). The segregated Old American South, simply put, has nothing on present-day Belfast, and although there is hope that things will change in the months and years to come (especially with the implementation of the Good Friday Peace Agreement), one can hardly wipe away several centuries of animosity in the space of a mere decade...
...politicians failed to make a peace deal, so Britain plans to force them into one -- even as the province braces itself for some ugly fireworks on July 4. After marathon talks failed to yield a breakthrough two days after passing their deadline, British prime minister Tony Blair announced Friday that his 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...
...desperate bid to save the Northern Ireland peace process. Republicans and loyalists meeting with Blair and Republic of Ireland prime minister Bertie Ahern Wednesday in Belfast have until midnight to find their way around an impasse over disarmament. If they fail, so does last year?s Good Friday Agreement, to which both sides in the decades-old conflict signed on. That might bring President Clinton back in on the peace 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...
...going to sort it out." At issue is the Unionist refusal to allow Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, into the territory?s new local government structure until the IRA begins turning over its weapons. Sinn Fein insists that the Unionists are reinterpreting the Good Friday Agreement signed last year, and Blair hopes to forge a compromise...