Word: iras
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Martin Ferris, a leading negotiator for Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), discussed the recent stalemate in the Northern Ireland peace process at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) yesterday...
Ferris then described the history of the peace process in Northern Ireland, his involvement in both the IRA and Sinn Fein and the current state of the peace accord...
FACING EXTRADITION. IRA EINHORN, 58, '60s antiwar activist wanted for the 1977 murder of his girlfriend; in Bordeaux, France. An appeals court agreed to a longstanding request from the U.S. for extradition on condition that Einhorn not be subjected to the death penalty. His lawyers said they would appeal the ruling to a higher French court...
...Ira Einhorn, wearing blue jeans and a tunic made by Flodin, strolled into the Bordeaux courtroom Sept. 2 as if there had never been a body in the trunk or a pack of hounds on his trail or 16 years on the lam. He looked healthy, untroubled, his face ruddy. He played with a silver goatee and casually acknowledged Flodin, who smiled from the back of the courtroom, wearing a bright layered getup that looked as if it were stolen from the closet of Pippi Longstocking. The Unicorn had had a long time to write himself a new speech...
...Flodin held a healing party after Ira's arrest, inviting friends to come garden with her. Georges Raynaud, Einhorn's 86-year-old bridge partner, attended. He can't believe Einhorn did it, but his wife jokes with him; make sure your new partner isn't a murderer, she says. When not in crisis, Flodin, the dutiful Earth Mother, still demonstrates against a proposed nuclear-waste dump site nearby. Mayor Jack Jouaron, 68, loves it when she comes to city hall with her leaflets, flush with political passion. "For an old man like me, it was something to talk...