Word: iras
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...Redman '91. However, while Redman is known for his fire and exuberance alternating with tender touches, fellow tenor saxophonist Turner's sound is cooler and more brooding. That latter quality certainly shows up on this latest release, an album consisting of ballads that runs the gamut from George and Ira Gershwin to Hoagy Carmichael...
...Gerry Adams or David Trimble who has imperiled Northern Ireland's peace deal; it is their supporters. Britain has given the IRA until Friday to provide a "credible commitment" to disarm, failing which it will suspend the territory's historic joint assembly and executive. That would flash-freeze the peace process, which London considers preferable to allowing the total collapse that would result if Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble carries out his threat to resign by February 12 in the absence of any disarmament. The crisis reflects the mood of the hard-liners on both sides unconvinced by the compromises...
...Although the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 requires that disarmament be completed only by May 22 of this year, Trimble faced down an internal revolt last October by a narrow margin, and managed to stay in the process only by vowing to walk out if the IRA hadn't at least begun disarming by the end of January. Although Adams agreed in December to press for some movement on this front, he's been unable to sell accelerated disarmament to a movement that sees its weapons as the only reason Britain and the Unionists ever bothered to talk...
Sinn Fein translates from Gaelic as "Ourselves, Alone," and the IRA-aligned party finds itself living up to its name as Northern Ireland's peace process verges on collapse. Britain on Thursday gave the IRA a week in which to disarm or face the suspension of the power-sharing government and the return of direct rule from London. Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has warned that the IRA's refusal thus far to begin turning in weapons makes his party's presence in a coalition government with Sinn Fein untenable, and vowed to quit unless London suspended the institution...
...IRA's reluctance to begin handing in weapons has been sharply criticized by the U.S. and Irish governments, as well as by the SDLP. "The IRA may have shot itself in the foot in terms of international support," says McAllister. "But there's clearly a split between the Sinn Fein leadership and the IRA hard men who've always been dubious about surrendering their weapons, even though those weapons are silent. Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness may have thought they could deliver at least a token IRA commitment by the end of January, but they clearly can't - and Trimble...