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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...
...recent decision of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to withdraw from negotiations on disarmament may signal the untimely end of the 1998 Good Friday agreement. If so, one of the last, best hopes for an end to the troubles has come to naught...
Under the Good Friday agreement, power over Northern Ireland was given to a local cabinet including both unionists and nationalists. The establishment of this government was a major accomplishment, as few expected ever to see Gerry Adams, the leader of IRA-allied Sinn Fein, sitting at the same table with David Trimble, the leader of the Ulster Unionists...
...Good Friday agreement was contingent on the expectation that the IRA would be willing to begin disarming once the local government was in place in Northern Ireland. Indeed, on Nov. 17, 1999, the IRA said that it would be willing to discuss disarmament once a power-sharing government was created. That government was instituted on Dec. 1, ending 27 years of direct British rule...
...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...