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...armed with a submachine gun, the other with a pistol, burst in and began firing indiscriminately at the customers. Treanor was hit in the head and died before he could greet the new year--a new year that starts off with an ill omen for peace in Northern Ireland...
...outbreak of violence between these two extremes of the sectarian struggle comes at an importune--and nervous--time. The Protestant unionist parties participating in the talks were already discontent with the way British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Marjorie Mowlam was handling the negotiations. Says M.P. Ken Maginnis, a senior member of the Ulster Unionist Party: "She has been giving concession after concession to Sinn Fein and the I.R.A., while frustrating our interests time and time again. This can only lead to tears." Maginnis demanded Mowlam's resignation, and some unionists in his party are threatening to pull...
...warned, "This is not the end." And the hard men from the Irish National Liberation Army sprayed a Protestant home in rural Newtonbutler with gunfire on New Year's Day. But if the leaders of the mainstream republican and unionist parties continue to stay calm, then 1998 for Northern Ireland might just end up brighter than it began...
...said and left unsaid at this funeral supper (congratulations to the widow are unspoken, of course), it's not the worst way to tell a story. One plot contrivance, however, seems awkward: as a young man, we're told, Billy fell loony in love with Eva, a visitor from Ireland, and after she went home, sent her passage money to return and marry him. For years he believed (as his best friend had told him, inventing the tale to protect the sanity of a fragile romantic) that she had died tragically on the eve of her departure. In fact...
...dead one, angered many in the British press who saw the visit as a legitimizing of the terrorists. The Belfast Telegraph harrumphed that "Dr. Mowlam may secure a short-term gain today, but the worry must be that she has demoted the cause of democracy in Northern Ireland." Meanwhile, the Independent praised the decision as a courageous gambit to keep the imperiled talks moving. At least...