Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...following day Adams said that Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's chief negotiator and a hard man, with an impeccable reputation with the top command of the I.R.A., would become the liaison between the I.R.A. and the international commission that is to arrange the disarming of Northern Ireland's paramilitary forces in accordance with terms of the Good Friday agreement. "In a few months' time," said Adams, "when the Assembly is up and running, people will say none of this would have been possible without the President's trip...
...hope that some good can be salvaged from an evil act is a painful and recurring theme in Northern Ireland. Clinton touched on it when, out of the sight of cameras, he--along with the First Lady, Blair and his wife Cherie--visited the injured survivors of the blast in Omagh and then unveiled a plaque to the dead that said simply, "May their memories serve to foster peace and reconciliation...
...impact you can have on the world," Clinton said. "Thank you for the springtime of hope you have given the world. Thank you for reminding us of one of life's most important lessons--that it is never too late for a new beginning." With American help, Northern Ireland has begun again. No doubt Clinton would like to have that chance...
...three weeks, Bill Clinton has been on a World Apology Tour. It started in the Map Room, moved out to sea to a friendly island off the People's Republic of Massachusetts, then went on to the Kremlin and ended in Ireland. Not once, though, did he hit a pure, clean high note. In Dublin he finally coughed out an "I am sorry," but grudgingly, as if he were repeating something for a dense and demanding bunch of whiners...
...barely mattered that Lieberman stopped short of doing what he had been rumored to be planning, which was to call for a censure of the President. He resisted pleas by White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles to hold his tongue until Clinton's return from Russia and Ireland, and thus underscored for White House advisers the urgency of launching their own battle plan to stanch the rapid deterioration of their defenses on the Hill...