Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Northern Ireland, where the painstaking peace process has been rocked by horrible killings in the past few months, hardly seems a promising destination for a politician searching for a bit of uplift and optimism. But last week after two fruitless days in Moscow, President Bill Clinton flew into Belfast to a warm welcome from cheering crowds and to celebrate what, despite bombings and burnings, still looks like a major foreign policy triumph for his Administration. "The people of Northern Ireland," said British Prime Minister Tony Blair in welcoming Clinton, "owe you a deep debt of gratitude. No President...
...President stepped off the plane, there was another sign of progress. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger dashed up to Clinton and handed him a newspaper that carried a banner headline announcing that David Trimble, the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and the First Minister of the new Northern Ireland Assembly, had agreed to hold a one-on-one meeting this week with Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army. "This is the headline we wanted to see," Berger told a beaming Clinton...
Think of what has happened in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Omagh, Northern Ireland, whenever you read of free-world democratic governments urging Israel to give up its security. Terrorism isn't just a remote Middle East phenomenon, and it will not fade away unless all governments understand the real danger and take appropriate action. AMNON KARIV Raanana, Israel...
...timing of President Clinton's Moscow summit was lousy, the reverse is true of his trip to Northern Ireland. Since the shaky summer of Drumcree and the shock and sorrow of the Omagh bombing, the province appears to be very much back on the track to peace. All but one of the renegade guerrilla groups have declared a cease-fire; Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has begun to renounce violence with all the passion of a would-be Nobel laureate; and just before Clinton touched down Thursday, news came through that Unionist leader and first minister David Trimble had agreed...
...British government has backed away from an earlier, highly controversial suggestion -- to allow conviction on the word of a senior police officer. Given the highly partisan reputation of Northern Ireland's Royal Ulster Constabulary, such a system might have given Republicans a whole host of new martyrs to honor. Some lawmakers think property-seizing is going too far, too. "We have had a succession of tough laws and tough laws and tough laws, and the horror has increased and increased and increased," said former government spokesman Kevin McNamara. Given that the splinter group responsible for Omagh has already stopped operating...