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LONDON: Here's a novel way to fight a battle-hardened, semtex-wielding terrorist: Take his house away. Legislators in Britain and Ireland get their first look at sweeping new antiterrorism laws proposed by both country's governments Tuesday -- and if the advance leaks are to be believed, the power to seize property is about to become the teeth in the peace process. If the bills are passed in emergency session Wednesday and Thursday, the five suspects currently being held in connection with the Omagh bombing could face losing their homes and financial assets -- not to mention losing their right...
Just now Crowley, 45, is the Gershwin of designers. With his 1987 Broadway debut, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (all those elegant, suffocating drapes!), and 1994's Tony-winning Carousel (a small town in idyllic greens and blues), the kid from Cork, Ireland, showed the breadth and iridescence of his gifts. This year he had three new Broadway shows: Twelfth Night, the Oscar Wilde bio-play The Judas Kiss and Paul Simon's The Capeman. Amid the rubble of Capeman's reviews, Crowley earned praise for his expressionistic perspectives of uptown tenements and upstate jails. He is now at work on four...
KILLED. More than 20 BYSTANDERS; by a car bomb; in Omagh, Northern Ireland. The blast occurred last Saturday in a crowded shopping district on the 29th anniversary of British troop deployment in Northern Ireland. One of the worst acts of violence in the three-decade conflict, it took place 17 days before President Clinton's planned visit to the area...
BELFAST: They may call themselves the Real IRA, but is this a real cease-fire? The Republican splinter group responsible for Saturday's horrific bomb attack in Omagh, the bloodiest in Northern Ireland's recent history, announced a "suspension" of their campaign of violence Wednesday. The reason? Widespread public anger and an appeal from Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, according to the Real IRA's statement published in the Belfast Irish News. The real reason? If they hadn't said something, Ahern was threatening to crack down on the group's Dublin HQ. Besides, there's a more important public...
There are a lot of questions in Northern Ireland right now, and very little in the way of answers. Nobody knows much about the five men arrested in an early morning swoop in the town of Omagh Monday, except that they were wanted in connection with the most bloody terrorist attack in the territory's recent history. The perpetrators of Saturday's car-bomb attack that killed 28 people and wounded 220 are unknown, although police suspect a Republican splinter group that calls itself the Real IRA. But why would they plant a bomb in a mostly Catholic town...