Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Given what's going on in Ireland right now, itwould be a bit presumptuous to look down on MaryRobinson," said Undergraduate Council presidentBeth A. Stewart...
...that he would, and over the protests of the State Department, Clinton granted the visa, siding with his National Security Council advisers, among them Anglo-Irish specialist Nancy Soderberg, a longtime staff member of Senator Edward Kennedy's. Clinton had appointed Kennedy's sister, Jean Kennedy Smith, ambassador to Ireland...
...infuriated British government, led then by John Major, protested the visa, calling it a naive reward for an unrepentant terrorist. Last month, though, as Adams ate a St. Patrick's Day lunch at the British embassy in Washington with Trimble, Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam was saying that "the Americans and President Clinton have been of incalculable help all along the way." What prompted the turnaround...
...narrow views. The U.S. decision to take Adams seriously also made it harder for him to backtrack from diplomacy. After an I.R.A. cease-fire in 1994, Clinton and senior aides stepped up the frequency of meetings with Protestant Unionist leaders who had long considered Washington biased toward a united Ireland. When the President visited London, Dublin and Belfast in late 1995, he was hailed as a peacemaker...
Polls indicate that more than 70 percent of voters support the Northern Ireland peace agreement, which must be approved in a May 22 referendum. The campaign, however, has just begun, and will clearly be nasty in the North. Peter Robinson, deputy leader of Ian Paisley's Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, called the agreement "the mother of all treachery." He also told TIME that should President Clinton visit the province to encourage support for the agreement, as has been proposed, "we will not give him a free hand to go around and do whatever he wants. He will be subject...