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...excellence in areas like education, criminal justice and the environment should be higher here." What about her Parkinson's disease? As Reno, 63, travels the state in a red Ford pickup, her de facto campaign symbol, her illness hardly seems an issue. Says ex-N.O.W. president Patricia Ireland, another South Florida denizen urging Reno to run: "The same people knocking her are the ones who said Hillary Clinton couldn't sell herself outside New York City." She adds that if Democrats must win the north Florida vote that eluded Gore last year, they must also retain the massive black...
Images of Loyalist hatred and violence being directed at innocent Catholic four-year-olds in Belfast are far more powerful than any weapons the IRA has stashed away. Indeed, those images actually shift the Northern Ireland spotlight away from the IRA's refusal to begin destroying its weapons and onto the hate-filled extremists in the Protestant community. Four policemen were injured in the Ardoyne section of Belfast, Wednesday, by a blast from a bomb thrown at a group of Catholic children trying to reach the Holy Cross Girls' Primary School. It was the third day of trauma...
...Because of the proximity of its Catholic and Protestant residents, Ardoyne has been a flashpoint throughout a tense summer in which the Northern Ireland peace process ground to a halt. Protestant residents have vowed to stop the girls passing through their neighborhood in order to protest alleged Republican attacks. Police say extremist paramilitaries from both sides of the sectarian divide are active in the area. But the scale of the violence and hatred in Ardoyne has now prompted the leaders of most Loyalist parties to condemn the protestors...
...blame game over the stalled Northern Ireland peace process, the Ardoyne incident couldn't have come at a better time for the Sinn Fein. The most recent collapse of the institutions of Northern Ireland's self-government were widely blamed on the refusal of the IRA to begin decommissioning its weapons, and the recent capture by Colombian authorities of three alleged IRA men accused of training that country's leftist guerrillas had done little to improve the image of the Republican cause. The Ardoyne standoff, however, is a reminder of the communal hatreds that helped spawn today...
...Ardoyne has been a disaster for the Unionist politicians seeking international sympathy for their reluctance to press forward with the peace agreement while the IRA remains fully armed. And despite their limited scope, attacks on young children there threaten to plunge Northern Ireland back into a far deeper crisis as images of unmitigated hatred threaten to provoke inter-communal clashes at other flashpoints. And it's a crisis that will ultimately hurt the Loyalist cause. Indeed, there are signs of increasing impatience, or even distaste in Britain over the Loyalist's desire to keep Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom...