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Speaking hours after the announcement Friday of the first Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Northern Ireland since 1976, Irish President Mary McAleese stressed the need to respect individual rights in an address before a packed ARCO Forum...
Earlier in the day, John Hume and David Trimble, the leaders of Northern Ireland's largest Roman Catholic and Protestant parties, respectively, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in the April 10 Northern Ireland Good Friday peace agreement...
Tucked inside the rows of uneven graves at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, it is easy to believe that the unofficial war in Northern Ireland between Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries continues. Two boys visit a lump of plastic flowers that passes as a fresh grave, the caretaker sweeps a traveled path past still shining headstones marked "IRA Volunteer" and the police surveillance camera hovers atop a thin gray tower across the Falls Road, watching shadowy forms dart among the monuments...
With the recent visit of President Clinton, the international community turned to Belfast, hoping that with the new Northern Ireland Assembly and the recent withdrawal of British troops, neighborhoods like the Catholic enclave surrounding Milltown would get a chance to catch their breath, a chance at peace. But as authorities in the Northern capital continue backpedaling when pressed about substantive police and housing reform, points of contention among the poor on both sides of the religious divide, the old conflicts continue...
...four of these men seem to get along well with one another. One only needs recall the happy shots of Clinton and Blair--in Ireland or London or Washington--or the smiley weekends Jospin and Schroder spent in the capital this summer to be convinced of their collective jocularity. In theory, it seems, the Western world has never as been as poised to act as a cohesive unit as it is today, at the close of the twentieth century...