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STORMONT, Northern Ireland: Brinkmanship is the name of the game for the pro-British Ulster Unionists as the clock counts down to a deadline for all-party agreement on Northern Ireland, says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. Unionist leader David Trimble today dismissed as unacceptable compromise proposals by U.S. mediator Senator George Mitchell. ?The Unionists are hanging tough to try and secure more concessions,? says Hillenbrand. ?They prefer the status quo in Northern Ireland and want to minimize the changes that result from the peace process...
...going mad, Da is a drunk, and what's worse, 12-year-old Francie Brady (played by the remarkable Eamonn Owens) lives in a provincial town in Ireland in the early '60s. That means neighbors who are either dim or actively disapproving as the Bradys fall further and further into disarray. It also means that Francie's racing imagination is being fed with cultural junk food--cheap religious icons and TV purveying low-end sci-fi and images of the atomic Armageddon that everyone brooded on in those days...
STORMONT, Northern Ireland: Senator George Mitchell spent today talking to a roomful of people destined to be unhappy in each other's company, but increasingly convinced that they'd be even more unhappy if they left the room. Mitchell is detailing a proposed compromise between the demands of Northern Ireland's pro-British loyalists and pro-independence Republicans, which will form the basis of this week's final negotiations...
...first 48 hours in shock, while his wife plotted a way out. But this time, if the White House can be believed, Clinton was just plain mad. On Saturday night he and his Camp David houseguests watched The Boxer, a dense drama of personal and political pain in Northern Ireland. Then he got on the phone with the trashman, James Carville, who in 1992 ran the war room and commandeered the phrase "speed kills" to express the belief that when you get attacked, you should fire back immediately. Carville does not have much contact with Clinton from week to week...
BRUSSELS: The Euro is real, and it arrives in eight months and six days. The European Union took a giant leap forward Wednesday by officially recommending 11 nations to be included in the new currency next January: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. "We are at the end of an historic process," said EU president Jacques Santer...