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...botched it. Now, after a few months of energetic military and diplomatic leadership on the part of the U.S., peace, or some version of it, was finally at hand. "If you look at the results, from Bosnia to Haiti," Clinton said recently, "from the Middle East to Northern Ireland, it proves once again that American leadership is indispensable and that without it our values, our interests and peace itself would be at risk." A Bosnia settlement would prove that Clinton can lead the world as well as he can lead Arkansas and would reaffirm America's global pre-eminence...
...huge voter turnout was expected in Ireland on a referendum to make divorce legal. TIME's Tony Connelly reports from Dublin: "This has been a passionate and bitter campaign, and the vote should be very, very close. The "No" campaign opposing the legalization of divorce has been gaining momentum in recent months. In May of this year, 72 percent polled were in favor of the referendum; but by last week, that number had been reduced to about 45 percent. The opposition has been based in part on the notion that people could be divorced against their will. In the cities...
Some semblance of PR still exists in New York City for the election of district school boards. It is also used in the Republic of Ireland to elect the National Parliament, according to Shepsle...
...years to come, when Ireland Eliesse Basinger-Baldwin grows up, her daddy will laugh when he tells the story of the day she was brought home from the hospital and he lost his temper with a free-lance videographer who was trying to capture the moment. But for now things are a little sour. Alan Zanger claims ALEC BALDWIN punched him in the face and knocked him over. Recounted Zanger: "He said, 'You got what you deserved.'" The police--not entirely trusting, perhaps, of this version of events--had Zanger put Baldwin under citizen's arrest before they would book...
...British created a martyr system in Ireland," Hill said, recalling an "intense period of horrific bombings carried out by individuals determined to remove the British from Ireland...