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...British-Irish talks trembled after the Times of London published excerpts of a leaked draft of the ``framework document'' intended to serve as a guideline for peace negotiations among all parties in the Northern Ireland conflict. The Protestant Ulster politicans threatened to pull out of negotiations and possibly bring down Prime Minister Major's government. The draft proposes the establishment of joint institutions between Ireland and the North to work on common interests such as agriculture and tourism. This raised fears among the province's Protestant majority that such cross-border bodies might lead to the formation of a united...
LONDON: Deadly Joyride An appeal by a British soldier convicted of murder while on active duty in Northern Ireland has sparked a fierce debate. Four years ago, Private Lee Clegg and other paratroopers fired on a car that had failed to stop at a West Belfast checkpoint. The driver, Martin Peake, 17, and a passenger, Karen Reilly, 18--joyriders, rather than I.R.A. terrorists -- were killed. In 1993 a judge convicted Clegg of murder on the grounds that he fired the bullet that killed Reilly after the car had passed the checkpoint and the soldiers were no longer in danger...
...analytical talents, whether pulling together disparate material, as he did in covering the North Korean nuclear-inspection debacle, or thinking beyond immediate events, as when he outlined the implications of President Kim Il Sung's death. But he has reported on catastrophes too, from Afghanistan to Northern Ireland...
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