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...This great myth of my application has been enjoyed over the cocktail circuit over the past years," says Malin, who is originally from Ireland. "I did apply, just past the deadline...
After 25 years of bloody conflict in Northern Ireland, Gerry Adams, leader of the I.R.A.'s political wing, offered a cease-fire
...Irish Republican Army announced a "complete cessation of military operations" in the civil war that has plagued Northern Ireland and killed more than 3,000 people since 1969. Skeptics, remembering two previous cease- fires that unraveled in violence, noted that the I.R.A. has neither handed over its enormous cache of weapons nor specifically declared the cease-fire to be permanent. London and Dublin declared last December that the I.R.A.'s political wing, Sinn Fein, can join talks on Northern Ireland's future only when a permanent cease-fire has held for three months. Said British Prime Minister John Major last...
...NORTHERN IRELAND: Farewell to Arms...
...result is this week's unusual tale of a troubled man's life and death. In any given issue of TIME, we include, of course, many stories that are driven by news headlines -- this week's account of the I.R.A. cease-fire in Northern Ireland, for example. Other stories, like our cover on the ominous resurgence of infectious diseases, reflect broader trends that we may have been tracking and developing for weeks. Occasionally we go back to a seemingly small event of months ago, briefly noted at the time, that strikes us as ripe with human drama and moral implications...