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...time was sensitive indeed. The I.R.A. and the British had just begun a secret exchange of messages aimed at opening peace talks to end the violence that has rent Northern Ireland for 25 years and left thousands dead. Despite outrage over these killings and others that followed, the contacts continued and the two sides edged toward full-scale negotiations. Then last week the Observer newspaper uncovered the secret talks...
Although many were delighted at the possibility of peace, others were shocked that Prime Minister John Major had been dealing with terrorists, especially leaders of the hard-line Ulster Protestants who reject any change in Northern Ireland's union with Britain. But the British government rode out the storm, arguing that it would have been remiss had it not responded to the I.R.A.'s overtures. Major insisted that he would only begin full negotiations after the I.R.A. had demonstrated that it had renounced terrorism permanently...
...will have to feel its way forward under a barrage of criticism from Ulster's Unionists, while the I.R.A. leadership fends off Republican extremists who consider any contact with the British a betrayal of the cause. Still, the revelations brought a sense of lift to the disheartening problems of Ireland. Most important, they disclosed that the I.R.A. may at last be willing to renounce violence and participate in further negotiations for a political resolution of the Ulster problem. They also demonstrated that the British, under Major's leadership, are willing to go beyond a peacekeeping role in Ulster...
...also contribute a good share. The illegals cross the porous border from Baja California, heading north to Los Angeles, where the wages are relatively high and the questions relatively few. They come from China, in coffin ships like the Golden Venture, in quest of asylum. They fly in from Ireland, willing to pull a few pints or pound a few nails in exchange for some greenbacks and, if they're lucky, a green card...
...York as a teenager. His father came originally to escape "the troubles." Colm, his mother and three siblings followed on visitor's visas and stayed on. "There was nothing there for us," he explains. Even so, it took him years to adjust to American cultural attitudes. "In Ireland everybody was afraid of the teacher, but here the kid would tell the teacher to F off. In Ireland you could get killed for that. First the teacher would kill you; then your dad would kill...