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Nobody said it was going to be easy. The controversial Anglo-Irish accord, signed two weeks ago by Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and Garret FitzGerald, gave the Dublin government a limited voice in the affairs of the British province of Northern Ireland for the first time. Last week, though the agreement had received solid support in both the British and Irish parliaments, it was harshly attacked by extremists on both sides...
...pushed him, threw eggs and hurled insults. The Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of the militantly Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, denounced King as "a white-livered cur" and "a yellow-bellied coward." On Saturday, tens of thousands of Protestants converged on the city hall, where they set aflame the Irish tricolor and an effigy of Thatcher...
...other side of Ulster's bloody equation, the outlawed Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the murders of a policeman, a militiaman and a businessman, which were carried out in the seven days since the signing of the accord. WEST GERMANY New Life in the Fast Lane...
...summit ended in acrimony and mutual recrimination. Blair ruled out any change to the j5.2 billion annual rebate Britain receives from Brussels unless spending on agriculture, which accounts for more than 40% of the total E.U. budget, was revised - a proposal Chirac flatly rejected. Bertie Ahern, the Irish Prime Minister, called the budget debate "pathetic and embarrassing." Luxembourg's Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, who chaired the summit, said: "Europe is not in crisis. It is in a profound crisis...
...trailer park built to house refugees on the outskirts of Athlone, a sleepy midlands town, while awaiting a verdict on their asylum applications. Community worker Salome Mbugua Henry describes the scene as "kind of like an open prison system." The two women took vocational classes and made Irish friends. But after four years in bureaucratic limbo, their new lives evaporated in March, when they were deported with their 5-year-old sons. The women got so little warning that their four other children were left behind, as immigration officers escorted the women to Dublin Airport before the older ones walked...