Word: mowlam
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Even after last week's bombing, Trimble arrived for the talks. "Two years ago," said Marjorie ("Mo") Mowlam, the tough-talking, no-nonsense British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, "it would not have been possible for Trimble to move forward after a bomb like that. Now Unionism wants its leaders to be talking." And in the North, that is surprising progress...
BELFAST, Ireland: A leaked government memo which seems to show that Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam considered a Protestant march through a Catholic community "the least worst option" in avoiding conflict has delivered another setback for peace in Northern Ireland, reports TIME's Barry Hillenbrand. The memo, which gives the impression the British government ignored Catholic concerns by permitting the procession, is "a big topic of conversation in Belfast," he says. "The Catholics feel that this is a betrayal, that the British were carrying on negotiations for the show of it. What it has done is make the Catholics much...