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...being made. At the same time, paramilitaries on the unionist side must be forced to disarm. The Ulster Freedom Fighters (who are connected with Paisely’s UDA) and Ulster Volunteer Force are smaller than the IRA but equally dangerous to the peace process. They, along with small nationalist paramilitary groups such as the Real IRA, must be forced to disband and disarm...
...violence. John Hume, the recently retired leader of the moderate Catholic Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), and Trimble won the Nobel Prize in 1998 for their work for the peace agreement. Since he founded the SDLP in 1969, Hume has been consistently opposed to violence while supporting the nationalist ideals. By following his example of considering this a political struggle and not a war, the people of Northern Ireland can learn to live like Americans—at peace with fellow citizens of all religions and political beliefs...
...Bombay) restaurants had stopped serving Coke and Pepsi, offering only traditional Indian yoghurt drinks as a means of protesting U.S. air strikes against Afghanistan. Many more of the city's Muslim restaurateurs are expected to join the boycott of U.S. products. So the enterprising paper asked the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party, which has previously organized similar boycotts to protest globalization's onslaught on Indian culture, whether the party would be joining. The boycott makes no sense, sniffed the party spokesmen. Of course it doesn't - Shiv Sena is part of a Hindu-nationalist led government supporting the U.S. campaign...
...Oscar-winning composer and lyricist whose collaboration with Ray Evans produced such hits as Silver Bells and Que Sera Sera; in Los Angeles. During their 64-year partnership the duo received seven Academy Award nominations and won three. DIED. CHANG HSUEH-LIANG, 100, onetime Chinese warlord who kidnapped Nationalist leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on Dec. 12, 1936 in Xi'an, forcing him into an alliance with the communists against the invading Japanese; in Honolulu. Chang spent nearly four decades under house arrest in Taiwan (see eulogy). DIED. ANNE RIDLER, 89, fluent and gifted poet, editor and translator; in Oxford...
...fail to publicly condemn bin Laden and his followers). At a crucial moment in the process, it becomes detrimental to the goals of the political movement to condone violent extremists, and then, usually, they are self-policed into oblivion. This week the legitimate political wing of the Northern Ireland nationalist movement (Sinn Fein), for instance, asked its violent extremists (the Provos) to disarm. In Spain, ETA has targeted Basque nationalist politicians who have joined the Spanish democratic process, knowing as their power grows, the ETA’s will diminish...