Word: northern
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...Londonderry, the second largest city in Northern Ireland, the citizens can't even agree on the name of the place they all live. The Catholics call it Derry, the original name before the English arrived to colonize the island. The Protestants insist on using the name with their preferred national capital stuck in front...
...even as just over 71% of the citizens of both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland voted to endorse a peace agreement that offers the best hope ever of ending the sectarian warfare in the North, Londonderry stands as the symbol of what went wrong in the British province, of what could go right in the wake of the positive vote, and of the difficulties ahead...
...shoes, set down for a while among black dope dealers in New Haven, Conn.; or Chicano gangbangers in the Yakima Valley of Washington State; or piney-woods country people in East Texas; or, finally, among forlornly vicious white junior Nazis, feral and bored to death, in Antelope Valley, in northern Los Angeles County...
...paramilitaries, are aboard." To the south, in the Irish Republic, the endorsement was even stronger. According to preliminary results, 95 percent have voted not only in favor of peace but in an extraordinary gesture enacted a constitutional amendment dropping the Republic's territorial claim on the six counties of Northern Ireland...
...next step: An election for the new Northern Ireland assembly on June 25 -- and the political wrangling for seats in that body has already begun. But today's vote means that power will no longer be won with bullets and bombs. "This vote says people want to try a new kind of politics," Hillenbrand says. "If I had said four years ago I'd be standing in a room with paramilitaries from all organizations, you'd have had me committed. There's no love between these people." What there is now is peace...