Word: northerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...19th century. For one night only, they performed Hamlet's soliloquies and Tennyson's odes and transported the locals to a distant world. Last week, on a snowy New Hampshire evening, Pat Buchanan brought his one-man traveling show to the Victorian-era Opera House in the northern town of Littleton, a gemlike stage once graced by Mrs. Tom Thumb and Gorgeous George...
...they all jumped to their feet, cheering, clapping and whistling. Standing in front of a black wall with real negotiations now written on it in bold white letters, Adams launched into a long speech attacking the British for bad faith and pleading for renewed efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland. His mood was feisty and buoyant...
...simple as that. The I.R.A. agreed to the first cease-fire because Adams, with help from the Irish government and John Hume, the leader of Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labour Party, convinced the I.R.A. that political negotiations could achieve results. Just what the I.R.A. is thinking now and what influence Adams has is a puzzle. A senior White House official says, "The key question is, What is Adams' current relationship with the I.R.A.? No one knows that...
...bomb did jolt the parties out of their negotiating lethargy. In recent days Dublin and London have been working together closely--and vigorously--to sort out the torrent of complicated proposals for conferences, referendums, elections and talks that have come from all sides. Everyone seems to have a Northern Ireland peace plan. British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Prime Minister John Bruton hope to meet next week to propose a new schedule for getting talks under way. Whether Sinn Fein and Adams will be included depends very much on the I.R.A. Some sources in Belfast were suggesting that...
...more bombs do go off in Britain--or if sectarian killings resume in Northern Ireland--it will be very difficult to see the way forward to a permanent settlement. Yet the mood in Northern Ireland has clearly shifted toward peace. "There has been a sea change here," insists Denis Faul, a Catholic priest who was involved in ending the I.R.A. hunger strikes in 1981. "Three years ago we would have been slagging each other off over a bombing like the one in London. But now everyone is talking about maintaining the peace. The days of the paramilitaries are numbered...