Word: northerner
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...willing to let the Republicans take that risk. On Monday, hundreds of protesters from 31 states brandished lunch trays and forced House Speaker Newt Gingrich to cancel an appearance before 2,500 Washington, D.C. executives. On an even more grass-roots level, nine-year-old Jennifer Halton of Northern California wrote a letter to her Congressional representative asking him to stop the federal cuts proposed in her school lunch program. And President Clinton has said that if the bill gets to him, he will veto...
Ongoing. "The Hall of the Northern American Indian...
...points binding no one, it was contentious enough to require four years of negotiation. London and Dublin each surrendered some bedrock from their historic stands. The Irish government will move to amend the articles in its constitution that claim jurisdiction over Ulster. Britain will rewrite its laws to permit Northern Ireland's voters to decide whether to remain with Britain or join the Republic of Ireland...
Protestants reacted especially bitterly to the part of the plan proposing institutional changes that would give the Irish Republic a role in the North. London said it would establish an elected 90-seat Northern Ireland Assembly to return limited home rule to Ulster for the first time since 1974. Members of the new Assembly would join with parliamentarians from the Irish Republic in a new cross-border body to coordinate issues that affect both, like fishing rights and agricultural and European Union policies, and to establish cooperation on tourism, transportation and energy. Unionists loathe the idea of granting Ireland even...
Declaring himself a staunch Unionist, Major insisted Northern Ireland could never merge with the republic ``in defiance of the will of the majority.'' For now, any referendum in the North would keep Ulster a part of Britain because Protestants make up about 60% of the population. But demographics are changing, and sometime within perhaps the next 30 years, Catholics could match or surpass Protestants number. The prospect may impel Unionists to consider the more flexible tactics the framework offers...