Word: northerner
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...Jose Tetla has an intimate relationship with its northern neighbor. Nearly 40% of town residents work in the U.S., many leaving families behind. They send back money for satellite-TV dishes, and each year the exiles return for the village fiesta, paying for food, music and shirts for the annual relay race. ``Without them it would be hard to have a fiesta,'' says Reveriano Garcia Garcia, 58, whose five children work as waiters in Queens. The New Yorkers contributed $1,000 for a new basketball court, now the village centerpiece...
...their proposals on the table in Belfast last week as little more than a reasonable next step. No announcement of a done deal. No imposition of an agreement. No threats. Just an invitation to all the political groups involved in the vicious struggle between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland to sit down somewhere and talk. Even the name of the document was self-effacing: Frameworks for the Future: a shared understanding between the British and Irish governments to assist discussion and negotiations involving the Northern Ireland parties. ``Read it, study it, think about it,'' said Britain's John Major...
Similar opportunities have been spurned time and again by the absolutists on both sides in Northern Ireland. The day of the announcement, Ulster Unionist Party member David Trimble stomped off the set of a television interview when the reporter said Sinn Fein official Martin McGuinness was going to join the discussion from Belfast. The Protestant Unionists have been condemning the framework document ever since bits were leaked to Britain's Times newspaper five weeks ago, and last week they denounced it as a sellout. Even if Protestant leaders do not support the proposals, early poll results show that many citizens...
...proposal does not mean the centuries-old Irish problem is about to be solved. Sinn Fein nationalists, who welcomed the plan, still vow to see the Irish Republic absorb the six counties of Ulster into a united Ireland. The Protestant Unionists stand firm on the status quo: Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom...
...went into effect last September, terrorist bombings, shootings and the heavy presence of British military patrols have been vastly reduced. A great many citizens do not want to see a return to the violence that has killed more than 3,000 people since the British army was sent into Northern Ireland in 1969 to stop sectarian clashes. The international community has offered enticing financial incentives. Major and Bruton are betting that even if the Unionist politicians walk out on the process, they will not find thousands of Protestants lined up behind them shouting, as they have in the past, ``Ulster...