Word: northerner
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LONDON: Since England got knocked out of the World Cup, Britons have had to find other things to fret about. Northern Ireland has been obligingly explosive, of course -- and now that other old standby, the royal family, has offered up its requisite amount of gossip. Wednesday a spokeswoman for Prince Charles confirmed that Camilla Parker Bowles, the Prince's longtime mistress, has met Prince William for the first time. When Diana was alive, Camilla was kept very much in the shadows. Her sudden flurry of interest in Charles' son -- they reportedly got together three times over the last month...
...Abiola, once close to the military rulers, had bridged the gulf between the northern Hausa group (which dominates the military) and the Ibo and Yoruba groups that populate the wealthier southern regions. His loss leaves a void of candidates that could unite the fractious electorate of Africa's most populous nation in October's scheduled poll...
...BELFAST, Northern Ireland: The first major eruption in the Irish peace is proving difficult to douse. As Protestant rioting intensified Monday and Tuesday and as rubber bullets flew, the exhortations in Belfast were divided along familiar lines: Talk or fight. On the side of dialogue: David Trimble, leader of Northern Ireland's largest Protestant party, and British prime minister Tony Blair, who have been in close contact over how to defuse the situation...
...huge applause from the Orange Order crowd. Worried Trimble: "This situation has the capacity to destabilize... it could put at risk all the political progress we have achieved." Trimble has the will to make peace. He may now find out whether, as newly elected first minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly, he has the power to preserve...
...Despite the dispute over the march, the peace process this week went into high gear with former IRA fighters and Protestant paramilitaries trading quips and showing a remarkable degree of cooperation inside the new Northern Ireland assembly in spite of attempts by the Protestant opposition to destabalize it. In Northern Ireland, after all, politics have never been for the faint-hearted -- even if things do turn ugly in Portadown, the leaders committed to keeping the peace are not men easily spooked by the sight of blood...