Word: northerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recently signed Irish peace treaty has the potential to correct human rights abuses in Northern Ireland, Peace Watch Ireland activist Sean Cahill told an audience of about 15 at the Barker Center for the Humanities last night...
British and Irish leaders signed the treaty April 10, creating a new government for Northern Ireland which will involve greater coordination between Britain and the Republic of Ireland. Previously, Britain has assumed sole control over the province, which consists of six of the original nine counties of Ulster...
...super majority" provisions, which require both Catholic and Protestant politicians in a new bipartisan assembly to approve legislation, as the treaty's most important innovation. Both sides, he said, received part of what they wanted in the accord, which is intended to end the violence over British rule in Northern Ireland...
...Northern Ireland's conflict, Cahill said, is not fundamentally a religious controversy...
...journey to that address has been an amazing one. Born in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin and raised in a single room in Beijing by his father during the Cultural Revolution, Yan attended a school that was less than educational: in the afternoons, the children manufactured envelopes. In 1980, as China was starting to open to the outside world, Yan's grandfather reactivated old international links from before the 1949 communist revolution. (Granddad had founded Tianjin's branch of the Rotary Club in the 1920s.) Yan got a Rotary scholarship and was the first high school student in China...