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...messengers go, Seanna Walsh certainly had street cred. The I.R.A. veteran had spent 21 years in prison for a series of offenses, including bombmaking, before he delivered a statement last week formally ending the organization's 36-year armed campaign to force Britain out of Northern Ireland. But skeptics noted that the group had made promises in the past without ever fully giving up violence--or the intimidation of witnesses to foil prosecutions. To address the doubters, Cabinet members in London and Dublin asked a watchdog agency to report next January on whether the I.R.A. is sticking...
That task will fall largely to Gerry Adams, who has led the group's political arm, Sinn Fein, as it evolved into Northern Ireland's largest nationalist party, aided by an I.R.A. cease-fire over most of the past decade. But Adams' effort will be difficult if splinter groups keep up the violence. "Nothing has changed," a member of a splinter group told TIME. "There is still a British presence that has to be removed." The I.R.A. will need to show the same determination to keep the peace as it once displayed to wage the war. --By Chris Thornton. With...
...illuminated parade provide shore-based entertainment, but the real stars of the show are the humpback whales that visit this protected coastline between now and November, turning Hervey Bay into the country's top whale-watching location. The cetaceans are on their yearly migration from the warm waters off northern Queensland (where their calves are born) to Antarctica - and Hervey Bay is a favored stopover. There are dawn, half-day and full-day whale-watching tours, with expert commentary and refreshments, offered by an armada of boats throughout the season. Humpbacks are surprisingly agile for their size (the average adult...
...terrorists said it was laying down its weapons. In a DVD video, I.R.A. veteran Seanna Walsh - who spent 21 years in prison for munitions offenses - stood before an Irish flag to read a statement formally ending the organization's 36-year armed campaign to force Britain out of Northern Ireland. By ordering its members to "dump arms" and adopt "exclusively peaceful means," the I.R.A. leadership signaled that their decades-long quest for Irish unity now rests in the hands of their political counterparts in Sinn Fein. The statement prompted a sudden surge forward in the peace process. The British army...
...firefighters; the opposition Popular Party claims the Socialist government didn't act quickly enough to bring the situation under control. Such political battles could intensify, since experts warn that drier conditions are here to stay. Earlier this year European Commission researchers reported that while precipitation has increased in northern Europe over the past 100 years, it has decreased by as much as 20% in parts of southern Europe and the Mediterranean countries. The combination of diminished supply and increased demand for water is already causing scraps over who gets what. Last week the environment ministers of Spain and Portugal agreed...