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...everyone understood my genuine openness and spontaneity toward people," he said. RETIRING. RONNIE FLANAGAN, 53, Northern Ireland's progressive chief of police who through the late '90s succeeded in changing the force's Protestant-biased image; in Belfast. Flanagan steps down amid controversy over his handling of the 1998 Omagh bombing...
...referred to the Aug. 1998 bombing in Omagh, which killed 29 people, and was conducted by the Real IRA, an IRA splinter group, which used IRA arms...
President Clinton inspected the bomb site in Omagh in Northern Ireland to comfort the people there. That's all well and good. Now will Clinton go to Sudan to comfort the people who lost relatives when U.S. cruise missiles destroyed the Shifa medicine factory? ERIK AMKOFF Stockholm...
...that some good can be salvaged from an evil act is a painful and recurring theme in Northern Ireland. Clinton touched on it when, out of the sight of cameras, he--along with the First Lady, Blair and his wife Cherie--visited the injured survivors of the blast in Omagh and then unveiled a plaque to the dead that said simply, "May their memories serve to foster peace and reconciliation...
Clinton's sober and, at times, tearful mood began to lift and approach the ebullient mode when he began shaking hands along a rope line in Omagh. The crowds, laughing and smiling, chanted, "We want Bill! We want Bill!" By the time he spoke in the ancient cathedral town of Armagh, the President was nearly back to his familiar, self-confident form. "Never underestimate the impact you can have on the world," Clinton said. "Thank you for the springtime of hope you have given the world. Thank you for reminding us of one of life's most important lessons--that...