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...Clinton was not always assured that his visit would be a success. On Aug. 15 a violent republican splinter group calling itself the Real I.R.A. set off a powerful bomb in Omagh, a rural market town in the north. Twenty-eight people were killed and 220 injured in the single worst attack in the 30 years of fighting between Protestants and Catholics. The Real I.R.A. hoped the outrage caused by the bomb would be so great that the peace process would grind to a halt. Instead, the carnage inflicted by the bomb was so indiscriminate and terrible--Catholics and Protestants...
Think of what has happened in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Omagh, Northern Ireland, whenever you read of free-world democratic governments urging Israel to give up its security. Terrorism isn't just a remote Middle East phenomenon, and it will not fade away unless all governments understand the real danger and take appropriate action. AMNON KARIV Raanana, Israel...
...timing of President Clinton's Moscow summit was lousy, the reverse is true of his trip to Northern Ireland. Since the shaky summer of Drumcree and the shock and sorrow of the Omagh bombing, the province appears to be very much back on the track to peace. All but one of the renegade guerrilla groups have declared a cease-fire; Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has begun to renounce violence with all the passion of a would-be Nobel laureate; and just before Clinton touched down Thursday, news came through that Unionist leader and first minister David Trimble had agreed...
...that there's much Clinton can actually achieve in his whirlwind tour, beyond meeting folks at Omagh and Armagh and having a few welcome photo-ops with party leaders. If the violence has finally abated, it did so without the President's presence. Much more important is a long-term commitment to serious economic investment in the long-troubled province, which Clinton has already promised to give. Hence the first words he uttered in Belfast were ones that he would not have dared whisper in Russia: "What can I do to help...
...martyrs to honor. Some lawmakers think property-seizing is going too far, too. "We have had a succession of tough laws and tough laws and tough laws, and the horror has increased and increased and increased," said former government spokesman Kevin McNamara. Given that the splinter group responsible for Omagh has already stopped operating, and that the IRA is calling for it to disband, Britain and Ireland may have arrived too late to padlock the stable door...