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The word Wasp -- white Anglo-Saxon Protestant -- conjures a thumbnail history such as this, compounded of memories of textbooks and shreds of slander. As thumbnail histories go, it is not inaccurate, except that it leaves out the Wasp's greatest legacy: the American character. Whether we like it or not...
Like a revenger's tragedy, the violence in Northern Ireland never goes unanswered. On a Saturday afternoon two weeks ago, Thomas Begley, a 23-year- old I.R.A. member, walked into Frizzell's fish shop on the Shankill Road in Belfast carrying a Semtex bomb that exploded, probably prematurely. Nine Protestants...
London, which has ruled Ulster directly since 1974, would be delighted to be rid of the security problem caused by I.R.A. terrorism as well as the costs of peacekeeping and economic support in Northern Ireland, now running at an estimated $4.5 billion a year. But the political risks of cutting...
As a cover for their inaction, leaders in London and Dublin blame the impasse on bloody-minded political attitudes in the North. But they also have a point. Politicians in Ulster constantly plead for peace but have shown themselves incapable of making the kind of bold moves that broke the...
The latest cycle of killings is unlikely to change much except perhaps to increase the bitterness and intensify the violence. Last week Major and Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds took time off from an E.C. summit in Brussels to discuss the crisis privately, and agreed on the urgency of continuing...