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...General De Chastelain's announcement ought to mean the removal of a huge obstacle to a lasting settlement in Northern Ireland. But unionists aren't sure whether to believe him. Under their own slogan - "No guns, no government" - they have pulled out of successive power-sharing governments in Belfast on the grounds that the IRA's guns would always be an unspoken threat to democracy. The comparatively moderate Ulster Unionist Party, long dominant in Protestant politics, was pushed into a humiliating second place in elections last year by Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionists, who have focused...
...Belfast this week to help pave the way for a new round of talks, and ended up criticizing Unionist leaders who blamed anyone but the rioters for the unrest. The talks will probably take place anyway, but they may not be enough to revive Protestant interest in the settlement. And so, having spent more than five years bringing the IRA on board, mediators may now find themselves spending more years coaxing the unionists into a deal...
...will not rebuild on the beach. It is a graveyard now. I'm leaving as soon as I get my insurance settlement...
...leaving against our will, but we are not going out with heads bowed." TZION TZION-TAWIL, rabbi, after helping to lead a prayer service of settlers and soldiers in Netzarim, the last Jewish settlement to be evacuated in Gaza...
...arrival at the settlement (Warrant Officer) Murashige rounded up the Chinese ... Three males were taken a little way into the jungle where they were made to kneel on the ground and were then bayoneted in the back,'' the document says. "The remaining three or four women and a similar number of children were executed in the same manner...