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...running on that position. Another international panel is standing by to verify that the IRA has gone out of business, at which point unionists may begin to find it difficult to maintain it as the excuse for refusing to govern alongside their former enemies in the republican political movement Sinn Fein. But nobody is predicting any early breakthroughs...
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...
...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 began demolishing some of its remaining installations, and the I.R.A. said it was ready to dispose of all its weapons with witnesses from the Protestant and Catholic churches present. But can Northern Ireland's Troubles...
...attempt to depict the divisions in Northern Ireland by profiling two men at opposite ends of the political spectrum. They are Gregory Campbell, 32, a hard-line Protestant member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and Martin McGuinness, 35, also an elected deputy, who represents the predominantly Catholic Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A. Home Secretary Leon Brittan informed the BBC and its board of governors that it would be "contrary to the national interest" to show the program. "What is at issue is not the overall balance of the program," he wrote in a letter to Board Chairman...
FitzGerald and Thatcher faced a formidable array of opposition, ranging from the Irish Republican Army and its political wing, Sinn Fein, to many Protestant political leaders and militants in paramilitary organizations like the Ulster Defense Association. Neither government had any illusion that the agreement would have much impact right away. Explained an Irish official: "The real purpose of this exercise is to detach the northern [Catholic] community from the clutches of the I.R.A. We know that won't happen in six weeks. If it happens in a year, it will be a bloody miracle...