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...feature news junkies are sure to love is the time stamp that indicates when each story was posted to the Net. This has the effect of letting you watch the news age before your eyes. Minutes after Reuters published a story last week about Northern Irish police invading a Sinn Fein office in Belfast, the news appeared on Google, time-stamped "5 minutes...
...have they allowed themselves to get into yet another disastrous fight? This week Britain is set to suspend self-government, close the Stormont Assembly and rule directly from London, one more unhappy time. The immediate cause was a police crackdown on a ring of alleged spies run by Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. Police and government officials say republicans had vacuumed up more than a thousand sensitive documents, from conversations between Tony Blair and George W. Bush to personal details about security personnel. First Minister David Trimble, who negotiated the Belfast agreement for the unionists...
...Northern Ireland's peace process resembles a roller-coaster ride. But the lurch it took last week was so unexpected that many riders may be thrown off the track. On Friday, police showed up at Stormont, the seat of Ulster's government, and went straight to the offices of Sinn Fein, a key partner in the province's power-sharing arrangements. Detectives seized computer discs that, police said, might contain evidence that the Irish Republican Army spied on the British government during the peace process. The raid was the tail end of a major police operation in which documents were...
...political leadership "must take responsibility" for the "mishap" of civilian deaths. Diplomats noted that Palestinians had been close to a deal to end attacks on Israeli civilians. Now all bets are off. UNITED KINGDOM I.R.A. Warned The British Government warned the Irish Republican Army that its political wing Sinn Féin could be thrown out of power in Northern Ireland if paramilitary violence persists. The warning came as the government pledged a stricter approach to assessing cease-fire breaches. Prime Minister Tony Blair told M.P.s that particular weight would be given to any evidence that paramilitaries are engaged...
...members one step closer to permanent peace. As a British official observed, "the logic of an apology is that you won't do wrong again." Gerry Adams, a young and ruthless I.R.A. leader in Belfast when Donnelly's sister was killed, is driving the change. As the leader of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s thriving political wing, he told his party last year that their electoral success meant "physical force republicanism" was unnecessary. He even said the I.R.A. would "cease to be." Soon afterward, the I.R.A. made two symbolic disposals of weapons. Sinn Fein held a lavish ceremony...