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Oakley said he was most surprised at Trimble's admission that he barely spoke to Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams during the peace negotiations...
...requires paramilitaries to hand over or render useless their weapons by May. But the mood in the air, and on the graffitied walls of Belfast, suggests that the I.R.A.'s hard men still see the destruction of their arms as a humiliation, not a gesture of peace. And though Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has not abandoned the May deadline, the I.R.A. will need to destroy a few weapons before London will defrost the government...
Under the Good Friday agreement, power over Northern Ireland was given to a local cabinet including both unionists and nationalists. The establishment of this government was a major accomplishment, as few expected ever to see Gerry Adams, the leader of IRA-allied Sinn Fein, sitting at the same table with David Trimble, the leader of the Ulster Unionists...
...rules of the new governing body would make it a lot more difficult to put things back together if Trimble walked out, which is why London believes suspending the institutions is the best way of saving the deal," says TIME London bureau chief Jef McAllister. "But Sinn Fein, the government of the Republic of Ireland and the moderate party SDLP preferred by the majority of Northern Ireland's Catholic voters have warned that suspension could create a dangerous vacuum and deal a mortal blow to the peace process...
...reluctance to begin handing in weapons has been sharply criticized by the U.S. and Irish governments, as well as by the SDLP. "The IRA may have shot itself in the foot in terms of international support," says McAllister. "But there's clearly a split between the Sinn Fein leadership and the IRA hard men who've always been dubious about surrendering their weapons, even though those weapons are silent. Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness may have thought they could deliver at least a token IRA commitment by the end of January, but they clearly can't - and Trimble's ultimatum...