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...Sinn Fein translates from Gaelic as "Ourselves, Alone," and the IRA-aligned party finds itself living up to its name as Northern Ireland's peace process verges on collapse. Britain on Thursday gave the IRA a week in which to disarm or face the suspension of the power-sharing government and the return of direct rule from London. Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has warned that the IRA's refusal thus far to begin turning in weapons makes his party's presence in a coalition government with Sinn Fein untenable, and vowed to quit unless London suspended the institution...
...Despite pressure for a disarmament gesture from quarters as diverse as the White House and the majority Catholic party, the Social Democratic and Labor Party, Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams simply protested that his party has no control over IRA decisions, even though it's universally accepted that they're two wings of the same Republican movement - which is not to deny, of course, that the peace process has created serious divisions between moderates and hard-liners. The same division on the Unionist side may force Trimble's hand: "Trimble faced a mutiny in his own ranks over...
...Protestant Ulster Unionist Party agreed to drop their demand that the Irish Republican Army (IRA) begin disarming before they formed a government that includes Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing. The IRA has appointed a representative to meet with a disarmament commission...
...compromises on both sides are significant. For years, the Ulster Unionist Party would not consider any alternative to exclusive Protestant rule of Northern Ireland, nor would the IRA relent in its violent pursuit of a united Ireland. Now, the Protestant political parties have accepted Sinn Fein representatives into the new cabinet, as well as closer cooperation between their new government and that of the Republic of Ireland. The Catholic political parties have accepted that a unified Ireland may never become a reality...
...peace process are exemplified by the boycott of the cabinet's first meeting by two of its 12 ministers. These two, as members of the hardcore Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, have agreed to serve as ministers of the cabinet, but never want to be in the same room as Sinn Fein's two representative ministers...