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...single deal a leap of faith by people on both sides who have lost friends and relatives during the 30-year conflict and are understandably wary. But optimism is suddenly once again the order of the day now that the Ulster Unionist Party has voted to allow its enemy, Sinn Fein, into the region's nascent government without first making a least a token effort to disarm its military wing, the IRA. The condition, which has already rubbed Sinn Fein members the wrong way, is that the IRA will have to begin disarming by January 31. "We've jumped," Unionist...
...everyone in Trimble's party is comfortable with his leap. Concerned about letting Sinn Fein in without first seeing some automatic weapons made into plowshares, only 58 percent of the membership approved of the deal. One Ulster MOP called it "akin to turkeys voting for Christmas." Still, what's important isn't so much the weapons as it is the people using them, and this deal is an important and necessary leap of faith to put George Mitchell's historic peace deal back on track...
...players might be forgiven a little cockiness, having just returned from a tour in which they played on hallowed cricket grounds in London. They dropped in on peace talks in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and presented a cricket bat to Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams. ("It's a little like presenting a menorah to Saddam Hussein," Haber says.) And they took tea at Windsor Castle with Prince Edward. In a landmark moment of cultural exchange, they performed The Hip-Hop Cricket Rap for His Royal Highness. Says Hayes: "I don't think they'd ever seen or heard the likes...
...last hurdle. Britain on Thursday formally put the peace process under review after David Trimble's Ulster Unionist Party refused to take its seats at the head of the new Northern Ireland Assembly created by the agreement. The Unionists rejected London's plan allowing the Republican Sinn Fein to take their seats in the assembly before their IRA allies had begun to disarm. Although the Good Friday plan required the IRA to disarm only by next May, hard-liners in Trimble's party had threatened to mutiny if the party entered the assembly before the IRA had begun turning over...
...government would simply implement the next stage of the peace process without waiting for republicans and loyalists to agree on the handover of IRA weapons. Loyalist politicians had sought to delay the creation of the Northern Ireland Assembly's executive, which would include two seats for the republican Sinn Fein, until the IRA begins decommissioning its weapons. By legislatively enabling the creation of the executive, London is effectively endorsing Sinn Fein's position that the surrender of the IRA weapons should follow the timetable agreed to last year, which requires that the handover be completed by next May. Neither Sinn...