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...will not bet on it -- even if the desire for peace is as strong as it has ever been. Weary of the war and its drain on the exchequer, the British government would welcome the chance to bring its troops home from Northern Ireland, where the struggle in Ulster is increasingly viewed with a sense of distance and disgust, could do without the headache the confrontation presents. The majority of people in Northern Ireland itself, be they Roman Catholic or Protestant, would simply like to get on with their lives. Even the I.R.A., it seems, is beginning to have second...
...groundwork has been done. A joint Anglo-Irish initiative agreed upon last December provides that Britain and the Republic of Ireland renounce any territorial claims to Ulster and that some sort of self-government be instituted in its six counties. Whether Ulster would eventually merge with the Republic or remain separate would be left to a popular vote in the North sometime in the future. Judging by opinion polls, the North would probably remain separate for some time to come...
Although many were delighted at the possibility of peace, others were shocked that Prime Minister John Major had been dealing with terrorists, especially leaders of the hard-line Ulster Protestants who reject any change in Northern Ireland's union with Britain. But the British government rode out the storm, arguing that it would have been remiss had it not responded to the I.R.A.'s overtures. Major insisted that he would only begin full negotiations after the I.R.A. had demonstrated that it had renounced terrorism permanently...
...Observer's scoop was clearly untimely. "Had the talks remained , secret," said a Downing Street aide, "much more progress could have been made." Now Major's government will have to feel its way forward under a barrage of criticism from Ulster's Unionists, while the I.R.A. leadership fends off Republican extremists who consider any contact with the British a betrayal of the cause. Still, the revelations brought a sense of lift to the disheartening problems of Ireland. Most important, they disclosed that the I.R.A. may at last be willing to renounce violence and participate in further negotiations for a political...
...unlikely to change much except perhaps to increase the bitterness and intensify the violence. Last week Major and Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds took time off from an E.C. summit in Brussels to discuss the crisis privately, and agreed on the urgency of continuing talks on the future of Ulster. They concurred that all parties, including the I.R.A. and Protestant terrorist groups, could take part in negotiations if they ceased their terror campaigns. Before the Shankill bombing, John Hume, M.P. from Ulster, and Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the I.R.A., had been discussing...