Word: unionist
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...While the Ulster Unionists, SDLP and Sinn Fein back the deal, minority Unionist parties and a splinter group of IRA gunmen have come out strongly against it. ?What we will not do... is engage in a process that ignores Britain?s centuries-old subjugation of the Irish nation,? read a statement from the Irish National Liberation Army. Which shows how difficult it will be to achieve the next goal on the road to peace -- the decommissioning of weapons...
STORMONT, Northern Ireland: Brinkmanship is the name of the game for the pro-British Ulster Unionists as the clock counts down to a deadline for all-party agreement on Northern Ireland, says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. Unionist leader David Trimble today dismissed as unacceptable compromise proposals by U.S. mediator Senator George Mitchell. ?The Unionists are hanging tough to try and secure more concessions,? says Hillenbrand. ?They prefer the status quo in Northern Ireland and want to minimize the changes that result from the peace process...
...process may receive an important nudge forward next week at President Clinton?s St. Patrick?s Day bash: The guest list includes Adams, Ulster Unionist David Trimble, British Northern Ireland secretary Mo Mowlam and other parties to the talks. And no amount of diplomatic discussion can match the peacemaking potential of an after-dinner drink at a White House shindig...
...morning of the wedding, the linotyper, on his way home from work, paused amid the happy, shabby throngs. He answered a question, musingly: "I'm a good trade unionist, but the royal family means something. My father saw Victoria once, as close as you and me are now. Those two are getting married--they carry it on. I suppose it's having something steady in your life. And God knows there isn't much that's steady these days...
...statement claiming responsibility for the murder of Treanor, the L.V.F. warned, "This is not the end." And the hard men from the Irish National Liberation Army sprayed a Protestant home in rural Newtonbutler with gunfire on New Year's Day. But if the leaders of the mainstream republican and unionist parties continue to stay calm, then 1998 for Northern Ireland might just end up brighter than it began...