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...David Trimble, first minister of Northern Ireland, is another co-winner (1998) who must be wondering whether his accolade is really a curse. Bravely he has struggled to keep some forward momentum in the Ulster peace process, as much against hard-liners in his own Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) as against the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and its political front Sinn Fein. But the process is stuck in neutral, perhaps drifting backward. Last week, British prime minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern convened talks with Ulster politicians at Hillsborough Castle near Belfast. All the pomp and glitter...
Peace does not come easily in Northern Ireland. But a key vote among the Ulster Unionist party tomorrow will determine whether the region will take a leap closer toward that goal...
...Ireland's peace process rotate roles from episode to episode. Two months ago the IRA were the implacable hard men whose refusal to hand over weapons cast them as the villains in the breakdown of the process; now, they've donned the mantle of peacemaker and left the Ulster Unionists to choose between the bad guy role and some sort of short-term happy ending. Unionist leader David Trimble was battling Monday to persuade hard-liners on his own side to at least give serious attention to an IRA offer over the weekend to begin putting its weapons "completely...
...While the hard-liners in the Unionist camp want nothing short of total surrender of all IRA weapons, Britain has accepted the Republican offer and has urged the Unionist leadership to do the same. Adding to the pressure on the Unionists is London's plan to lift the suspension of the self-rule institutions two weeks from Monday. The Unionists' ruling council, in which Trimble's majority is somewhat tenuous when it comes to the peace process, will consider the IRA offer two days before that, creating yet another dramatic showdown in the two-year-old saga of the Good...
Currently, Unionist paramilitary groups have not decommissioned either, but Trimble said, they will turn in their arms in conjunction with...