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Northern Ireland's churches are burning and the confrontation over a banned march is mounting, but these disconcerting developments are unlikey to wreck the Irish peace agreement. Even as Unionist and Republican leaders this week transformed their eternal battle from paramilitary in nature to parliamentary, Unionist extremists began torching Catholic churches and Republican militants responded in kind. The escalating violence followed a British-appointed commission's ruling forbidding Unionist militants from marching through a predominantly Catholic neighborhood in Portadown. The Unionists have vowed to defy the prohibition on the annual ritual, which has provoked rioting in each of the last...
...hand in their guns and semtex over the next two years. If they?re not going to do that, Protestant leaders smell a rat. ?You cannot say there?s a peace agreement if some party has a private army armed to the teeth and ready for action,? fumed Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble. Like it or not, a sustained cease-fire is the best the Irish can hope...
Polls indicate that more than 70% of voters support the Northern Ireland peace agreement, which must be approved in a May 22 referendum. The campaign, however, has just begun, and will clearly be nasty in the North. PETER ROBINSON, deputy leader of IAN PAISLEY'S Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, called the agreement "the mother of all treachery." He also told TIME that should PRESIDENT CLINTON visit the province to encourage support for the agreement, as has been proposed, "we will not give him a free hand to go around and do whatever he wants. He will be subject...
...stance for politics over terrorism within the I.R.A. and broadened his narrow views. The U.S. decision to take Adams seriously also made it harder for him to backtrack from diplomacy. After an I.R.A. cease-fire in 1994, Clinton and senior aides stepped up the frequency of meetings with Protestant Unionist leaders who had long considered Washington biased toward a united Ireland. When the President visited London, Dublin and Belfast in late 1995, he was hailed as a peacemaker...
Polls indicate that more than 70 percent of voters support the Northern Ireland peace agreement, which must be approved in a May 22 referendum. The campaign, however, has just begun, and will clearly be nasty in the North. Peter Robinson, deputy leader of Ian Paisley's Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, called the agreement "the mother of all treachery." He also told TIME that should President Clinton visit the province to encourage support for the agreement, as has been proposed, "we will not give him a free hand to go around and do whatever he wants. He will be subject...