Word: unionistic
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...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...
...outbreak of violence between these two extremes of the sectarian struggle comes at an importune--and nervous--time. The Protestant unionist parties participating in the talks were already discontent with the way British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Marjorie Mowlam was handling the negotiations. Says M.P. Ken Maginnis, a senior member of the Ulster Unionist Party: "She has been giving concession after concession to Sinn Fein and the I.R.A., while frustrating our interests time and time again. This can only lead to tears." Maginnis demanded Mowlam's resignation, and some unionists in his party are threatening to pull...
...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...
...says Hillenbrand, although a bout of violent retaliation by both sides may lie ahead, ?the fighting by extremists at the fringes is not a hindrance to the peace process.? The recent attacks were carried out by anti-peace breakaway factions of the Republican and Unionist movements. ?The real question is whether the center can hold. The mainstream Republicans and Unionists have said they won?t be drawn into new violence. But the big question, since even before the recent killings, is whether the mainstream Unionists plan to stay at the talks...