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...says Alan McBride, whose wife and father-in-law were killed by an I.R.A. bomb in 1993. "People judge them on what they do." To address the skepticism, leaders in London and Dublin asked a watchdog body to report next January on whether the I.R.A. is sticking to its vow. Many of the approximately 1,500 I.R.A. members could well enter the political struggle for a united Ireland by working for Sinn Fein. In the seven years since the Good Friday Agreement brought a fragile peace, Sinn Fein has grown while the I.R.A.'s influence waned. Led by Gerry Adams...
...last words transmitted from Challenger were in the valiant vow: "We are go at throttle up!" This meant the crew was about to apply maximum thrust, which turned out to be a fatal act. In the coming days, we will learn what the last words from Columbia were. Perhaps they too will reflect the valor and optimism shown by astronauts of all nations. It is time NASA and the congressional committees that supervise the agency demonstrated a tiny percentage of the bravery shown by the men and women who fly to space--by canceling the money-driven shuttle program...
...critical issue of the Strategic Defense Initiative, the document contains nothing more than a reaffirmation of a communiqué that Secretrary of State George Shultz signed with former Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in January, along with a vow to "accelerate the work" of the arms talks. Said one participant in those talks: "To accelerate implies that we were already moving. We weren't, and we still aren't. We're maneuvering for position around square...
...vow was short lived. In less than an hour Zhu reconsidered, according to the trade official, Long Yongtu, who told this story at the Institute for International Economics in Washington last month. It was clear to Zhu that Greenberg, a private U.S. citizen with deep knowledge of China, had been given extraordinary authority. So Zhu sent Long to the "Greenberg suite" of a Shanghai hotel partly owned by AIG, and the two began working out the final pieces of a historic trade pact that, incidentally, gave Greenberg what he wanted: the right to keep running wholly owned subsidiaries...
...teachers and politicians have wailed about No Child, which requires rigid reform and testing regimens in exchange for federal money for low-income students. Critics say the policy is underfunded, overbearing and unfair. Now they are taking action. And the law may not survive intact, despite the Administration's vow to fight...