Word: whitelaw
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Twomey said Whitelaw was a blatant liar in saying the provisionals broke the truce in an outbreak of shooting between them and British forces Sunday...
British officials said Whitelaw was studying the truce offer "with caution...
British officials have been studying a new truce offer from the Irish Republican Army. Seams Twomey, chief of the IRA's provisional wing in Belfast, said the provisionals would be willing to negotiate a new ceasefire with William Whitelaw, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, provided British forces promise to honor the truce...
Foreign Secretary William Whitelaw flew from London to Belfast yesterday to confer with security advisers on the crisis, and then flew back to make a statement to Parliament...
...I.R.A.'s truce offer means that Whitelaw has won valuable time for further political initiatives. As a next move, he would like to convene a meeting on Northern Ireland's future at which all quarreling factions would be represented. The I.R.A.'s cease-fire was obviously a bid for a voice at such a meeting, but nothing will infuriate Protestant loyalists more than the suggestion that they join what one of them last week called "a compact with the Queen's enemies." Whitelaw, therefore, is in the position of a referee who has managed at last...