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...Northern 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...
...that there is only one solution to the Northern Ireland problem [WORLD, Feb. 21]: Britain must cut the umbilical cord to that troublesome province. After all the suffering the people have gone through, the result of a nationwide referendum would overwhelmingly indicate that Britain should relinquish its relationship with Ulster for good. Northern Ireland's warring communities, when faced with the prospect of managing their own affairs, would have to lay down their arms and iron out their differences. The consequences of such a state of affairs could lead to lasting peace. So let Tony Blair work toward creating...
Trimble is the leader of the Ulster Unionist party and the Northern Ireland government. He received the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in organizing the Good Friday Agreement, the peace treaty between Irish nationalist and Unionist groups...
...head of the Ulster Unionist Party and leader of the Northern Irish government, Trimble received the 1998 Nobel Peace prize for his efforts in organizing the Good Friday Agreement, a peace treaty between Irish nationalist and Unionist forces...
Trimble blamed the onset of violence in Northern Ireland on the failure of Ulster Unionist leadership to unify the country in the 1960s...