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...July 1, moderate unionist leader David Trimble resigned his post as first minister of the coalition home-rule government of Northern Ireland with the intention of forcing the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to begin disarming (as it had promised to do under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement). Now that the IRA has finally begun disarming, the hope is that Trimble can win today’s election, return to his job and continue leading the peace process...
There are 60 members of the Northern Ireland legislative assembly voting in today’s election, and only a simple majority is needed to put Trimble back in office. However, the DUP and even some members of Trimble’s own party (the Ulster Unionists Party or UUP) are objecting to pushing forward with the peace process because they think the IRA hasn’t put in enough effort to disarm. Unfortunately, the decommissioning (or disarming) process is all very secretive, and it is overseen by a neutral decommissioning body, led by General John de Chastelain...
...root of all the conflict is, of course, the voting public of Northern Ireland. Many people have their minds strongly set on being either Irish citizens or British citizens. The problem with the compromise is that as the government moves closer and closer to the middle, some people will inevitably feel alienated and gravitate more towards the extremes. With the IRA disarming, some hard-line republicans will switch their support to the Real IRA, but we can only hope that support for terrorism will be low following Sept...
...Wells Fargo ATMs. Illinois uses the technology to check for fraudulent multiple licenses among 8 million driver's-license holders, as does West Virginia. And IBM has installed a portal system, with a metal detector in the door, to prevent employees from stealing computer chips at a factory in Ireland...
...Palestinian militant, Atef Abayat, in a car-bomb explosion in Bethlehem was seen as part of the Israeli response to Ze?evi?s murder. Britain, Germany, France, Sweden, Australia and dozens of other countries as public health officials examined letters and packages containing suspicious powder, but found nothing. NORTHERN IRELAND Unionists Quit Protestant leaders resigned from the power-sharing government in Belfast, pushing Ulster's home rule closer to total collapse. Unionists said they would return only if the Irish Republican Army began disarming within a week. Although the I.R.A.'s political wing Sinn Fein hinted that progress was possible...