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President Clinton began a five-day trip to England, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, Germany (for a morale-building visit with American troops heading for Bosnia) and Spain (for a European Union meeting in Madrid). In London, Clinton assured both houses of Parliament that the U.S. would take the lead in carrying out the Bosnian peace plan. In Dublin, the President told the Irish parliament that ending the rivalry with Northern Ireland is part of "the tide of history." And in Germany he gave cheering U.S. soldiers permission to "respond immediately and with decisive force" if they were threatened with...
...NORTHERN IRELAND INITIATIVE
...British and Irish governments issued a communique on Northern Ireland that could bring Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, to the negotiating table. But the i.r.a. has yet to relinquish some of its arms--an issue the British regard as crucial to a final peace accord. The signing came just before the son of Virginia Cassidy Blythe Clinton Kelley arrived in Northern Ireland--the first U.S. President ever to visit there. Greeted by enthusiastic crowds, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, Clinton clearly rejoiced in his role as designated peacemaker. One Irish-American politician accompanying the President...
...never seen anything like this before," said Paul Thomas. "Everybody's come together." Indeed they had, by the tens of thousands, Protestant and Catholic, Unionist and Republican. They carried babies, waved flags and cheered with abandon when Bill Clinton, the first American President ever to visit Northern Ireland, flipped the switch that lit up a 49-ft. white pine Christmas tree, flown in from Nashville, Tennessee, the sister city of Belfast...
Clinton has already taken a role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland, and that also explains the joy and gratitude expressed during his visit. In February 1994, he annoyed the British by granting a visa to Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, to visit the U.S. Among Irish nationalists, Clinton is considered a hero for that gesture alone. Clinton devoted himself to the Northern Ireland issue, and ultimately pressure from the Administration and from Irish Americans led Adams to persuade the ira to call a cease-fire. When it was declared...