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...impassioned speech last night at the Institute of Politics, Gerry Adams--the president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA)--called for immediate negotiations to unite the two halves of Ireland as an independent nation...
...London and Ireland need to join in an adventure, in a project, to move the situation now," he said. "The project must be very difficult, it will certainly be challenging, but there is no excuse for not talking...
...There should be no predetermined outcome. I believe the people of Ireland have the intelligence to govern ourselves," he said...
...British government announced that security in Northern Ireland would be slightly reduced in response to the Irish Republican Army's week-old cease- fire. I.R.A. political chief Gerry Adams shook hands with Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds on the steps of Dublin's Government Buildings, and the two leaders said they were "totally and absolutely committed to democratic and peaceful methods" of solving the province's political problems. A meeting between hard-line Protestant leader Ian Paisley and British Prime Minister John Major did not fare as well: Paisley was ejected from No. 10 Downing Street almost immediately after...
Protestant militants sent their contribution to the peace process in Ireland: a bomb on a Dublin-bound train from Belfast. Two women were injured when it partially exploded as the train stopped at its destination. The outlawed Ulster Volunteer Force claimed responsibility and in a statement warned that "Northern Ireland is still British and will not be coerced, forced or persuaded into a united Ireland." This is the third attack by Protestants since the cease-fire was announced a week ago. The I.R.A. has not avenged previous attacks, and the governments of Ireland and Great Britain appealed to the group...