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From: mjass@magi.com (Michael Jass & Ann McEntee)
Subject: CNN REPORT ON NORTHERN IRELAND THURS, JULY 18, 1996
Date: 1996/07/19
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Hello All

Just picked this up from CNN.
FYI.

Check out this site for more information:
http://cnn.com/WORLD/9607/18/northern.ireland.update/
          
                     British, Irish officials
                     discussing Northern Ireland

                     July 18, 1996
                     Web posted at: 9:45 a.m. EDT (1345 GMT) 

                     LONDON (CNN) -- British and
                     Irish officials are meeting
                     Thursday to discuss last week's
                     violence in Northern Ireland,
                     which left one man dead and
                     scores injured. 

                     Britain's Northern Ireland
                     Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew
                     and Irish Foreign Minister Dick
                     Spring were expected to talk about the decision 
                     by police to first  
                     ban -- and then allow - - a Protestant march  
                     through a Catholic
                     area in Portadown, Northern Ireland. 

                     The Irish government and Northern Ireland 
                     Catholics accused
                     Britain of giving in to mob violence by  
                     Protestants who had
                     rioted when the march was banned. Britain said 
                     Police allowed the
                     march to avoid more violence. Catholics clashed 
                     with Police when
                     the march took place. 

                     northern Ireland's Catholics took their cases to
                     the British and Irish governments Wednesday. 

                     In Dublin, Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein,
                     the political wing of the Irish Republican Army,
                     met for the first time in two months with the 
                     Irish 
                     government. John Hume, leader of the Social
                     Democratic and Labor Party, traveled to
                     London to meet with British Prime Minister John 
                     Major.

                     After a two-hour meeting with Spring's senior 
                     advisers Adams
                     said the Irish government must not offer "a 
                      pretense of business as
                     usual'" when it meets the British. 

                     Hume echoed Adams words, saying he told Major 
                     about "the
                     deep anger among the people we represent about 
                      the terrible
                     events of the past week." 
                     In Belfast, Northern Ireland, multi-party
                     peace negotiations continued under the
                     chairmanship of former U.S. Sen. George
                     Mitchell. Sinn Fein is excluded from these
                     talks until IRA guerrillas restore the
                     cease-fire that was broken in February
                     with a series of bomb attacks in London. 

                     Mitchell urged participants to get down to
                     serious business after a month of haggling
                     over procedural issues, including his suitability

                     as Chairman. Some
                     Protestants oppose him, saying he wants to bring 
                     IRA supporters
                     to the table. 

                     The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to 
                     this report.


                     Related stories:

                          Talks in three cities on ending crisis in 
                          Northern Ireland
                          July 17, 1996 
                          Northern Ireland talks resume despite 
                          protests July 16,,
                          1996 
                          Bomb rocks hopes for peace in N. Ireland - 
                          July 14, 1996
                          Protestant power on parade after Catholics 
                          riot July 12
                          1996 
                          Three policemen shot in Northern Ireland - 
                          July 11, 1996

Slainte!
Ann