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Article: IRA SAYS NO TO DISARMAMENT PLAN IN NORTHERN IRELAND PEACE PACT.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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Byline: Associated Press
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- The Irish Republican Army refused to disarm Thursday as part of the Belfast peace accord, infuriating Protestant leaders who vowed to exclude its allied Sinn Fein party from any new Northern Ireland administration.
Hours later, a car bomb containing more than 600 pounds of explosives forced the evacuation of hundreds of people from shops in Lisburn, a mostly Protestant town southwest of Belfast.
The unclaimed bomb, which was safely defused, was the first such attack in Northern Ireland since early February, when opponents of the IRA's 1997 truce bombed two other predominantly Protestant ...