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Article: Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein leader, takes push for peace to Detroit. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- September 26, 1994
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DETROIT _ Not everyone was touched by the symbolism Monday when Irish nationalist leader Gerry Adams hugged Rosa Parks in a downtown Detroit auditorium.
In town to push for peace in Northern Ireland, Adams had just presented Parks, the civil rights pioneer, with a sparkling Irish crystal glass bowl.
``This is a very personal mission and a very humbling one,'' said Adams, 45, the president of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army.
As a youth in Belfast, Adams said he and others opposing British rule were inspired by newscasts of the American civil rights struggle, which began when Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in ...
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