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Article: Irish army sits down at peace table with parties from Northern Ireland, Irish Republic. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 28, 1994
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DUBLIN _ The political wing of the Irish Republican Army ended its isolation Friday, sitting down at a peace table for the first time with non-violent political parties from Northern Ireland and the southern Irish Republic.
For the war-weary people of the island, this was the good news. The first session of the Peace and Reconciliation Forum, a training ground for imminent peace talks with the British, marked the entrance of Sinn Fein into high-stakes democratic politics _ an opportunity, said Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds, ``to replace mutual mistrust with constructive engagement.''
But the bad news surfaced quickly. Sinn Fein stands virtually alone in its ...