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Article: Will the real Sinn Fein stand up? Uncertain peace prospects in Northern Ireland.
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- June 5, 1995
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As gestures go, it was modest: away from the cameras, behind closed doors in Room 6066 of the Sheraton-Washington Hotel last week. But when Patrick Mayhew, the British government official responsible for Northern Ireland, shook the hand of Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein--the political wing of the Irish Republican Army--it marked a hugely symbolic and potentially decisive moment in the tortuous search for peace in Ireland.
Still, despite the optimism at last week's conference to promote U.S. investment in Northern Ireland, prospects for a lasting peace there remain uncertain--in part because of doubt about Sinn Fein's willingness, and Adams's ability, to ...