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Article: The American connection: Northern Ireland. (United Kingdom encourages United States' involvment in Britain's peace negotiations with Northern Ireland)(Britain)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 21, 1998
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THE White House this week hosted a St Patrick's day airlift of the entire Northern Ireland peace process. Politicians from north and south of the border and Mo Mowlam, Britain's secretary of state for Northern Ireland, all gathered to hear Bill Clinton make an eloquent plea for peace.
There was a time when the very idea of American involvement in the affairs of Northern Ireland caused near apoplexy in the British government, and among the province's unionists. When Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, was first given a visa to visit the United States in 1994, the American ambassador to London was called into 10 Downing Street for a dressing ...