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Article: Breakthrough in Northern Ireland.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 13, 1985
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Breakthrough In Northern Ireland
THERE ARE complexities and then there are complexities. The arcane complexities of arms-control theology sermonized upon by Messrs. Reagan and Gorbachev in Geneva plae into elementary triviality by comparison with the political and religious complexities that divide Catholic and Protestant in Northern Ireland. The tortuous road to the superpower Summit in Geneva was a daisy-lined country thoroughfare compared to the 18 months of negotiations that culminated in the mid-November signing in Hillsborough, County Down, of a British-Irish agreement on cooperation in Northern Ireland. And since terrorism in Northern Ireland has claimed ...