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Article: Missing IRA victims put Sinn Fein on the spot; Pauley on Politics.(Features)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- June 7, 1999
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IS SINN Fein locked on a collision course with nationalist voters? Will the waves of disgust sweeping the entire island over the IRA's handling of the "disappeared" be converted into a ballot-box backlash on Thursday?
Sinn Fein has been on an electoral roll at council, Westminster and Assembly elections and, for the first time, it appeared to have high hopes of snatching a seat from the Ulster Unionists, regarded in some quarters as vulnerable and weakened by dissension over Jim Nicholson's candidacy.
The "disappeared" controversy has thrown a spanner into ...