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Article: Drawing the dotted line on weapons.(News)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- February 16, 2000
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IT GIVES me no pleasure in saying so, but I almost got it right during the run-up to the suspension of the Assembly.
Last week, I predicted that there would be a form of words from the Provisional IRA that would excite the Irish and British Governments as well as the Irish nationalists in Northern Ireland and that there would be pressure on David Trimble to cave in without any guns being handed over.
Two factors affected my prediction. First, the Provisionals left it too late and, secondly, the Secretary of State Peter ...