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Article: STILL BULLET AND BALLOT; IRA has 'problems' as Sinn Fein signs up for peace talks.(News)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- September 12, 1997
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Hardline republicans were under growing pressure last night to justify signing up to the Mitchell principles on democracy and non-violence despite an IRA claim that it had ''problems'' with the peace code.
Both London and Dublin confessed to serious concern and unionists demanded Sinn Fein's ejection from the Stormont talks after an IRA spokesman cast doubts on the movement's commitment to the principles.
The IRA sparked a fierce political storm by insisting that decommissioning terrorist arms would amount to surrender and that nobody should expect the IRA ...