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Article: IRA'S POLITICAL FACTION VOWS END TO VIOLENCE SINN FEIN WILL JOIN TALKS ON NORTHERN IRELAND.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- September 10, 1997
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Sinn Fein, the IRA ally that once embraced both the gun and the ballot box as agents of change, formally renounced violence yesterday and took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.
Five party leaders of Northern Ireland's pro-British Protestant majority stayed away, underlining their skepticism of Sinn Fein's sincerity and of a process they think will weaken Northern Ireland's union with Britain.
The chairman of the talks, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, welcomed Sinn Fein's arrival and urged the Protestants not to boycott the negotiations.
``This is the first time in the modern history of Northern Ireland that ...