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Article: Sinn Fein struggles to defuse crisis over IRA's killing of Belfast man
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- March 5, 2005
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SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
03-05-2005
Dateline: DUBLIN, Ireland
Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army-linked party under fire over the IRA's killing of a Belfast man and other crimes, invited the victim's sisters into its party conference Saturday in an unprecedented bid to defuse their criticism.
With four sisters of the victim sitting in the front row, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said the killers of Robert McCartney _ among them, allegedly, seven suspended members of Sinn Fein and three expelled members of the outlawed IRA _ "should admit what they did in a court of law. That is the only decent thing for them to do."
In a typically mammoth speech to Sinn Fein's ...