Article: Sinn Fein Leader Calls Off New York Trip


AP Online
11-08-2005
Dateline: LONDON
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams on Monday called off a trip to New York after the United States refused to lift restrictions barring him from raising money there.

Adams, who has spent the past two decades guiding his IRA-allied party into Ireland's political mainstream, had been granted a visa allowing him to travel to the United States on Tuesday to receive a peace award.

But the State Department refused a request for him to speak at a $500-a-plate dinner benefiting his party's U.S. organization, Friends of Sinn Fein. Adams said he would speak at a similar dinner in Canada on Saturday.

Senior members of Sinn Fein have been prevented from raising funds in ...

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