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Article: Ulster plan gets a boost after vote on policing Sinn Fein endorses cooperation with force, a longtime foe
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- International Herald Tribune
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- January 29, 2007
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Eamon Quinn
International Herald Tribune
01-29-2007
Sinn Fein, the main Catholic party in Northern Ireland, formally voted at a huge gathering Sunday to end decades of opposition to the police in the divided province, a move that Britain and Ireland see as a major step toward restoring a local government of Protestants and Catholics within weeks. At a convention of more than 2,500 delegates and supporters here, the Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness won the support of an overwhelming majority of their party to endorse cooperating with a Protestant-dominated police force that had historically worked with British soldiers to maintain British rule in the province.The vote ...
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