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Article: Sinn Fein backs Ulster police
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- International Herald Tribune
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- January 30, 2007
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Eamon Quinn
International Herald Tribune
01-30-2007
Sinn Fein, the main Catholic party in Northern Ireland, has formally voted 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 Sunday, 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 will have historic ...