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Article: Sinn Fein to rejoin Northern Ireland peace talks
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- March 22, 1998
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SHAWN POGATCHNIK Associated Press Writer
AP Online
03-22-1998
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) _ Sinn Fein will rejoin Northern Ireland's peace negotiations despite reservations about where the talks are headed, leaders of the IRA-allied party announced Saturday.
The Protestant leader of Northern Ireland's largest party, the Ulster Unionists, urged his own troubled supporters to stick with the negotiations. David Trimble said the talks would ensure Northern Ireland's continued union with Britain.
``Nerves of steel will be needed, but be confident,'' Trimble told about 700 members of the party's ruling body, the Ulster Unionist Council, which is divided over whether to participate in ...