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Article: Adams leads Sinn Fein to embrace peace Activists vote to accept plan for government in Northern Ireland
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 11, 1998
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Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams led his IRA-allied party down the
road from revolution to reform Sunday, winning full backing for the
Northern Ireland peace accord against the odds of history.
In a fundamental reversal of decades-old policy, 331 out of 350
Sinn Fein activists voted to let their leaders participate in a new
compromise administration for Northern Ireland. The verdict followed
several hours of public debate at the Royal Dublin Society hall.
Sinn Fein's warm, if belated, embrace of the accord won't make
ratification of the deal any easier in May 22 public referendums.
Although Northern Ireland's main Protestant party, the Ulster
Unionists, approved it last month, many ...