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Article: SINN FEIN HEAD WALKS FINE LINE Adams set to begin US tour today, seeking to capitalize on IRA cease-fire

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September 24, 1994
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For someone who has earned a place in history, Gerry Adams remains a shadow to most people, certainly most Americans.

He is to some an apologist for terrorism. To others he is the man who at great personal risk has tried to turn around a battleship -- militant Irish nationalism -- that for centuries plied a single course: that the only way to get the British government to take you seriously was to kill somebody.

Adams arrives here today to kick off a nine-city, two-week tour of the United States, aimed at capitalizing on the Irish Republican Army's decision 24 days ago to call a cease-fire so the republican movement can devote all its energies to politics.

As president of Sinn Fein, the ...

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