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- <text id=91TT1542>
- <title>
- July 15, 1991: World Notes:Northern Ireland
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 15, 1991 Misleading Labels
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 45
- World Notes
- NORTHERN IRELAND
- Breakdown in Communications
- </hdr><body>
- <p> An 18-month effort to bring stability to Northern Ireland
- ended abruptly last week as talks among political leaders of the
- province's majority Protestant and minority Catholic communities
- collapsed. Negotiations had barely begun when the leaders fell
- out over procedural issues, such as where meetings would be held
- and who would act as chairman.
- </p>
- <p> The final straw came when the Protestant unionists vowed
- to walk out unless British Secretary of State for Northern
- Ireland Peter Brooke, who initiated the peace plan, canceled a
- July 16 meeting with the Irish Foreign Minister that is part of
- a 1985 accord giving Dublin a role in running Northern Ireland.
- The unionists oppose the Republic of Ireland's participation,
- and to avoid a showdown, Brooke called off the peace talks. As
- the province entered the volatile summer season of Protestant
- parades, there seemed little hope of salvaging Brooke's plan.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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