[An Phoblacht/Republican News]

Thursday November 30, 1995

Christmas fudge

Having seen the communiqué from the summit announcement by John Major and John Bruton this Wednesday, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams declared the document a ``fudge'', but promised that republicans would address it positively.

Bitter words preceded deal
Twin-track troubleshooting
An air of unreality
United demand for talks
Countrywide demos say 'save the peace process'

Bitter battle but welcome result

THE NARROW YES VOTE last Friday was a welcome result which will finally allow people in second relationships the right to have those relationships recognised in the eyes of the law. Nobody is enthusiastic about the prospect of divorce, but marriage breakdown is a reality in Ireland which could no longer be ignored.

Still Paisley after all these years

To understand unionism, it is not enough to listen to OUP spokespersons calmly explaining why Articles Two and Three should be removed from the 1937 Constitution, or why there should be a Stormont Assembly. It is equally important to listen to the fundamentalist rant of the DUP. BY HILDA MAC THOMAS

Without consent - The basis of British rule

These months mark the 75th and 70th anniversaries of the Government of Ireland Act and the Boundary Commission. They partitioned Ireland and created the present constitutional settlement which is at the root of the conflict.

Twenty years of terror in East Timor

TWENTY YEARS ago next week on 6 December 1975, then US President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, concluded an official visit to Indonesia. Before departing, both pledged continued US ``security assistance'' for the virulently right-wing regime of General Suharto.

ANC confident after 18 months in power

FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW a senior member of the African National Congress opened West Belfast's winter school, An Eigse. AP/RN interviewed Linda Mti, elected MP in May 1994, Regional Chairperson of the ANC in the Eastern Cape and a national executive member of the ANC.

Coalition silent on strikes and redundancies

STRIKES, shut downs, redundancies, pay cuts, just another week of struggle for Irish workers. However, as the Clinton trip goes into overdrive the Dublin government Information Services (GIS) presents a differing view of the 26-County economy.

The peace dividend - smokescreen for British cuts?

IT IS COMMONPLACE to hear politicians assert that the peace process has provided us with the opportunity to create new economic structures in Ireland. The much vaunted `peace dividend', while generating endless debate, has failed to achieve any coherent form. BY EOIN O BROIN

POW's escape bid

NEWS of a republican prisoner's bid for freedom from Belfast's City Hospital on 15 November emerged this week following another `security' leak to Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party.

Four arrested under PTA

FOUR PEOPLE from Ardoyne, Belfast were stopped and arrested at Heathrow Airport, on Wednesday, 22 November. They were returning from a holiday in the United States.

Support for escapers in `Frisco

A UNITED STATES federal judge rejected a bid on 21 November by three H-Block escapers whose lawyers had argued that extradition proceedings should be dropped on the grounds that extradition statutes are unconstitutional.

Norbrook cuts overtime payments

SENATOR Edward Haughey is the Six Counties highest-paid executive. Last year he took home a cool £1.1 million, and his company Norbrook generated profits of £2 million sterling in 1994. Production and packaging workers in Norbrook are not so fortunate.

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