The problem is that Trimble's backbenchers have stood up in this
assembly and consistently dug the hole deeper. It is they indeed who
need to move to make this survive. My assessment is - and I would
like to be wrong - the Provos cannot deliver, or Sinn Féin cannot
deliver the Provo weapons as has been demanded.
PUP chief negotiator David Ervine last week.
March 10 is the promised date and we expect that the British
government will meet its commitment. David Trimble cannot be allowed
to continuously enforce a veto on progress by his unrealistic
demands.
Sinn Féin's Alex Maskey. Irish News, Thursday 4 March.
I've been on delegations to RUC headquarters and been treated with
the utmost courtesy, given tea and biscuits and treated like a lady.
Then I've gone back to my own area and the policeman on the beat has
addressed me a Fenian slut.
Ardoyne on the RUC, women quoted in Mary Hollland's column in last
Thursday's Irish Times.
I was getting that many documents that I didn't know where to put
them.
Former UDA commander Bobby Philpot on information supplied to him by
the British crown forces on the programme Loyalists. Sunday 7 March.
I understand that many respectable people in New York have voiced
their opposition to this, including members of Congress. The RUC
should not be afforded a mantle of respectability or acceptability in
the US.
Alex Maskey on the boxing match between the New York police and the
RUC, which was thrown into doubt over a venue.
They are trying to force the IRA back to war in the misguided belief
that a military victory over that group is still possible.
Gerry Adams quoted in the New York-based Irish Voice.
But as far as we are concerned it dosen't matter if you are a leading
republican or not. Is it just a Catholic they are after?
Greencastle community workers after `dissident' loyalists issued
death threats against Catholic taxis in North Belfast. Irish News
Monday 8 March.
Reference to these groups as dissidents are designed to minimise the
threat they pose. It is common knowledge in the area that the UDA is
behind the orchestration of this campaign of intimidation.
Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly on the threats.
The idea that Lord Denning would be a role model for the modern
judiciary should be an appalling vista for everyone interested in
genuine human rights.
Spokeman for the Pat Finucane Centre on the Mirror's comments on
controversial British judge Denning, who died\ last week.
The context and the seriousness of the situation should not be
underestimated. If we reduce this to a game, the only ones who can
win are the rejectionists and those who don't want the agreement to
work.
Gerry Adams on the present inpasse. Irish News, Tuesday 9 March.
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