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The World - News from Nov. 10, 1985

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The leader of the largest Roman Catholic party in Northern Ireland said he does not expect current Anglo-Irish negotiations to resolve the problems of the province. Speaking at the annual congress of his Social Democratic and Labor Party, John Hume was seeking to dampen expectations that the London-Dublin talks could produce an instant solution to 16 years of violence in the north and centuries of mistrust between Catholics and Protestants. Hume told the delegates that the talks would only be the start of a gradual healing process.

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