WORLD IN BRIEF : BRITAIN : Mandela Suggestion on IRA Rejected
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Britain bluntly told South African black leader Nelson Mandela that it will not talk with Irish Republican Army guerrillas. Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said that he and Mandela discussed Mandela’s remarks Monday in Dublin that appeared to suggest that Britain should open negotiations with the IRA. Hurd said he expressed the “strong feelings of everyone here that the IRA are rejects of the political system.” Mandela has said that his Dublin remarks were misinterpreted.
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