Adams Warns Pact May ‘Bleed to Death’
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams warned that Northern Ireland’s peace accord “could bleed to death” if the stalemate over forming a new compromise government is not quickly overcome. Moderate Roman Catholic politicians joined Adams’ party--the political arm of the Irish Republican Army--in blaming the impasse on Protestant leader David Trimble, who denied that any crisis lay ahead. Trimble accused Seamus Mallon’s moderate Catholic party of “presenting fresh demands” after British Prime Minister Tony Blair left the negotiations Thursday.
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