World IN BRIEF / NORTHERN IRELAND : Mitchell Trying to Salvage Peace Deal

George Mitchell, the former U.S. senator who led the successful push for a peace accord between Northern Ireland’s Protestants and Roman Catholics, arrived in Belfast, the provincial capital, to try to prevent the 17-month-old deal from collapsing. He said, however, that he had no intention of repeating his two-year stewardship of the negotiations that produced the Good Friday accord of 1998, adding that he was not prepared “to listen to the same arguments over and over again.” The British and Irish governments have asked Mitchell to try to broker a compromise that would allow the implementation of two key sections of the accord--the formation of a Protestant-Catholic government and the gradual disarmament of the Irish Republican Army.