Blair Agrees to Talks on Northern Ireland
From Times Wire Reports
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has agreed to hold crisis talks on the Northern Ireland peace process to head off sectarian tensions and fears of new Irish Republican Army activity, officials said.
Sectarian tensions are high in Belfast, where Protestant and Roman Catholic mobs have clashed almost nightly in recent weeks.
Paramilitary groups are suspected of being behind the sectarian trouble that has seen civilians injured by gunfire and dozens of police officers wounded.
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