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Show DAILY HERALD AAf to Thursday, September 1 2004 PEDERSEN'S .5 I Pre-Seas- V!S on I I Snowboard & Ski Sale! PETER MORRBOay Associated Press Sim Fein President Gerry Adam, right, speaks to the media with party colleague Gerry Kelly in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Wednesday. The Sinn Fein delegation met with the British and Irish governments as local political leaders discussed the Irish peace process. Best prices of the season Last year's gear marked cheap! New '05 products on sale y Your Gear Now! Ten years after cease-fir-e, Lay-a-wa- SKATELONG BOARDS hurdle to peace in Northern Ireland 199" ON ON SALE retail $180.00 ratic Unionist Party won't even Fein, much d less cooperate with the BELFAST, Northern Ireland party, until the IRA fully Ten years after the Irish Redisarms and disbands. "Do people who have arms publican Army's momentous cease-firnegotiations resumed and hold on to them can they be in the government of NorthWednesday in hope of reviving adminisa Catholic-Protestaern Ireland? We say no," said min-- . tration, an elusive goal of Paisley, 78, an Northern Ireland's hard-fougister and lifelong opponent of peace process. compromise. But the Rev. Ian Paisley, the Paisley compared the IRA to Protestant firebrand whose asgarbage that must be thrown sent to power-sharinhas beaway. come essential, said his Democ- Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, who met separately with British and Irish government officials at the Stormont government complex in east Belfast where the talks were held, said Paisley's invective may reflect nerves." He recalled that Paisley's parboycotted the negotiations ty ' that produced the Good Friday peace accord of Shawn Pogatchnik SALE RALEIGH M-2- 0 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS headline "IT'S OVER," reflecting the hope that the secret organization responsible for 1,800 killings was finally going out of business. But a grueling peace process was just getting started. The I fell apart after 17 IRA cease-fir- e months, was restored in 1997, then helped inspire the Good Friday accord. Years of wran gling over the details of that complex deal have followed Power-sharinthe pact's central goal, has been repeatedly undermined by Protestant re-fusal to work with Sinn Fein ; while the IRA remains armed and organized. The IRA, in turn, never came dose to fulfilling another Good Friday goal full disarmament by ' aclministration A four-partled by moderates, not Sinn Fein or the Democratic Unionists, suffered repeated breakdowns over the IRA's refusal to dis-arm. It collapsed for good nearly two years ago over an IRA spy scandal. In 2003, two major negotiating efforts led by Bias and Ahern failed to revive that' talk directly to Sinn IRA-linke- retail $239.99 MOUMTAIM BIKE Aluminum Frame Front Suspension Shimano 21 speed shifter Great salection IRA still a e, nt IRTY MALL, Layaway and 90 days same as cash available. Layaway now and enjoy your gear OREM ht i,9"OUUU at these great prices! g, g mid-200- d 1998. '. This is a new experience for the DUP. When was the last time the DUP were in negotiation with anybody?" said Adams; a reputed veteran IRA commander. "Sinn Fein's up for doing a deal here, don't have any doubts about that," Adams added. Britain and Ireland hope this week's talks will prepare all sides for painful decisions at a Sept. 8 negotiating session to be overseen by the British and Irish prime ministers, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, at Leeds Castle east of Londoa Today's relatively peaceful Northern Ireland seems a world away from Sept. 1, 1994, when the British territory was waking up to its first day in a gener-atio- n without the threat of IRA bombings and shootings. The Belfast Telegraph newspaper that day blared a banner coalition. Then, in a November legislative election, voters dealt the process a shock by switching support from the moderates the Protestants of the Ulster Unionist Party, and the Catholics of the Social Democratic and Labour Party to the hard-liner- s. For the first time, any new administration requires backing from both Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionists, who together would receive the lion's share of cabinet posts. 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