DATE=9/13/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=IRELAND - VIOLENCE (S)
NUMBER=2-266471
BYLINE=LAURIE KASSMAN
DATELINE=LONDON
CONTENT=
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INTRO: A bomb exploded Wednesday outside the police
station in the Northern Ireland town of Armagh, a day
after a terrorist attack on an army base and a blast
outside a Belfast bar. Correspondent Laurie Kassman
reports from London that officials are warning
extremists they cannot disrupt the peace process.
TEXT: Police are investigating the Armagh blast and
other recent terrorist actions that they suspect are
the work of a renegade republican guerrilla group
opposed to the peace process.
Britain's Secretary for Northern Ireland Peter
Mandelson warns the extremists against trying to
disrupt the peace process.
///MANDELSON ACT///
We are going to bring this sort of activity to a halt
however long it takes or whatever it takes. Politics
now work in Northern Ireland and we are not going to
tolerate any action from any quarter to disrupt or
destabilize the peace process that is so strong and so
important for the future of Northern Ireland.
///END ACT///
The bomb attacks come at a time when feuding between
pro-British paramilitaries has also shaken the calm in
Belfast's Protestant neighborhoods. (Signed)
NEB/LMK/GE
13-Sep-2000 19:14 PM EDT (13-Sep-2000 2314 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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