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10NEWS SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER 1993 THE OBSERVER. Ulster commits cost of peace in raw nerves (i 1 1 JjN jgL, 5 2S3 ammmmv fp SD QIo jfjggbn G23 bomb attack In FInchley Road, north London. Three bombs exploded only six minutes slightly Injured and dozens of shops and flats were damagedVPhotographt Sue Adler. Mary Holland and Eamonn Mallie find tension rising after last week's news of 'breakthrough' talks. 'OF COURSE people want peace, yearn for it.

But they are suspicious and fearful of the price they may be asked to pay The speaker was a Protestant minister whose small rural parish lies a few miles from, the Irish border. From his study, the ftenery across to the blue hills of Donegal is breathtaking. To many of his parishioners these hills are the 'safe haven' from which the Provisional IRA launches murderous attacks on the Protestant community. 'It may be he continued carefully, 'but I have to tell you of the deep sense of hurt which some members of my congregation who have lost sons or brothers feel when they see Gerry Adams talking about peace on Last week's statement that talks between Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams and Social and Democratic Labour Party leader John Hume represented a breakthrough has made little impression here. The minister outlined some of the realities of life in his little community.

Elderly people no longer shop in the local, mainly nationalist, town. Young people are forbidden by parents to use the new leisure centre because it would mean driving home through Catholic areas assumed to be sympathetic to the IRA. There is heightened tension when someone is told by the police that they have learnt of a 'threat' that the IRA may be planning an attack. When this happens, farmers and their families move out until the RUC tells them the danger has passed. Neighbours will take over the regular farm work.

Often, these neighbours are Catholics appalled by the IRA. No such good neighbourliness was on offer last week in Belfast's Shankill Road or in the desolate Protestant housing estates which form what one Unionist politician has called 'forgotten west Belfast'. Here, there is a sense of anger and suspicion that the Adams-Hume talks are just another stage of the process of selling out the Protestants to a united Ireland. 'People believe that the IRA are winning arid these talks confirm they say. 'The Sinn Fein leaders talk about peace and wanting to reach out to the Protestant people, but the IRA goes on bombing our Observer has confirmed that the debris after yesterday's IRA a pizza bar.

Six people were intense interest in the Hume-Adams talks, but there was anxiety as well as hope. People were worried about the compromises they might be asked to make in order to gain the peace for which they yearn. Mr Hume said recently that one of the main problems facing any nationalist politician in a Catholic ghetto area when he or she tries to talk about the IRA ending its terrorist campaign is the question: 'What did Jimmy die So many lives have been lost that people have to be convinced that lasting political gains are on offer. The position of Mr Hume and Air Adams has not been neipea oy me messiness oi iasi 1 i weeK aeveiuumeius. me impression was that nobody in Dublin, London or Belfast has been fully in control.

Instead, there has been the fury of Unionist politicians, an impression of bewilderment on the part of the Irish government and angry rejection from Sir Patrick Mayhew, the Northern Ireland Secretary. It was not meant to be like this. From the start of the Hume-Adams talks last April, the Irish Government has been fully briefed and this was passed on to British officials. The M1NS raucs naa more to do with lavine a. fl 1 J.

out broad principles that might make it possible for the IRA to end its terrorist campaign than hammering out the details of a deal between the Provisionals and the Government. The IRA bombing campaign in Northern Ireland and in Britain is set to continue for the time being as bombs in London and Belfast demonstrate. 'Everybody wants to go out on a high said one Republican. The sense of anticipation is palpable among Republicans. There is absolute trust in the leadership and particularly in 1 seasoned Republican said: 'The man has shown his capabilities.

He's not there filling The view in Republican circles is that Mr Adams cannot afford to misread the peace process. A misjudgment could set the whole Republican battle back years. He is determined to take the movement with him. As the momentum of the talks mounted, he insisted on calling an emergency meeting of the ruling body of Sinn Fein, the Ardchomhairle (Executive). Mr Adams further requested that every member of the 'Republican family' be kept abreast of developments.

Cumanns (local groups) throughout the island of Ireland virere briefed by Sinn Fein representatives on the decision to release the agreed-statement'. Senior Republicans say Mr Adams cannot tell the IRA to stop. He has already said in a number of interviews: 'I would seek a package which would allow me to make definitive proposals to the IRA. Whether I can do that, or whether the outcome would be acceptable to the IRA, is a matter for all of us to apply ourselves There is an unparalleled ten- sion in Republican 'Everybody is holding their breath. Everybody wants a break.

Nobody wante to make a said one Republican. 'There is abuzz. Some people are excited. The older members are. more; said another.

Mr Adams is trusted, but realism and accommodation, are- now' the on the i streets to take the celebrations. That 1 would not happen today. Mr Adams. One (buzz words 'ii-fvesi Rep EssQffl, Essra. IReffidl sDD sfaowfc to.

SanatogQii MULTI imsmmmmrngMM Warning shot: Workers clear after a telephone warning to Paramilitary groups such as the Ulster Defence Association are now able to command support, not only in areas like the Shankill, but also in the countryside, where Protestant communities have always thought of themselves as God-fearing and law-abiding. But a few hundred yards away in the Falls Road, on the other side of the peace line, people were not celebrating a victory either. In what Peter Brooke, the former Northern Ireland Secretary, described as 'the terrorist community' and Mr Adams prefers to call 'the Republican family' there was 1 it rl g)i I A FOR IN OTHER PAPERS Rip-off by the Ripper THANKS to a Government blunder, insane criminals locked in top-security hospitals now have the right to claim 11.95 per week disability allowance, says the Sunday Mirror. The Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, Moors murderer Ian Brady, and oiner criminals will allegedly be able to claim a total of millions of Dounds because of rules i i nvi included in tne iw ouvuu Security Contributions and Benefits Act. Eurocrats have not been as kind to Peter Davidson, a seafood trader in Essex.

The Sunday Telegraph says he will have to shell out a fortune in replacing the floor of his stall and varnishing the beams to meet EC regulations. The News of the World, in its 150th anniversary issue, says Health Secretary Virginia Bot-tomley has called for an inquiry after the paper revealed doctors were taking bribes from foreigners who wanted free NHS operations. Department for Education officials charged with improving pupils' literacy need a few lessons thernselvesaccdrding to the Independent on Sunday. Leaflets they produced to tell parents about education policy were so full of jargon that the Plain English Campaign had to be called into advise. i- The filni The Hunt for Red October was guilty of artistic licence, according to the Sunday Times.

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