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Belfast leader demands IRA disarm promise for restored powers
In Belfast Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble urged the IRA to promise full disarmament before government powers are restored. Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams signaled readiness to discuss weapons decommissioning but provided few concrete details, while Britain resumed direct rule after stripping Cabinet authority.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Ulster Unionist Party
David Trimble
Britain
London
Trimble
Sinn Fein
Catholic West Belfast
Gerry Adams
Ulster Unionists
George Mitchell
IRA
John de Chastelain
de Chastelain
IRA Representa
Tive
Adams
Martin McGuinness
Republican Movement