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News from the Wire Services Re: Ireland & the Irish

RT 10/21/97 18:10 Ireland Proposes Some Limited Coastal Whaling
AP 10/21/97 17:09 Helms Wants IRA Called Terrorist
RT 10/21/97 17:02 Sen. Helms Says IRA Should Be On Terrorist List
PA 10/21/97 14:17 Tory Leader In Lords Attacks Government
RT 10/21/97 13:15 Politician Denies Irish Presidency Poll Slur

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	 Ireland Proposes Some Limited Coastal Whaling

RTw  10/21/97 18:10   

Copyright 1997 Reuters Ltd
 
 (Recasts with Irish proposal, reactions)
     By Christine Tierney

     MONACO, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Ireland proposed on Tuesday to lift a 
moratorium on commercial whaling and allow some coastal hunting to 
break a deadlock that threatens to tear apart the International 
Whaling Commission (IWC).

     "If the Commission doesn't take some action, we'll see it falling 
over in a few years," Irish Whaling Commissioner Michael Canny said.

     But most member governments of the IWC, holding its annual 
meeting in Monaco this week, responded coolly to the Irish plan, which 
had been revealed ahead of the meeting.

     Whaling would be banned on the high seas under the plan but 
permitted in a few coastal areas for local consumption and under 
strict controls. "Scientific whaling" -- killing whales for research 
as the Japanese do -- would be phased out.

     "Each government finds something in the package difficult and/or 
unacceptable," said Australian delegate David Kay.

     "Australian government policy is for a permanent ban on global 
commercial whaling. As it stands now, the plan's not acceptable to 
us," he said.

     The delegates from Britain and the United States said their 
governments opposed all commercial whaling. "It's totally 
unacceptable," Japanese delegate Kazuo Shima said. He said the ban on 
high seas whaling contravened the IWC's convention. "The purpose of 
the convention is the conservation and rational use of whale stocks," 
he said.

     The gulf between the whaling and anti-whaling camps in the IWC 
reflects a shift in the societies of many IWC countries, some of whom 
were formerly whale-hunting nations but now view the hunt as cruel and 
unnecessary.

     The whaling nations, notably Japan and Norway, say such 
sentiments have led the IWC far from its mandate to regulate hunting 
as long as stocks are not threatened.

     Both countries have registered objections to IWC resolutions and 
continue to hunt minke whales, a plentiful species estimated to number 
about 760,000 by the IWC.

     The rise in whale kills, which have tripled since the start of 
the decade to 1,043 in the past 12 months, is what drove Ireland to 
try to forge a compromise, Canny said.

     "It's not an easy thing for Ireland to put forward a proposal 
that allows commercial whaling, even in limited coastal areas," he 
said.

     "The countries in this commission are so far apart that the 
middle is painful for everybody," he said.

     Canny said he would talk to other delegates to gauge by the close 
of the meeting on Friday whether there was potential for an accord. If 
there was hope, he said Ireland would draft a plan and present it to 
the IWC meeting next year in Oman.

     "I welcomed the Irish proposal because I think something has to 
be done, but not for the reasons the Irish give," said marine 
biologist Sidney Holt, a long-time adviser to the IWC's scientific 
committee.

     "I don't think the Japanese or Norwegians will leave the IWC. 
They're very comfortable. They're whaling under legal objections, and 
they get away with it year after year," he told Reuters.

     "The IWC needs to re-establish control. We face an escalation of 
unregulated whaling. The Japanese are doing surveys in the open ocean 
on Bryde's whales," he said.

     Bryde's whales are sub-tropical whales weighing roughly 20-25 
tonnes, three times more than the relatively small minke.

     The Norwegians are gearing up for an annual harvest of 2,000 
minke a year in the North Atlantic -- four times their current catch, 
he said.

     "The whalers don't like the Irish plan and that's why I'm happy 
about it," he said.
  REUTERS

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			Helms Wants Ira Called Terrorist

APO  10/21/97 17:09   

Copyright 1997 The Associated Press
  
   WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Irish Republican Army and its political 
ally, Sinn Fein, should be designated terrorist organizations if the 
IRA breaks the current cease-fire in Northern Ireland, Sen. Jesse 
Helms said Tuesday.

   Expressing "disappointment" over the State Department's omission of 
the IRA from its list of foreign terrorist groups published Oct. 8, 
the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the 
organization had carried out 17 terrorist attacks in the past six 
years alone.

   On July 19, the IRA declared an unequivocal cease-fire in its 
campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland and unite the 
majority Protestant province with the overwhelming Roman Catholic 
Irish Republic to the south.

   The British government subsequently declared that the truce was 
genuine in word and deed, thus enabling Sinn Fein, a legal political 
party that supports the IRA, to rejoin multiparty peace talks 
involving the province's main political groups.

   In a letter to President Clinton, Helms, R-N.C., noted that the 
State Department still considers the British capital to be a "medium-
threat post" for U.S. diplomats.

   Helms, quoting a document issued by the U.S. Embassy in London, 
said that despite the IRA's cease-fire declaration, "the danger of 
sustaining collateral damage or injury by being in the vicinity of a 
bombing remains a risk."

   "I hope, Mr. President, that you agree that any organization that 
poses a threat to U.S. diplomats and citizens abroad is by definition 
a terrorist organization," Helms said.

   "I respectfully ask your assurance that if the IRA breaks the 
current cease-fire, you will designate (it) and its political wing, 
Sinn Fein, as foreign terrorist organizations ... and that you will 
then take every possible measure available under law to terminate 
their operations both in the United States and abroad," he said.

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		Sen. Helms Says IRA Should Be On Terrorist List

RTna 10/21/97 17:02   

Copyright 1997 Reuters Ltd
 
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The influential chairman of the Senate 
Foreign Relations Committee accused President Clinton Tuesday of 
undermining efforts to fight terrorism when he declined to designate 
the IRA as a terrorist organization.

     Sen. Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina, said the list of 
30 foreign terrorist organizations issued by the State Department on 
Oct. 9 should have included the Irish Republican Army and its 
political wing, Sinn Fein.

    "Failure to designate the IRA and Sinn Fein as such undercuts 
longstanding U.S. policy on terrorism. We must not coddle these 
people, no matter how strong their domestic political constituency," 
he said in a letter to Clinton.

     The United States said the IRA, which has waged a 28-year war 
against British rule in Northern Ireland, was not on the list because 
a cease-fire was in place. State Department spokesman Jamie Rubin said 
the IRA would be kept under review and could be added to the list 
later.

     Helms asked Clinton for assurance that if the IRA broke its 
current cease-fire, both it and Sinn Fein would be added to the list.

     Inclusion on the list of foreign terrorist organizations makes it 
illegal to provide funds or other material support to the groups and 
denies U.S. visas to their members or represenatives. It requires U.S. 
financial institutions to block funds under their control that belong 
to designated terrorist organizations.

     Helms said his concerns were raised because the same day the 
terrorist list was issued the U.S. embassy in London cabled the 
Foreign Relations Committee to notify that London was considered "a 
medium threat post."

     As described by the embassy in the cable, "This threat level 
stems from bombins in the U.K. (United Kingdom) attributed to the 
Provisional Irish Republican Army and the threat of terrorist acts by 
groups associated with various Middle Eastern causes."

     The cable said that despite the declaration of an IRA cease-fire, 
"the danger of sustaining collateral damage or injury by being in the 
vicinity of a bombing remains a risk."
  REUTERS

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		Tory Leader In Lords Attacks Government

PA   10/21/97 14:17   

Copyright 1997 PA News

  By Sarah Hall, Parliamentary Staff, PA News

    The Government was tonight accused of treating Parliament with 
"contempt" by the Leader of the Opposition in the Lords for failing to 
address the contentious issues of entry into the single currency or 
the Prime Minister's handshake with Gerry Adams in the upper chamber.

   Lord Cranborne said the Government had refused to allow two private 
notice questions, which would have thrown light on the issues, to be 
tabled.

    "We have a house of Parliament sitting which they refuse to go to 
when they have an opportunity to explain what's going on," he said. He 
added Labour had shown "incompetence in the way it handles financial 
markets" and was "clearly running away from the issues".

   Allowing a question about the Government's position on entry into 
the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (EMU) "would have been an elegant 
way of addressing the matter and would have caused much less trouble 
than it has done."

   He was "amazed" that such a question was not deemed sufficiently 
urgent by Lord Richard, the Leader of the House, to be tabled.

   And he said the issue - as well as the state of negotiations in 
Northern Ireland and the importance of the principle of consent - 
would now be raised in two separate debates tomorrow.

   Lord Cranborne also accused the Prime Minister and his huge party 
of treating the Lords "as a handy whipping boy" which could be 
attacked as an out-of-date, undemocratic institution, full of "old 
buffers", whenever the Government suffered a defeat.

   "Tony Blair and his myrmidons are really rather grateful to the 
House of Lords because they use us as a handy whipping boy and ignore 
completely the realities of the constitution," he said.

   He said the Opposition, which has only defeated the present 
Government three times in the Lords, was wary of doing so, and only 
did so on small issues which it felt "probably deserve an airing in 
the second house".

   Lord Cranborne said an example of such flagellation was Tony 
Blair's claim in the week of the Scottish referendum that this would 
be passed as long as there was no opposition from the House of Lords.

   Yet such blocking was impossible due to the Salisbury convention, 
which stipulates peers have no power to reject a piece of legislation 
pledged in the Government's election manifesto.

   He also claimed the argument hereditary peers were responsible for 
the Government's double defeat on the handguns bill last Thursday was 
weakened since the votes also came from Life Peers. 

   Around 75 of the 120 who voted in favour of allowing disabled 
pistol shooters to carry on with their sport were those with inherited 
titles.

   And he said the Government would not have been defeated on the 
second amendment -allowing international competition shooting to 
continue at specially-approved and secure national centres - had it 
managed to ensure its peers remained for the second vote.

   "The second defeat only happened because the Government couldn't 
get its new life peers to stay," he said, adding that if the 101 peers 
opposing the first amendment had remained for the second, they would 
have defeated the 90 in favour. Lord McIntosh of Haringey, the 
Government Deputy Chief Whip, will tomorrow have to comment on the 
Government's position on EMU in a debate on the importance of saving, 
which has been extended to draw attention "to the need for stability 
in the financial markets".

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		  Politician Denies Irish Presidency Poll Slur

RTw  10/21/97 13:15   

Copyright 1997 Reuters Ltd
 
    By Martin Cowley

     BELFAST, Oct 21 (Reuters) - A senior Roman Catholic politician, 
seeking to calm a storm in the Republic of Ireland's presidential 
election, denied she had branded front-runner Mary McAleese a 
sympathiser of Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing.

     Moderate nationalist Brid Rodgers said that she had made no 
accusations against McAleese and that "unworthy and malevolent" 
inferences had been drawn from remarks she was reported to have made 
in sensitive government documents leaked to newspapers.

     Rodgers's denial came as acrimony from the Irish presidency race 
spilled over into fragile peace negotiations in neighbouring British 
Northern Ireland, where her SDLP group is the main Irish Catholic 
minority party.

     A key figure in the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 
Rodgers had been quoted in an official memorandum as saying that 
McAleese, and associates, were "pushing the Sinn Fein agenda" earlier 
this year.

     McAleese, battling against four other candidates, has spent much 
of the past two weeks repudiating suggestions in leaked documents that 
she had Sinn Fein sympathies.

     Sinn Fein was given a seat in Anglo-Irish-sponsored talks on 
Northern Ireland last month after the Irish Republican Army called a 
ceasefire in July in its long war against British rule.

     McAleese, a law professor at Queen's University in Belfast, says 
that she is not a Sinn Fein supporter and has been involved in bona-
fide peace-building efforts in the troubled province.

     Political analysts say the leaks, currently being probed by 
police, are obviously intended to damage her prospects in an election 
in which she has been the hot favourite from the outset.

     The IRA is banned on both sides of the Irish border. Sinn Fein 
has minimal support in the Republic but has a firm base of support 
among the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland.

     McAleese says talks that she had with Sinn Fein leader Gerry 
Adams were part of a "peace ministry" in which she was involved with 
Catholic priests aimed at ending decades of conflict in the British 
province.

     Rodgers said untrue implications had been drawn from remarks that 
she was purported to have made to an Irish government official some 
six months ago.

     She said she had never doubted the integrity of the participants 
in the peace effort that involved McAleese. "I want to make it 
absolutely clear...that I did not convey, and I don't think that the 
leaked document would suggest that I conveyed the view, that any of 
those people could in any way be identified with support in any shape 
or form, or with ambivalence, towards violence," she told Irish radio.

     The row surfaced in Northern Ireland peace negotiations on Monday 
when Alliance Party leader Lord John Alderdice said McAleese should 
consider withdrawing from the election.

     Alderdice, whose small party draws support from moderate 
Protestants and Catholics, told reporters a McAleese victory would be 
viewed in Northern Ireland as unhelpful to the task of winning peace 
and reconciliation. The province's Protestant majority wants to remain 
under British rule and rejects the Catholic minority's aspiration for 
an all-Ireland state.

     McAleese is the nominee of the Republic's ruling coalition of 
Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats. Prime Minister Bertie Ahern 
and senior ministers have stoutly defended her, describing her as a 
bridge-builder.
  REUTERS
 
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