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Adams Urges IRA Disarmament

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From: AP Online
Date: 20011022
Author:ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer

ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
10-22-2001
Adams Urges IRA Disarmament

LONDON (AP) -- Sparking expectations of a breakthrough, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams urged the Irish Republican Army on Monday to begin disarming to save Northern Ireland's peace process.

Adams' call came within days of the likely collapse of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government, created as part of the Good Friday peace agreement of 1998 but hobbled repeatedly by the disarmament issue.

As in 1997, when the IRA announced a cease-fire a day after Adams publicly recommended it, his speech raised ...

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