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Prospects gloomy for latest Belfast peace talks: Irish premier vows resolve to end fighting.(World)(Briefing/Europe)(News Analysis)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19960915
Author:Sieff, Martin

Out of Ireland have we come Great hatred, little room . . . I carry from my mother's womb A fanatic heart.

The dark and gloomy words of Ireland's great poet, William Butler Yeats, echo as, yet again, British and Irish leaders and local Northern Ireland politicians gather around a table in Belfast seeking an end to one of Europe's oldest, most bitter conflicts.

The chance that they will succeed isn't high, experts say.

"The idea that we can negotiate that conflict to an end has never been very likely," said retired Lt. Gen. William Odom, former head of the ...

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