Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein leader, takes push for peace to Detroit. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | September 26, 1994| | Copyright 
    DETROIT _ Not everyone was touched by the symbolism Monday when Irish nationalist leader Gerry Adams hugged Rosa Parks in a downtown Detroit auditorium. 
    In town to push for peace in Northern Ireland, Adams had just presented Parks, the civil rights pioneer, with a sparkling Irish crystal glass bowl. 
    ``This is a very personal mission and a very humbling one,'' said Adams, 45, the president of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. 
    As a youth in Belfast, Adams said he and others opposing British rule were inspired by newscasts of the American civil ...

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