Ulster Unionist Leaders Denounce Sinn Fein; N. Ireland Protestant Party Sits With IRA Political Wing at Peace Talks, Then Walks Out From: The Washington Post | Date: September 24, 1997| Author: Dan Balz | Copyright 1997 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

For the first time in 70 years, representatives of Northern Ireland's Protestant majority sat down today with representatives of Sinn Fein, the legal political arm of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. They came not to negotiate, but to condemn.

The encounter was another small milestone in the tortured history of efforts to find a peaceful settlement to three decades of sectarian violence here; it lasted barely half an hour. In that short time, the Ulster Unionist Party leadershi...

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