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The collections, regularly rotated from the 45,000 works in reserve, range from the Fauves and Cubism to Abstract Expressionism, Dadaism, Surrealism, and all the breakaway factions and reactions which followed them.
Hundreds of civilians have died and at least 160,000 have fled the breakaway republic since Russia began military operations there in the wake of Moscow terrorist bombings.
Reflecting suspicions that the bomb was set by the "Real IRA," a breakaway branch of the IRA (the initial telephone warning was made by a caller using one of that group's code words, though official spokesmen denied responsibility Sunday), Ulster Unionist Party leader and Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble told the London Sunday Times that "this bomb would not have been made or detonated if Sinn Fein had handed over its explosives and weapons."
Regarding Omagh, Britain's Sunday People said that last year's bombing by the splinter group Real IRA could easily have derailed the peace process, but "the desire for peace was too strong for one breakaway IRA group to torpedo it.
Perhaps the WP, which calls it a "breakaway region" later on in the piece, was latently distracted by a blink in NYT datelines.