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(See David Plotz's assessment of Carey, "A More Perfect Unionist."
This "symbolic gesture" is timed to take place before a crucial meeting in early February of the Protestant Ulster Unionist Council, which is to review progress on the IRA's commitment to disarm.
"What David Trimble begged of John Hume, and what every moderate Ulster unionist wanted of him too, was that in the name of democracy he would stand by the Ulster Unionist Party and refuse to sit in government with the agents of armed paramilitaries," she wrote.
O'Brien predicted that Sinn Fein and the IRA would continue to operate the "peace process" as "a fertile and rewarding field for further blackmail" and that the peace proposals "may well be defeated" by unionist voters in the referendum.
But O'Brien, who has always been opposed to making deals with Sinn Fein, noted that there was now less open emphasis in Ireland on peace than on a breakthrough for Irish nationalism, and he added that an article in the Sunday Business Post--the Dublin newspaper most sympathetic to Sinn Fein--had rather given the game away with an article that said, "[T]he IRA, which is likely to maintain its ceasefire for several months, will almost certainly resist any attempt to accede to unionist demands for actual decommissioning of weapons by early summer."
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