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Nobel Joint Laureate Says IRA Must Hand in Arms
10 December 1998
Reuters
OSLO — Northern Irish Protestant leader David Trimble piled pressure on hardline IRA guerrillas to disarm on Thursday when he and Catholic politician John Hume received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work to end bloodshed.
"Common sense dictates that I cannot for ever convince society that real peace is at hand if there is not a beginning to the decommissioning of weapons as an earnest of the decommissioning of hearts that must follow," said Trimble, First Minister... (GunPolicy.org)