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    • There is still some way to travel on arms issue

      Martin Ferris was probably pitching it a bit strong when he said, in an interview with the Belfast-based Irish News, that the IRA's decision to open some of its arms dumps to international inspection "saved" the peace process. p
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    • Making Men of Ourselves

      The completion of the Human Genome Project is very exciting news, and already a survey has shown that close to 0.0087 per cent of our readers understand what it is all about. It is rather complicated, of course, and quite a number of readers had difficulty filling out our questionnaire, though we did our best to couch it in clear English. p
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    • Elian Goes Home

      Elian Gonzalez's return to Cuba from the United States last night brings a remarkable human and political story to a satisfactory close. The six-year-old child, with his father with whom he was reunited earlier this year, was flown home after the US Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch appeal by his Miami relatives to keep him in the US and to give him political asylum. The court thereby confirmed an honourable position taken by the US administration over the course of the affair, in which it consistently supported the principle of parental custody over the political case made by the Miami-based Cuban exile community that state repression in Cuba rendered it inapplicable. p

    • Inflation takes hold

      Inflation has taken hold in the economy and all the indications are that the rate of increase of the consumer price index in June and July will creep close to, or even surpass, six per cent. Nothing the Government has proposed in its inflation package this week will stop that. In the Dail yesterday the Taoiseach said inflation could rise as high as 6.2 per cent, a full percentage point above its last recorded level of 5.2 per cent. He also admitted that the full impact of the strength of sterling on import prices was not fully reflected in the current statistics and could yet exacerbate the situation. p
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    • An Irishman's Diary

      Here I was, calling for the Government to upgrade the Defence Forces, and declaring what a splendid machine the EH101 helicopter, is and shouting for more equipment and a better career structure for the forces personnel - and wasting my time and everyone else's. The path ahead for them lies not with the Government but with private enterprise, and our splendid young narcotics dealers. p
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    • Jackboots

      "Erin the tear and the smile" has nothing on German sentimental popular songs. Or so it seems from a pile of letters written by an Irish schoolboy back to his family around the mid-1930s. He first came across them at a wine festival on the Rhine - a nightly hooley with lots of oompapa music, dancing and liberal outpourings of the new vintage - or just unfermented grape juice. The songs deal with the blonde kid on the Rhine that someone told to say hello to her, and say himself would soon be back. Then a waltz, Einmal am Rhein, or "Once on the Rhine", an amorous longing for happy days of the past. And so on. Then lovely folk-songs celebrating the seasons. p
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