NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Belfast on President Clinton's third and final trip as president today to Northern Ireland. Although he held four hours of talks with leaders of the main parties, the President failed to break the deadlock that is threatening to scuttle their new power-sharing institutions. He made an impassioned plea to them to defend the faltering peace process. While most gave him a warm welcome, a member of Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party harangued the President for negotiating with Sinn Fein (shin fayn), the party aligned with the Irish Republican Army.
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