IRA's Gerry Adams to visit Cuba

Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit

source - JosePertierra@aol.com


Pawtucket Times, 16 August, 2001

Gerry Adams to visit Cuba

LONDON, Aug 15, 2001 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- The Sinn
Fein President, Gerry Adams, plans to visit Cuba next month, reports said
Wednesday. The visit could further damage the special relationship between
the Irish republican movement and the White House, The Telegraph of London
reported.

Sinn Fein announced Monday that Adams would visit Cuba and meet Castro. He
was expected to visit the communist Caribbean state in the spring of this
year but cancelled the trip. Sinn Fein has long been a supporter of Castro's
Cuba.

During the Clinton administration the political wing of the Irish Republican
Army played down its admiration for the Cuban leader because it did not want
to upset its friends in the White House.

Adams' decision to "go ahead with the visit despite certain disapproval from
President Bush suggests that this Irish-American relationship is beginning
to cool," the report said. In September 1981, Castro caused a walkout by the
British and American delegations to the 63rd conference of the
Inter-parliamentary Union in Havana when he supported IRA hunger strikers in
his speech.

IRA also has links with other left wing movements in South America. On
Monday, an army spokesman in Bogota said they had arrested three IRA
suspects who were training leftist guerrillas in Colombia.

(c) The Pawtucket Times 2001
 
=================================================================
  NY Transfer News Collective   *   A Service of Blythe Systems 
           Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us          
              339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012             
  http://www.blythe.org                  e-mail: nyt@blythe.org 
=================================================================
 
nytire-08.16.01-18:18:54-11859