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Waxahachie, Texas (CNN) -- Preliminary air quality tests show "no threat to the public" from a massive fire at a Texas chemical plant Monday, city and federal officials said.

Waxahachie Fire Chief David Hudgins said authorities believe that the fire "overran the sprinkler system," and it sent thick plumes of smoke high into the sky hours after it started. There were no flames visible by late afternoon, though by then the blaze might have discharged dangerous substances into the air, according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

That prompted EPA staff to dispatch air monitors to test for toxic vapors. Around 4:45 p.m. (5:45 p.m. EST), Waxahachie city spokeswoman Amy Hollywood said initial tests did not indicate any danger to those in the area. That assessment was later confirmed by EPA official Nicolas Brescia.

"We have not seen any significant level that would cause a public health concern," Brescia told reporters.

Brescia said that tests conducted from flights over and around the fire detected small amounts of two chemicals, but nothing that would be considered dangerous to anyone outside the immediate vicinity of the fire. A statement from his federal agency also indicated that "ground-level portable sampling devices did not show elevated toxic chemicals."

Earlier, Dave Bary -- a Dallas-based spokesman for the EPA -- said the most prevalent chemical that the company had documented, and produced on site, was anhydrous ammonia.

The EPA official said earlier Monday that 48,630 pounds of the chemical, which creates a toxic vapor downwind when released, have been reported at the site. It was not known how much of the chemical was released into the air during the fire.

Officials ordered the evacuation of a school, an apartment building and other industrial sites within an eight-block radius of the plant, said Diana Buckley, an official with Ellis County government. A shelter-in-place advisory is in effect for some smaller nearby towns northwest of the city, including Red Oak, she said.

"Everybody is out and safe," Donald Golden, environmental health and safety manager for Magnablend Inc., the plant's owner, said of employees and visitors to the plant.

The plant stores and mixes numerous chemicals, said Amy Hollywood, a city spokeswoman.

Images transmitted by CNN affiliates KTVT and WFAA showed orange flames devouring buildings and licking at tanker cars parked at the edge of the Magnablend plant, which is about 30 miles south of Dallas.

Firefighters had pulled back and were using ladder trucks to spray water on the fire, Hollywood said.

Multiple fire departments were on the scene. One of the them, the Midlothian Fire Department, reported that chemicals had been released in the fire, but no additional details were immediately available.

Officials have said burning liquid continued to fuel the flames hours after it began, but they appeared able to wrestle the fire under control by early Monday evening.

There was no immediate word on the cause on the fire, Golden said. No one was injured in the fire, Hudgins said.

The nearby Wedgeworth Elementary School was evacuated, a school district official confirmed. Students were being taken to a school across town, school officials said.

Navarro College's Waxahachie campus also evacuated, a receptionist confirmed. Southwestern Assemblies of God University, which is on the other side of town from the chemical plant, was keeping people inside but had not evacuated, spokeswoman Christina Freeze said.

Magnablend produces custom chemicals for a variety of industries, including oil, agriculture, pet and animal feed, water treatment, construction and industrial cleaning companies, according to its website.

Anhydrous ammonia is a clear, colorless gas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It can be absorbed into the body by inhalation, ingestion, eye contact and skin contact.

CNN's Ed Lavandera and Dave Alsup contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- Taiwan's economy slumped 8.36 percent during the last three months of 2008, the government said Wednesday.

People line up to receive $108 U.S. dollars worth of shopping vouchers in Taipei, Taiwan, last month.

The island's economy spiraled into recession with its second straight quarter of economic losses. For the third quarter of 2008, Taiwan's real gross domestic product (GDP), adjusted for inflation, slipped about 1 percent, according to the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics.

Behind the dismal economic numbers is a global recession that is sapping demand for the products Taiwan makes.

"The types of exports that Taiwan ships to the West -- electronics -- are very severely affected, very sensitive to changes in Western consumer sentiment," said Frederic Neumann, a senior Asian economist for HSBC.

The GDP numbers are the broadest measure of Taiwan's economic activity. A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of falling GDP.

Taiwan's central bank, in a move to boost the economy, on Wednesday dropped its key interest rate one-quarter point, to 1.25 percent.

Since the end of 2007, the central bank has lowered rates by more than 2 percent.

In January, the Taiwanese government offered the island's residents up to $108 each to go shopping, in another attempt to stimulate the economy.

More than 90 percent of those eligible took up the offer, pumping about TW $86 billion ($2.6 billion) into the economy and sending shoppers to malls, officials said.

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(CNN) -- World Twenty20 champions Pakistan were left stunned after none of their players were signed up for the lucrative Indian Premier League cricket tournament in Tuesday's auction.

With this year's budget slashed from $2 million per team to just $750,000, only 11 of the 66 international players on offer were snapped up.

West Indies all-rounder Kieron Pollard and veteran New Zealand pace bowler Shane Bond were the biggest winners as the Mumbai Indians and the Kolkata Knight Riders respectively used their entire allocated funds to sign them for the 2010 season.

But Pakistan's Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi, one of the world's most explosive players in the limited-overs format, failed to secure a place along with teammates highly-rated Mohammad Aamer, Umar Gul and Umar Akmal.

Afridi's manager blamed the Indian government for continuing its long-running tensions with Pakistan.

"I'd heard prior to the auction that franchises were being advised not to bid for Pakistani players as the players from Pakistan would not be issued with visas by the Indian government, and that is precisely what has happened," Umar Khan told www.pakpassion.net.

"The Indian Premier League have been using Afridi's name and pictures to publicize the tournament and to build up the hype, and he was expected to be one of the most popular players amongst the franchises."

Big-hitting all-rounder Afridi was stunned to be left out, having played for the Deccan Chargers in 2008 but did not feature last year as the team won the title.

"I'm stunned by the omission and, yes, I'm obviously very disappointed as I was really looking forward to playing once again in the Indian Premier League and testing my skills against the world's best players and against friends and colleagues," he said.

"I thought I would be picked and am very surprised at the outcome of the auction."

Pollard was sought by four teams, with Mumbai heading off Kolkata, the Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Chennai Super Kings after making a sealed-envelope final bid.

The 22-year-old Pollard, who has played only 15 one-dayers and 10 Twenty20 internationals, takes $750,000 as his payment while the undisclosed extra money goes to the IPL.

The 34-year-old Bond, who has retired from Test cricket to prolong his career, has been welcomed into the IPL fold despite having signed up with its unsanctioned rival Indian Cricket League, which has not been staged since 2008.

He went into the auction with a $100,000 reserve price tag, but both Kolkata and the Chargers bid the full amount for him.

West Indies fast bowler Kemar Roach went to the Chargers for $720,000 while Delhi Daredevils signed South Africa fast bowler Wayne Parnell for $610,000 -- $510,000 more than his reserve price.

Former India batsman Mohammad Kaif was sold to the Kings XI Punjab franchise for $250,000 after his contract was bought out by the Rajasthan Royals, while Bangalore signed England one-day specialist Eoin Morgan for $220,000.

Rajasthan also snapped up former Australia batsman Damien Martyn ($100,000) and his compatriot Adam Voges ($50,000), while Chennai Super Kings signed South Africa's Justin Kemp ($100,000) and Sri Lanka's Thissara Perera ($50,000).

In the only other sale, Punjab bought South Africa's Yusuf Abdulla for $50,000.

Meanwhile, India reached 122-1 in their second innings at stumps on the third day of the opening Test against Bangladesh in Chittagong, having bowled out the home side for 242.

The tourists narrowly avoided conceding a first-innings deficit for the first time against cricket's lowest-ranked Test nation, with Bangladesh falling one run short after resuming on 59-3 after bad light and fogged delayed the start of play on Tuesday.

Mahmudullah scored a personal best 69 as he added 108 for the seventh wicket with Mushfiqur Rahim (44), but spinner Amit Mishra cleaned up the tail to finish with three wickets to match the feat of left-arm seamer Zaheer Khan.

Mishra was then unbeaten on 24 at stumps along with opener Gautam Gambhir, who made 47 after putting on 90 for the first wicket with Virender Sehwag (45).

CNN's Harmeet Singh contributed to this report.

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San Bernardino, California (CNN) -- A man accused of shooting and paralyzing a U.S. Army soldier at a homecoming party pleaded not guilty to all charges at his arraignment Thursday.

Ruben Jurado, 19, faces a charge of attempted murder in the shooting of Army Spc. Christopher Sullivan on Friday night at a homecoming party in Sullivan's native San Bernardino, California.

Jurado also faces four "special allegations involving premeditation and the use and discharge of a firearm, causing great bodily injury," said Christopher Lee, spokesman for the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office.

"Special allegations" can add to a convict's sentence in California.

Jurado entered court Thursday in an orange jail jumpsuit, with his hands and ankles shackled. The arraignment lasted only a few minutes.

Three of Sullivan's relatives attended.

The next court date is scheduled for January 9.

The defense team expects to receive "initial discovery of police reports and any other evidence that the district attorney has," defense attorney Michael Holmes said Wednesday. He noted that the court "allows video arraignment" but said Jurado "wanted to be present in court during the entire process."

The party in Sullivan's honor was to celebrate his recent return to California from Kentucky, where he was stationed while recovering from wounds sustained in a suicide bombing a year ago in Afghanistan. That bombing killed five members of his unit and left him with a cracked collarbone and brain damage, according to the San Bernardino County Sun. Sullivan received the Purple Heart.

At the party, Sullivan was shot twice after an argument and physical confrontation with Jurado, who fled the scene, according to police and witnesses.

The fight broke out after Jurado and Sullivan's younger brother began arguing about football, the brothers' mother, Suzanne Sullivan, said.

Jurado turned himself in to authorities in Chino Hills, California, on Monday afternoon, said Lt. Gwendolyn Waters.

Suzanne Sullivan said her family is having a difficult time coming to terms with what happened.

"He once told me that if defending this country takes his life, so be it," she said. "But to see he survived that, and now for this to happen to him, just breaks my heart."

CNN's Stan Wilson, Stella Chan, Adam Blaker, Carey Bodenheimer, and Josh Levs contributed to this report.

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(CNN)  -- Jurors started to deliberate Friday after prosecutors and defense attorneys made closing arguments in the murder trial of an anti-abortion activist charged with killing a doctor who performed late-term abortion procedures.

Scott Roeder is charged with murder in the death of Dr. George Tiller, who was shot to death May 31 in his church in Wichita, Kansas.

Prosecutor Ann Swegle urged jurors to convict Roeder, reminding the jury of the defendant's testimony Thursday.

"His testimony was delivered very matter-of-factly, but its contents were chillingly horrific," she said. "He carried out a planned assassination, and there can be no other verdict in this case ... other than guilty."

Kim T. Park, chief deputy district attorney, told the jurors that Roeder's actions were unjustified and cowardly.

"Scott Roeder is not justified," she said. "He is only and simply guilty of the crimes he is charged with."

Mark Rudy, a defense attorney for Roeder, told jurors that Roeder believed he had to act.

"Scott thought that the babies kept on dying," he said. "Scott formed a belief that he had to stop George Tiller from killing more babies."

He admitted that Roeder killed Tiller but said only the jurors can decide if Roeder "murdered" Tiller. He said he was not asking jurors "to check your common sense at the door" and urged them to "represent our little part of the nation well."

"No defendant should ever be convicted based on his convictions," Rudy said.

Roeder testified Thursday that he shot and killed Tiller and did not regret it.

"There was nothing being done, and the legal process had been exhausted, and these babies were dying every day," Roeder said. "I felt that if someone did not do something, he was going to continue."

Tiller ran a women's clinic at which he performed abortions.

Sedgwick County District Judge Warren Wilbert ruled after the end of testimony Thursday that the jury could not consider a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter against Roeder as the defense wanted. In making the ruling, Wilbert noted that Roeder had been talking about killing Tiller for 10 years, CNN affiliate WDAF reported.

Several of Tiller's family members broke into tears as Roeder recounted the shooting.

Roeder said he didn't regret what he did and felt "a sense of relief" when he learned that Tiller's clinic was shut down after his death.

Roeder calmly testified that he thought about different ways to kill the doctor -- driving a car into his, perhaps, or shooting him with a rifle. He also considered cutting Tiller's hands off with a sword, but decided that would not be effective, as Tiller would still be able to train others.

Tiller, 67, was one of the few U.S. doctors who performed late-term abortion procedures. He had already survived one attempt on his life before he was killed.

He decided to kill Tiller at his church, he said, because "I felt that actually if he was to be stopped, that was probably the only place he could have been stopped. ... It was the only window of opportunity I saw."

Roeder said he visited the church four or five times before Tiller's death. The week before the shooting, on May 24, he carried a .22-caliber handgun with him, he testified, but Tiller did not attend church that day.

On May 31, though, the doctor was there, and "I did what I thought was needed to be done to protect the children," Roeder said. "I shot him."

"The lives of those children were in imminent danger if someone did not stop George Tiller," he said.

The defense had sought to have former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline and current Deputy Attorney General Barry Disney testify, but the judge did not allow it. Kline unsuccessfully attempted to prosecute Tiller in 2006, and Disney charged Tiller with 19 misdemeanor counts, but a jury acquitted him.

Wilbert said Roeder could testify about the cases and how they affected his beliefs, but to allow testimony from Kline would "get into legal matters that do not concern this jury."

And, the judge said, the cases do not give Roeder a basis to state absolutely that Tiller's actions were illegal, since the doctor had never been convicted.

Defense attorneys claim Roeder was led to shoot Tiller in part because of authorities' failure to punish him through the judicial system.

Roeder testified he was "very frustrated" by Tiller's acquittal, saying it "seemed like that was the last attempt by the state of Kansas to find if there was anything at all going on illegally in George Tiller's clinic."

Roeder could face life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder. He also is charged with two counts of aggravated assault for allegedly pointing his gun at two other ushers as he fled the church.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The Beastie Boys canceled all scheduled concerts and delayed their next album release while member Adam "MCA" Yauch is treated for a cancerous tumor in a salivary gland, Yauch says in a video statement to fans.

The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch will be treated for a cancerous tumor in a salivary gland.

"The good news is that they did scans of my whole body and it's only localized in this one area and it's not in a place that affects my voice," Yauch says. "So, that's nice. That's convenient."

The cancer is in his left parotid gland and "also in a lymph node right in that area," he says.

He will probably have surgery next week and radiation treatments afterward, he says.

With band mate Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz sitting next to him, Yauch tells fans how he found out he had cancer.

"About two months ago, I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything," he says.

His doctor sent him to a specialist who diagnosed the cancer, he says.

Yauch does not estimate how long the tour will be delayed, but he apologizes to "anyone who's made plans" to come to the shows.

The illness will also delay the release of the band's next album, "Hot Sauce Committee Part 1," he says.

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(CNN) -- Commentators who have watched the conflict in Northern Ireland play out for decades call the peace process a miracle.

Various leaders negotiated for years to bring an end to Northern Ireland's "troubles."

Culminating in a power sharing deal between Ulster's unionists, led by Ian Paisley, and Sinn Fein, the political arm of the IRA (nationalists), led by Gerry Adams, the road to peace has been a torturous one characterized by violence, set-backs and numerous false starts.

Only recently the Ulster Defence Association, Northern Ireland's largest loyalist group, said it will cease to be an armed paramilitary group, starting at midnight on November 11, saying the "war is over."

"All weaponry will be put beyond use," Colin Halliday of the Ulster Political Research Group, which is linked to the group, said in a speech in Belfast aired by RTE, Ireland's state-owned broadcaster. "The struggle to maintain the union is on a new and more complex battlefield."

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) disarmed two years ago, helping to restore the province's government in Belfast.

Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said the most recent moves of groups to disarm was "significant and hopefully signals a further step toward the ending of all paramilitarism in Northern Ireland."

For those that have lived through the turmoil in Northern Ireland, peace achieved though diplomacy must have seemed like an unrealistic goal. After all, each attack by loyalists usually resulted in retaliation by nationalists -- making the dispute bitter and intractable.

But diplomacy has worked in bringing peace to Northern Ireland.

Credit for developing a framework for the peace process stretches back to former British Prime Minster John Major's rule in the 1990s and efforts by Ireland's Ahern. But it was Major's successor, Tony Blair, who was unrelenting in his quest for peace by making it a major priority of his government.

Blair came to Northern Ireland 37 times as Prime Minister, traveling there more often than any of his predecessors as well as hosting many meetings at 10 Downing Street and discussing the peace process while at many international summits.

According to the Belfast Telegraph: "When he (Blair) said on that first day he had come to seek 'a lasting and fair political settlement' it turned out he wasn't spouting platitudes on a stump."

Journalist James Button, who covered the peace process talks, says: "Blair played a clever hand. He saw the hardliners had to be involved.

"Critically he judged that the process had to tilt ever so slightly towards the republicans to prevent a split in their ranks and the resumption of violence by radicals -- which had happened whenever the republican leadership had inclined to moderation before."

Button says Downing Street had a bicycle theory around peace talks: "They had to keep going forward otherwise they would fall over."

It was Blair's diplomacy that wooed the previously immovable Paisley. Irish political scientist Lord Bew told the Guardian the alliance with Paisley was Blair's "last great romance... Once again when we thought the old maestro was fading, his capacity to seduce, politically speaking, is phenomenal."

But as Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein told CNN, the conflict was primarily a local one that needed to be solved by local people: "The people who have to be the brokers are the people who live in the areas of conflict.

"They're the people who ought to be the brokers but everybody else from the outside has to enhance the conditions so that those leaders or factions can actually broker not just an agreement, but implement an agreement.

"The Good Friday Agreement -- and [former U.S.] Senator [George] Mitchell said this at the time, when we got the agreement -- "That's the easy bit. Implementing it is going to be the difficult bit."

Mitchell worked with the various participants to reach an agreement.

The long road to peace

The "troubles" have been a centuries-old dispute between England and Ireland over who controls Northern Ireland.

In 1609 British colonial settlers confiscated native-owned land in Northern Ireland and settled in Ulster with mainly Protestant British planters. There was conflict between the planters and the native Irish. The planters won the bloody ethno-religious conflicts that followed and cracked down on the political and religious freedoms of the indigenous Irish.

In the 1700s groups formed (including the Ulster Orangemen that continue to this day) and antagonisms between the two communities became entrenched.

Ireland was incorporated into the UK in 1801 and reformers such as Daniel O'Connell called for the repeal of the union as well as the end of discrimination of Catholics (around 75 percent of the population).

The agitation of the Irish Parliamentary Party, who sometimes held the balance of power in Westminster, led to the unionists further entrenching their position for British rule.

In 1920 guerilla warfare between what became known as the IRA and Unionists led to the partitioning of southern Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Nationalists in Northern Ireland, who numbered around 35 per cent of the population, did not accept legitimacy of the new partition.

Between 1970 and 1972 tensions that had been brewing erupted into violence with almost 500 people killed in Northern Ireland. One explanation for this was the formation of the real IRA, which embraced "armed struggle" against British rule.

Another was the introduction of internment without trial (the vast majority of those imprisoned were Catholic) which succeed in politicizing many into the nationalist cause.

Bloody Sunday -- a January 1972 shooting in Derry of 14 unarmed nationalist civil rights activists by the British Army -- was a flashpoint in the conflict.

In 1972 the retaliation of the Provos came at a massive cost -- more than 100 soldiers were killed, 500 were wounded and there were 1300 bombings.

Yet the nationalists vowed to continue their campaign until there was a united Ireland.

Successive British governments failed to solve the "Irish question" so the participants settled in for what the IRA called the Long War, which involved sustained, low-level violence, hunger strikes and protests.

The stop-start cease-fire

Since the late 1980s Sinn Fein, which compared its struggle to that of the fight for liberation in Palestine and South Africa, has sought a negotiated end to the conflict.

Both loyalist and republican paramilitary groups declared a cease-fire after much negotiation. But the peace was fragile and short-lived.

The IRA, led by Adams, revoked the cease-fire in 1996 after a bombing at Canary Wharf in London that killed two and caused Â£85 million worth of damage.

In June 1996 a large part of Manchester's city center was destroyed by an IRA bomb that injured 200 people.

Splinter groups of the IRA who rejected the notion of a cease-fire continued their campaigns. In August 1998 the Real IRA bombed Omagh, killing 29 civilians.

But during the 1990s many world leaders still held out for peace in Northern Ireland.

Supporters of talks included the president of the U.S., Bill Clinton, who in 1995 visited Northern Ireland and spoke in Belfast of the "peace process," calling terrorists "yesterday's men."

Diplomacy in action

In 1997 newly elected British Prime Minister Tony Blair endorsed a report on decommissioning and the criteria for inclusion in all-party talks. Mo Mowlam, the UK's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, accepted in August 1997 that the IRA cease-fire was genuine and invited Sinn Fein for multi-party talks.

On Good Friday, April 10 1998, it was announced that the two governments and political parties in Northern Ireland had reached an agreement to share power. It later emerged that President Clinton had made a number of calls to party leaders to encourage them to reach an agreement.

The agreement included a devolved, inclusive government, prisoner release, troop reduction, paramilitary decommissioning, and the addressing of the question of Irish reunification.

The definitive end of the peace process -- and the Troubles - came in 2007 following the St Andrews agreement in October 2006 and the March 2007 elections. The Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein formed a government in May 2007 and in July 2007 the British Army formally ended their mission in Northern Ireland, 38 years after their deployment.

Today, Northern Ireland is still part of the United Kingdom but the British government has said if there is a majority of votes then a united Ireland will be possible.

The key to winning support from the Nationalists/ Republicans was the British Government recognizing the "Irish Dimension" -- that the Irish as a whole should have the right to work out the issues between the North and the South, without outside interference.

Prosperity and peace

According to an article in the Financial Times, former sectarians have been tamed not only by peace but also by prosperity.

"The little brick houses which rose 56 percent in price in the last year cost more than the English average. There are Japanese restaurants. The locals fly from George Best Airport to their Alpine second homes. These people are, in the local phase, 'recovering sectarians,'" according to the FT.

Aiding this process is the European Union, which is flooding Northern Ireland with funds, believing that the peace and diplomatic process needs to be financially assisted.

The European Union's investment, worth 724 million euros (about 1.03 billion U.S. dollars) will be made available through the three programs -- the PEACE III program, the cross-border cooperation program with Ireland and Scotland, and the Regional Competitiveness and Employment program for the province.

But peace and prosperity would not have occurred without the success of diplomacy, says Adams. "There's been a war somewhere in the world for every day of every week of every month of the last few decades and all of them are caused by human beings, mostly by men ... all of them can be resolved through dialogue." E-mail to a friend

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text: first

text: day

text: he

text: had

text: come

text: to

text: seek

text: a

text: lasting

text: and

text: fair

text: political

text: settlement

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text: turned

text: out

text: he

text: was

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text: spouting

text: platitudes

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text: a

text: stump

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text: Button

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text: peace

text: process

text: talks

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text: a

text: clever

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text: hardliners

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text: resumption

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text: whenever

text: the

text: republican

text: leadership

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text: Street

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text: had

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text: diplomacy

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text: previously

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text: Lord

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text: Guardian

text: the

text: alliance

text: with

text: Paisley

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text: last

text: great

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text: we

text: thought

text: the

text: old

text: maestro

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text: capacity

text: to

text: seduce

text: politically

text: speaking

text: is

text: phenomenal

text: But

text: as

text: Gerry

text: Adams

text: of

text: Sinn

text: Fein

text: told

text: CNN

text: the

text: conflict

text: was

text: primarily

text: a

text: local

text: one

text: that

text: needed

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text: be

text: solved

text: by

text: local

text: people

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text: people

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text: brokers

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text: people

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text: ought

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text: brokers

text: but

text: everybody

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text: the

text: outside

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text: enhance

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text: conditions

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text: leaders

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text: factions

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text: actually

text: broker

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text: an

text: agreement

text: but

text: implement

text: an

text: agreement

text: The

text: Good

text: Friday

text: Agreement

text: and

text: former

text: U.S.

text: Senator

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text: Mitchell

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text: the

text: time

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text: we

text: got

text: the

text: agreement

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text: cost

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text: nationalists

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text: campaign

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text: united

text: Ireland

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text: participants

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text: IRA

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text: Long

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text: late

text: Sinn

text: Fein

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text: struggle

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text: of

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text: fight

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text: liberation

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text: South

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text: negotiated

text: end

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text: the

text: conflict

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text: republican

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text: groups

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text: cease

text: fire

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text: much

text: negotiation

text: But

text: the

text: peace

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text: and

text: short

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text: IRA

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text: by

text: Adams

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text: the

text: cease

text: fire

text: in

text: after

text: a

text: bombing

text: at

text: Canary

text: Wharf

text: in

text: London

text: that

text: killed

text: two

text: and

text: caused

text: Â£85

text: million

text: worth

text: of

text: damage

text: In

text: June

text: a

text: large

text: part

text: of

text: Manchester

text: 's

text: city

text: center

text: was

text: destroyed

text: by

text: an

text: IRA

text: bomb

text: that

text: injured

text: people

text: Splinter

text: groups

text: of

text: the

text: IRA

text: who

text: rejected

text: the

text: notion

text: of

text: a

text: cease

text: fire

text: continued

text: their

text: campaigns

text: In

text: August

text: the

text: Real

text: IRA

text: bombed

text: Omagh

text: killing

text: civilians

text: But

text: during

text: the

text: many

text: world

text: leaders

text: still

text: held

text: out

text: for

text: peace

text: in

text: Northern

text: Ireland

text: Supporters

text: of

text: talks

text: included

text: the

text: president

text: of

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Bill

text: Clinton

text: who

text: in

text: visited

text: Northern

text: Ireland

text: and

text: spoke

text: in

text: Belfast

text: of

text: the

text: peace

text: process

text: calling

text: terrorists

text: yesterday

text: 's

text: men

text: Diplomacy

text: in

text: action

text: In

text: newly

text: elected

text: British

text: Prime

text: Minister

text: Tony

text: Blair

text: endorsed

text: a

text: report

text: on

text: decommissioning

text: and

text: the

text: criteria

text: for

text: inclusion

text: in

text: all

text: party

text: talks

text: Mo

text: Mowlam

text: the

text: UK

text: 's

text: Secretary

text: of

text: State

text: for

text: Northern

text: Ireland

text: accepted

text: in

text: August

text: that

text: the

text: IRA

text: cease

text: fire

text: was

text: genuine

text: and

text: invited

text: Sinn

text: Fein

text: for

text: multi

text: party

text: talks

text: On

text: Good

text: Friday

text: April

text: it

text: was

text: announced

text: that

text: the

text: two

text: governments

text: and

text: political

text: parties

text: in

text: Northern

text: Ireland

text: had

text: reached

text: an

text: agreement

text: to

text: share

text: power

text: It

text: later

text: emerged

text: that

text: President

text: Clinton

text: had

text: made

text: a

text: number

text: of

text: calls

text: to

text: party

text: leaders

text: to

text: encourage

text: them

text: to

text: reach

text: an

text: agreement

text: The

text: agreement

text: included

text: a

text: devolved

text: inclusive

text: government

text: prisoner

text: release

text: troop

text: reduction

text: paramilitary

text: decommissioning

text: and

text: the

text: addressing

text: of

text: the

text: question

text: of

text: Irish

text: reunification

text: The

text: definitive

text: end

text: of

text: the

text: peace

text: process

text: and

text: the

text: Troubles

text: came

text: in

text: following

text: the

text: St

text: Andrews

text: agreement

text: in

text: October

text: and

text: the

text: March

text: elections

text: The

text: Democratic

text: Unionist

text: Party

text: and

text: Sinn

text: Fein

text: formed

text: a

text: government

text: in

text: May

text: and

text: in

text: July

text: the

text: British

text: Army

text: formally

text: ended

text: their

text: mission

text: in

text: Northern

text: Ireland

text: years

text: after

text: their

text: deployment

text: Today

text: Northern

text: Ireland

text: is

text: still

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: United

text: Kingdom

text: but

text: the

text: British

text: government

text: has

text: said

text: if

text: there

text: is

text: a

text: majority

text: of

text: votes

text: then

text: a

text: united

text: Ireland

text: will

text: be

text: possible

text: The

text: key

text: to

text: winning

text: support

text: from

text: the

text: Nationalists/

text: Republicans

text: was

text: the

text: British

text: Government

text: recognizing

text: the

text: Irish

text: Dimension

text: that

text: the

text: Irish

text: as

text: a

text: whole

text: should

text: have

text: the

text: right

text: to

text: work

text: out

text: the

text: issues

text: between

text: the

text: North

text: and

text: the

text: South

text: without

text: outside

text: interference

text: Prosperity

text: and

text: peace

text: According

text: to

text: an

text: article

text: in

text: the

text: Financial

text: Times

text: former

text: sectarians

text: have

text: been

text: tamed

text: not

text: only

text: by

text: peace

text: but

text: also

text: by

text: prosperity

text: The

text: little

text: brick

text: houses

text: which

text: rose

text: percent

text: in

text: price

text: in

text: the

text: last

text: year

text: cost

text: more

text: than

text: the

text: English

text: average

text: There

text: are

text: Japanese

text: restaurants

text: The

text: locals

text: fly

text: from

text: George

text: Best

text: Airport

text: to

text: their

text: Alpine

text: second

text: homes

text: These

text: people

text: are

text: in

text: the

text: local

text: phase

text: recovering

text: sectarians

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: FT

text: Aiding

text: this

text: process

text: is

text: the

text: European

text: Union

text: which

text: is

text: flooding

text: Northern

text: Ireland

text: with

text: funds

text: believing

text: that

text: the

text: peace

text: and

text: diplomatic

text: process

text: needs

text: to

text: be

text: financially

text: assisted

text: The

text: European

text: Union

text: 's

text: investment

text: worth

text: million

text: euros

text: about

text: billion

text: U.S.

text: dollars

text: will

text: be

text: made

text: available

text: through

text: the

text: three

text: programs

text: the

text: PEACE

text: III

text: program

text: the

text: cross

text: border

text: cooperation

text: program

text: with

text: Ireland

text: and

text: Scotland

text: and

text: the

text: Regional

text: Competitiveness

text: and

text: Employment

text: program

text: for

text: the

text: province

text: But

text: peace

text: and

text: prosperity

text: would

text: not

text: have

text: occurred

text: without

text: the

text: success

text: of

text: diplomacy

text: says

text: Adams

text: There

text: 's

text: been

text: a

text: war

text: somewhere

text: in

text: the

text: world

text: for

text: every

text: day

text: of

text: every

text: week

text: of

text: every

text: month

text: of

text: the

text: last

text: few

text: decades

text: and

text: all

text: of

text: them

text: are

text: caused

text: by

text: human

text: beings

text: mostly

text: by

text: men

text: all

text: of

text: them

text: can

text: be

text: resolved

text: through

text: dialogue

text: E

text: mail

text: to

text: a

text: friend

question: Who will share power?

answer: Ulster's unionists, led by Ian Paisley, and Sinn Fein,

text: Ulster's unionists, led by Ian Paisley, and Sinn Fein,

question: What has been termed miraculous?

answer: peace process

text: peace process

question: Where is the peace process happening?

answer: Northern Ireland.

text: Northern Ireland.

question: What did the commentators call the peace process?

answer: a miracle.

text: a miracle.

question: The power sharing deal is between who and who?

answer: Ian Paisley, and Sinn Fein,

text: Ian Paisley, and Sinn Fein,

question: What region does the peace process involve?

answer: Northern Ireland

text: Northern Ireland

question: What would not have occurred without diplomacy?

answer: peace and prosperity

text: peace and prosperity

question: What have some commentators called the peace process?

answer: a miracle.

text: a miracle.


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(CNN) -- West Indies cricket coach John Dyson has been dismissed from his job with immediate effect.

Australian John Dyson had been in charge of the West Indies cricket side since 2007.

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) said they were terminating the contract of the Australian, according to a statement on the cricket board's Web site.

The decision comes after recent Test and one-day series losses to Bangladesh, although in both defeats the West Indies were forced to put out weakened sides because of a dispute between players and the cricket board over contracts.

Dyson, a former opening batsman who played 30 Tests for Australia, took charge of the West Indies in 2007.

He enjoyed early Test series wins over South Africa and England but was heavily criticized for misreading the rain regulations in a one-day event with England in Guyana in March, an error that ultimately handed England the series.

Earlier in his career he was appointed Sri Lanka coach in 2003 despite having only limited coaching experience at higher levels.

The 55-year-old was due to lead the West Indies into next month's International Cricket Council Champions Trophy.

The WICB offered no reason for Dyson's sacking but in a statement on their Web site confirmed that the assistant coach David Williams would take over as coach on a temporary basis for the upcoming tournament, which gets started in South Africa on September 22.

The contract dispute means the West Indies will be forced to take a second-string side to South Africa.

The statement added that "in view of the special circumstances pertaining to this tour" the former West Indies vice-captain and off-spin bowler Lance Gibbs had been appointed team manager.

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text: West

text: Indies

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text: be

text: forced

text: to

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text: second

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text: South

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text: statement

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text: circumstances

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text: tour

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text: West

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text: captain

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text: Lance

text: Gibbs

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question: Where is next month's Champions Trophy?

answer: South Africa

text: South Africa

question: What team was John Dyson coach of?

answer: Indies cricket

text: Indies cricket

question: Where was he due to take them next month?

answer: South Africa

text: South Africa

question: Who has been sacked as coach of the West Indies?

answer: John Dyson

text: John Dyson

question: when did he take charge

answer: 2007.

question: What is the name of the former Australian batsman?

answer: John Dyson

text: John Dyson

question: who was sacked

answer: John Dyson

text: John Dyson

question: what did the west indies board say

answer: they were terminating the contract of the Australian,

text: they were terminating the contract of the Australian,

question: When did Dyson take charge of the team?

answer: since 2007.

text: since 2007.