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Northern Ireland faces March 7 election

Northern Ireland will elect a new legislature March 7 that will determine the fate of power-sharing, Britain announced Tuesday in swift reply to an IRA-linked political party’s decision to support the police. The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, said they hoped a new Northern Ireland Assembly would produce what its predecessor failed to achieve — a coalition that unites Protestant hard-liners with Irish Republican Army veterans. Full Story