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BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Hard-liners on both sides won Northern Ireland's election, final results confirmed Friday, setting the stage for a major diplomatic push to forge a Catholic- Protestant administration of bitter enemies.
Hard-line Protestants of Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party finished first with 36 seats in the 108-member Northern Ireland Assembly, ahead of the major Catholic-backed party, Sinn Fein, which won 28 seats.See the full content of this document
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Hard-Liners Win Assembly in N. Ireland
Trailing far behind were moderate Protestants and Catholics -- who championed the Good Friday peace accord of 1998 and led a power- sharing administration that collapsed 4 1/2 years ago amid incessant Pr...
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