DID the SDLP's John Hume carry any message from the British government when he recently met with Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams?
It is very unlikely that Hume would have talked to "the men without the lacit knowledgc, if not the approval, of the British and possibly Dublin. Of course both parties have their own reasons for attending Sinn Fein is desperate to talk prevent its old enemy the SDLP from capitalising on the RepubThere is also a lot of discontent in the SDLP. They fear that British plans, to be outlined by Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew after the local clections offer, in the words of were prepared to accept in 1974' (the Sunningdale Power Sharing Executive negotiated by Ted Heath).
Nods and winks
Mayhew has been making nods and winks in all directions in order to restart the talks begun by his predecessor Peter Brooke, which lingered for a couple of years without getting anywhere.
His proposals, which soem to Confused on YOUR coverage of former Yugoslavia is extraordinarily off the point You say (SO 41) the 'the only just peace now is one in which all the republics and provinces of ex-Yugoslavia have the right to seif-determination. But Bosnia also has the right to self-determination. And this presupposes that the Bosnians have the right to defend themselves."
Self-determination is not the issue here. The project of the Serbian leadership is to invade Bosnia in order to link up with Serbian enclaves there, ethniMajor's rocky government would not follow Thatcher