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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, February 9, 2000
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Nation/World
British government seeks to strip Northern Ireland of its power
The Associated Press
LONDON — Lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a bill yesterday that would allow the British government to strip Northern Ireland's fledgling administration of its powers this week — an emergency measure meant to prevent its total collapse.
The measure is expected to become law tomorrow once it goes through the House of Lords.
The 352-11 House of Commons vote came after Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson warned that legislators had no choice following the Irish Republican Army's refusal to disarm in support of the province's 1998 peace accord.
The major Protestant party within the power-sharing Cabinet, the Ulster Unionists, agreed to form the four-party coalition — which includes the IRA-linked Simn Fein — only on condition that IRA would begin to disarm.
A disarmament commission's report last week said the IRA had made no concrete commitments, triggering the crisis.
Mandelson, who transferred considerable responsibilities to the Belfast administration only two months ago, said in these circumstances it was clearly foreseeable that the body would simply fall apart if powers were not immediately taken back.
Gerry Adams directly appealed to Prime Minister 'Tony Blair not to suspend the administration's powers, warning it would render any start to IRA disarmament impossible. But the Cabinet's senior Catholic minister, Seamus Mallon, warned that the looming suspension could prove permanent.
He cited his personal experience in Northern Ireland's only previous attempt to share power between Protestants and Catholics, a Cabinet that collapsed in 1974.
Politicians then had hoped that the Cabinet would soon resume operations, he recalled. "It was resumed," he said. "It took one quarter of a century to resume it."
Clinton bars genetic discrimination
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Responding to fears that advances in medical research could be abused by employers and others, President Clinton barred federal agencies yesterday from discriminating against their employees on the basis of genetic tests.
Clinton expressed his amazement at the rapid progress that science had made in understanding human genetics, and he said that it was time to consider the consequences.
"This extraordinary march of human understanding imposes on us a profound responsibility to make sure that the age of discovery can continue to reflect our most cherished values," he told an American Association for the Advancement of Science audience.
In addition to the order, Clinton supported the pending bills, which would prohibit all employers from refusing to hire people at risk for health problems and insurers from refusing to sell them coverage.
The president said concerns about the use of genetic information could discourage people from seeking crucial tests that would improve their lives.
"If we do not protect the right to privacy, we may actually impede the reach of these breakthroughs in the lives of ordinary people, which would be a profound tragedy," he said.
Supporters said they hoped Clinton's action on behalf of federal workers would focus attention on the need to take similar steps to protect private-sector employees.
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