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DATE: TUESDAY, July 3, 1990                   TAG: 9007030267
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A7   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LONDON                                LENGTH: Short

MANDELA SUGGESTS GREAT BRITAIN, IRA TALK

Nelson Mandela touched a raw British nerve Monday by suggesting that the government here should negotiate with the outlawed Irish Republican Army in the same way it talked to violent political organizations during the decolonization of Africa.

The African National Congress leader said that no preconditions should be attached to the opening of negotiations with the IRA. British policy is to refuse any direct contact with the IRA until it renounces violence.

Mandela's comments come at a particularly critical time as Britain's Northern Ireland secretary, Peter Brooke, is about to announce the opening of the first talks for almost five years between Republican and Loyalist political leaders in Ulster on replacing the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement.

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