DATE: Wednesday, July 23, 1997              TAG: 9707230558

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A4   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: FOCUS

SOURCE: BY KEVIN CULLEN, THE BOSTON GLOBE 

DATELINE: PORTADOWN, NORTHERN IRELAND       LENGTH:   23 lines

FOCUS: KEEPING ``THE TROUBLES'' ASTIR DESPITE THE LATEST CEASE-FIRE, NORTHERN IRELAND IS A LAND WHERE THE VOICE OF REASON ALMOST ALWAYS GETS DROWNED OUT BY OLD, DIVISIVE DIATRIBES - WHERE THE VIOLENCE IS BRUTAL YET MANAGEABLE, UNDERMINING HOPE FOR A POLITICAL SETTLEMENT.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

A man, at right, tries to restrain rock throwers from attacking two

British soldiers at the start of a riot on Garvaghy Road in

Drumcree, Northern Ireland, earlier this month.

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