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The human touch
I treated Gerry Adams and the members of Sinn Fein in the same way that I treat any human being. What is important in the situation here in Northern Ireland is that we do treat each other as human beings.
-- Tony Blair, after holding the first official meeting in 76 years between a British prime minister and leaders of the political wing of the Irish Republican Army. Quoted by the Associated Press.
SALON | Oct. 14, 1997