Sinn Fein’s Future in Talks Debated

British and Irish leaders anguished over whether to eject the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party from Northern Ireland peace talks after two killings blamed on the Irish Republican Army. Britain’s Northern Ireland secretary urged that Sinn Fein be barred from the talks as punishment. Sinn Fein argues that it is totally separate from the IRA and that it has no link to violence--despite the fact that Britain says they are Siamese twins. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams appeared furious after a daylong debate with the two governments and the talks’ chairman, former U.S. Sen. George J. Mitchell, behind closed doors at Dublin Castle. “We’re trying to make this thing work,” Adams said. “People who have no interest in trying to make it work have seized on two men being killed to try to bring this process down.”