D.C. welcomes 6 Belfast women as symbols of
Lawmakers shun Sinn Fein leader
WASHINGTON -- The sisters and fiancee of Robert McCartney, the Belfast forklift driver brutally killed by members of the Irish Republican Army on Jan. 30, had barely settled into Edward M. Kennedy's office yesterday when one of them mentioned that the portrait of the senator's slain brother, John, hung next to the hearth in the McCartney home in Northern Ireland. (Full article: 721 words)
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