The answers were finally given to Sinn Fein on 19 May 1994. Before passing them on, Reynolds rang an incredulous Bill Clinton to tell him that he had both the questions and the answers in his hand. Clinton was impressed: ‘The questions and the answers, boy, that’s what politics are all about!’ Clinton had been distinctly unimpressed two months earlier when the IRA mortared Heathrow Airport on three successive days. Dummy rockets had been used and no one was injured. But while the incident was seen by the IRA as a valuable morale booster, it was not so received in the White House. Attacks of
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