11.  But the outlawed group and its allied Sinn Fein party have balked in the face of sporadic international pressure.

12.  But the outlawed group cleared the way for its allied Sinn Fein party to accept the compromise agreement.

13.  But the Irish Republican Army and its allied Sinn Fein party already have rejected it.

14.  Chancellor Helmut Kohl and an allied Bavarian party declared a truce Thursday in a quarrel over energy taxes that was becoming a major election-year embarrassment.

15.  Ex-IRA commander Martin McGuinness, the chief negotiator for its allied Sinn Fein party, said Britain had only itself to blame.

16.  For the Irish Republican Army and its allied Sinn Fein party, agreement meant giving up any immediate hope of a united Ireland.

17.  Irish Prime Minister John Bruton launched a scathing attack on the IRA and its allied Sinn Fein party Wednesday, branding them fascists.

18.  It also threw out the victories of seven other candidates belonging to allied parties.

19.  Its allied Sinn Fein party attracts a third of Catholic votes in the predominantly pro-British Protestant province.

20.  Kumaratunga, known as a tough negotiator, now must begin talks with allied parties to assemble a coalition government and avoid a hung Parliament.