WASHINGTON - Northern Ireland leaders Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, bitter enemies turned partners in government, concluded their first joint visit to Washington with a celebration of peace with President Bush at the White House.
"I congratulate you for seizing the moment and writing a hopeful chapter," Bush told them.
Paisley, 81, head of the Democratic Unionist Party that represents the British Protestant majority in Northern Ireland, is first minister of the Northern Ireland cabinet. McGuinness, 57, deputy leader of Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army-linked party that represents most of the province's Irish Catholics, is deputy first minister....