GRIEVING TOWN SET FOR CLINTON VISIT
Grieving town set for Clinton visit
By Rosie Cowan
President Clinton was expected to meet with relatives of the Omagh dead today when he visited the bomb-struck town.
The President accompanied by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, were due in the Tyrone town by helicopter this afternoon
The Presidential party was due to be met by council chief executive John McKinney who is to take them to talk to a large number of relatives of the 28 victims and survivors of last month's bomb at Omagh leisure centre.
They are then due to go to the town centre where Mr Clinton is to unveil a memorial plaque at Market Street near the scene of the blast.
The President is planning to meet members of the emergency services who battled to save lives after the 500lb blast, which also injured 220 people on August 15, and to lay a wreath at the High Street shops which lost staff in the explosion.
He is also due to receive a letter from Omagh Chamber of Commerce president Michael Gaine urging him to encourage US business leaders to consider the town as a possible investment location.
Speaking last night at the Vital Voices 'Women in Democracy' conference, Mrs Clinton said she and her husband were going to Omagh to "pay tribute to those murdered by enemies of peace".
She continued: "They were mostly women and children, Catholic and Protestant, Unionist and Nationalist, young and old. They were people simply living their lives."
The presidential party will then fly on by helicopter to Armagh.
By Rosie Cowan
President Clinton was expected to meet with relatives of the Omagh dead today when he visited the bomb-struck town.
The President accompanied by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, were due in the Tyrone town by helicopter this afternoon
The Presidential party was due to be met by council chief executive John McKinney who is to take them to talk to a large number of relatives of the 28 victims and survivors of last month's bomb at Omagh leisure centre.
They are then due to go to the town centre where Mr Clinton is to unveil a memorial plaque at Market Street near the scene of the blast.
The President is planning to meet members of the emergency services who battled to save lives after the 500lb blast, which also injured 220 people on August 15, and to lay a wreath at the High Street shops which lost staff in the explosion.
He is also due to receive a letter from Omagh Chamber of Commerce president Michael Gaine urging him to encourage US business leaders to consider the town as a possible investment location.
Speaking last night at the Vital Voices 'Women in Democracy' conference, Mrs Clinton said she and her husband were going to Omagh to "pay tribute to those murdered by enemies of peace".
She continued: "They were mostly women and children, Catholic and Protestant, Unionist and Nationalist, young and old. They were people simply living their lives."
The presidential party will then fly on by helicopter to Armagh.
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Publisher: BELFAST TELEGRAPH
Ref: BT/0356
Published Date: 03-Sep-98
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