GERRY ADAMS UNDER THE GUN

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Last week 1,000 students held a candlelight vigil for peace in Belfast. Similar rallies, attended by both Protestants and Catholics, are now almost daily occurrences around Northern Ireland. Yet the I.R.A. may not be listening and may be steadily moving toward a wider campaign of terrorism. Having in their view given Adams and his political methods a chance, they may well have concluded that a return to a military struggle is the best way to achieve republican goals. In which case Adams becomes irrelevant, and the people of England and Ireland are in for some dangerous times.

--With reporting by Tony Connelly/Dublin and Lewis M. Simons/Washington