Ms Kidman broke down when telling reporters of the pressure she and her husband, Tom Cruise, suffered in the 18-month filming schedule. NICOLE KIDMAN, the star of Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut, broke her silence on the project yesterday to call it "almost pornographic", saying she did things on camera for Kubrick she would have done for no other director. Governments had been forced to deal with "unsavoury characters" in the past.. Democratic parties are part of the solution and not part of the problem." He described it as "perverse" that the Ulster Unionists were being asked to take one more risk for peace on the good faith of the IRA.Mr Major, who initiated the peace process when he was in office, told the Commons that making peace could be a "messy business".

"I do not think that there are two meanings to the word peace," he said.John Major, the former prime minister, said: "We must not turn logic on its head. That would carry with it the danger of creating a mafia state and it would also retain, if only for a future generation, the option of using violence to finish the job."To take a gamble on the present agreement would place an "enormous strain on society" but on Unionism in particular, he said.John Hume, leader of the SDLP, denied that people of Northern Ireland expected different things when they voted for the Good Friday Agreement. If that was in the Bill it would go a long way to making it acceptable. But it is not."Mr Trimble accused republicans of failing to move on the issue of decommissioning because they still had hopes of "bringing the entire republican movement into the heart of the Government.

It was unfair because if Sinn Fein broke its obligations then everyone in the executive was ejected from office. "The innocent are punished along with the guilty and the democrats are treated as if they were indistinguishable from the terrorists," said Mr Trimble."The fair response is that the offending party should be removed. For that is what the Government now proposes."He condemned the so-called failsafes as "flawed and unfair". It's about taking an existing and active terrorist organisation into government. "Our reluctance will be portrayed by some as an unwillingness to share in an administration with Catholics or nationalists. This is untrue."He said his party did not even have an "absolute objection" to sitting down with past terrorists "Our problem isn't with former terrorists.

"These are true failsafes that avoid a fudge," said Mr Mackay. The only way to get round the lack of trust on both sides was to provide "copper-bottomed guarantees in law".Mr Trimble said the Prime Minister knew that Unionists were "reluctant" to take part in an executive with Sinn Fein in advance of decommissioning. That cannot be fair and equitable," he said.The opposition also wanted a halt to prisoner releases if any paramilitary group failed to decommission - to give an assurance to republicans that there would be loyalist decommissioning as well. Those who have done no wrong and have fulfilled their obligations are being punished in exactly the same way as those who fail to fulfil their obligations by not decommissioning. He demanded that Sinn Fein should be automatically excluded from the executive if the IRA failed to decommission."I have never known a situation before where everybody is punished equally. my Unionist friends to sit in a devolved executive with ministers who represent paramilitaries that haven't begun to decommission is a very tall order," he said.

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