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After fasting for 62 days, Tom McElwee, 23, died last weekend, touching off widespread rioting in Belfast that killed two persons. The threat of violence is always present, yet the real battle between the British authorities and the Irish Republican Army is being fought these days not in the streets of Northern Ireland, but in a sprawling, gray brick prison near Belfast known as the Maze. There, one after another, I.R.A. members are starving themselves to death for the right, technically, to get the special handling accorded political prisoners instead of being treated as common criminals...
When he formed his government earlier this month, Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald was bitterly critical of the British government. Reason: Whitehall's unyielding approach to the members of the Irish Republican Army who were conducting hunger strikes in the Maze Prison near Belfast. But last week FitzGerald declared he was much more sympathetic to Whitehall's tactics. That turnabout led the London Times to editorialize: "There has been a remarkable improvement in relations between the British and the Irish governments over the past few days...
...call from the young woman's sister in Belfast brought them here. She called to say that in Ulster's unfashionable ghettos the sound of trashcan lid on pavement could be heard again. Joe McDonnell (14 years, handgun possession) had died at the Long Kesh prison after 54 days without food...
DIED. David Weisz, 70, international auctioneer who through his Los Angeles-based company, International Fastener Research Corp., bought and sold the Harland & Wolff Shipyards in Belfast, all the props and costumes of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio in Culver City, Calif, and the Robert Hall chain of clothing stores, which he sold off individually; in Los Angeles...
...Neill of the New York Daily News. O'Neill then had to get rid of one of his flashiest young columnists, Michael Daly. Like Janet Cooke of the Post, with her nonexistent eight-year-old dope addict, Daly lengthily quoted by name an English soldier in Belfast who turned out not to exist. The point should be well made by now: it may sometimes be necessary to use a fictitious name to protect an endangered source, but the source should be real and the right name known to the editor. Editors should be particularly suspicious whenever the quotes...