Word: hara
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOBBY SANDS and Frankie Hughes are dead now, and Patsy O'Hara and Raymond McCreesh wait to die. Each will give his life for the same reason--to free Ireland of an occupying army of British imperialists. And each deserves every barroom balland that will surely be written about him, for they are courageous parts of a courageous tradition...
Britain's abstinence in the Sands affair proved, for those who didn't already know it, how ill-equipped Mother England is to rule Ireland. We urge Margaret Thatcher to acquiesce to the demands of hunger-strikers O'Hara and McCreesh before the Long Kesh prison becomes the scene of another death. Though English law may not count these men as political prisoners, their deaths will certainly carry political significance, bloodshed that can and should be averted. And by conceding to demands that certainly are not ludicrous--certainly politics is in many ways involved in the prison terms of these...
...carry on the fight. And he was buried in an IRA graveyard next to hundreds of others who knew the same thing, and were right. There are more starving themselves right now, though they know by Sands' example that the British will never give in. Frankie Hughes, Patsy O'Hara, Raymond McCreesh, they'll sing songs about these men, too, and the death of each will bring 100 more recruits...
...construction projects generously support Blount's Old South lifestyle. His version of Scarlett O'Hara's Tara is Wynfield, a rambling 140-acre estate near Montgomery, complete with a 19-room Georgian mansion, a swimming pool, stables and magnolia trees. The bright red hair that earned him the nickname of his youth is now sparse and streaked with gray, but the strapping, 6-ft. 2-in. Blount keeps trim with frequent tennis matches and ski trips to Vail, Colo. On jaunts to visit construction sites around the U.S., he sometimes personally pilots one of his company...
Navy's Joe Murphy battled to his second 20.97 of the season to take first place honors in the 50-yd. free. Murphy's unexpected duplication of his personal best enabled him to eke out the win with Princeton's Andy O'Hara and Harvard's co-captain Geoff Seelen only inches behind...