Word: iras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...role in the film version of Ira Levin's Deathtrap, Actor Michael Caine is dressed to kill in a $2,500 Sulka robe and a pair of $300 silk Gucci pajamas. Caine, 47, plays Sidney Bruhl, a writer of stage thrillers who has not had a Broadway hit in years. Then a former student of his, played by Christopher Reeve, 28, turns up at his converted windmill in East Hampton, N.Y., with a murderously good play. In a plot with more twists than a Chubby Checker concert, Bruhl conspires with his wife (Dyan Cannon) to take over the manuscript...
...Hara urged the audience to offer continued support for the IRA prisoners and to help Northern Ireland reach a solution before more hunger strikers...
Sean Sands, brother of Bobby Sands--the first Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker, who died after 66 days without food--gave the audience detailed descriptions of atrocities allegedly committed by the British against his brother and other IRA prisoners in the Maze prison, and said that "no man wants to live like that because no dog could live like that...
Sands sharply attached British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for her consistent refusal to classify IRA prisoners as political prisoners, and told the cheering crowd that in his brother's battles with Thatcher "Bobby always beat her--even in his death...
...share the common view of the IRA; some of their violence, especially that which claims the lives of innocent people, is sickening. But the people of the North have tried peacefully to protest their social, economic and political servitude in the past, and all it has gotten them is shot--as it did in the years before 1970, when the current round of hostilities began. It is a sad fact that there is an IRA. History shows, though, that oppressed people will fight if they must for their dignity and freedom, and the Irish are no different in this regard...