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...Republican Army. They blow things up, and sometimes innocent people are wasted. But that's the way with wars; almost never are they pleasant. To argue that the accidental killing of civilians makes an army or a cause unworthy of support is an objection to all modern war. The IRA bombs primarily the economic interests of the British, attempting to make further occupation unprofitable. Certainly they are no more violent than Mugabe's legions, or the guerrillas that fight for the rights of El Salvadorans. At any rate, don't dismiss them as cowards; Bobby Sands proved, as if McSwiney...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland--Bobby Sands, a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the British Parliament, died in the hospital of Northern Ireland's Maze prison last night, 66 days after he began a hunger strike to demand "political status" for jailed IRA members...
...IRA leaders called for a period of mourning for Sands, and announced plans for his burial with full military honors later in the week...
Sands, 27, who was convicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison for carrying an unloaded 22 caliber handgun, launched his hunger strike March 1, in an effort to win political prisoner status for jailed IRA members. The British government has repeatedly refused to grant the demand, saying Sands and other IRA members were in jail for violent, not political, crimes...
...than spend the money in inflationary consumption. Rostenkowski argued that his plan contains provisions specifically targeted to encourage saving. One is a proposal to increase the amount of annual income that a worker not covered by a company pension plan can save in a tax-sheltered individual retirement account (IRA) from $1,500 to $2,000, and to extend IRA opportunities to employees with pension plans who want an extra retirement cushion...