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...Ireland's Anguish Bobby Sands [May 4] had a choice to live or die-a choice his fellow militants didn't give the innocent people they killed and maimed...
...Englishman, I say both the I.R.A. and the extreme Protestant factions are murderers and must be treated as such. If only Bobby Sands had struck for truce talks or had suggested a workable solution, he would have been a real hero. Northern Ireland does not need a Bobby Sands, whose hunger strike was planned provocation. It needs a new peace movement. It needs the majority of sensible Irish to tell the minority of senseless fanatics to stop...
Still to be determined is the full effect of Sands' death on Northern Ireland's Catholics, although it has clearly been huge, to judge by the funeral turnout. Says one expert on Northern Irish politics: "Never since 1969 has the Catholic community been so anti-British." Says a moderate Protestant: "Before, it was only the simple, unlettered people as a rule who backed the extremists. Now you're getting intelligent young Catholics who are really committed, and the same thing is happening among the Protestants. If we're not careful, we're going to wind...
That comparison is far too extreme, but moderates on both sides feel that the British must find some way of heading off a string of hunger-strike deaths. John Hume, a respected Catholic leader of Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labor Party, feels that the British could work out a compromise on the political prisoner issue, allowing inmates some freedom of association and to wear clothing they could claim as their...
Filed from Northern Ireland, the column had the vivid detail and emotional wallop that readers of the New York Daily News had come to expect from Michael Daly. Titled "On the Streets of Belfast, the Children's War," it described how British soldiers had wounded a 15-year-old boy when they used real bullets instead of plastic ones to disperse youngsters throwing gasoline bombs. But Daly's account did not ring true at the London Daily Mail. After an investigation, the Daily Mail labeled the column "viciously anti-British" and "a pack of lies," with at least...