Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judge Sirica has handled himself extraordinarily well in this foul corner. With a compromised investigation, a tepid prosecution and deluded defendants pleading guilty and seeking a bizarre martyrdom, the chances of a thorough airing of what and who was involved in Watergate seemed small. Now, perhaps, Sirica will be successful in ventilating the mess at least partially...
...strongest denunciation was voiced by Senator Bulger, who accused newsmen of making a "tempest in a teapot." They seek martyrdom in this "tempest," he said, in order to profit from the campus lecture circuit. Jack Kelly of WBZ news answered the attack by stating, "I have no desire to visit any campus. I spent four years on one; that was fine." If sources do continue to dry up, Kelly may find the lecture circuit is his only recourse...
...membership in an unlawful organization. But the Irish Government's troubles with him were far from over: MacStiofáin said he would starve himself to death unless released. It did not seem to be an idle threat. In the past half century five I.R.A. men have sought martyrdom by continuing a hunger strike to the agonizing end. MacStiofáin was on the seventh day of his hunger and thirst strike when he was carried into court on a chair. Weak, barely able to speak, he sat wrapped in blankets; a prison doctor, who periodically revived MacStiof...
...with three young girls to raise. When her unmarried 16-year-old daughter Marie-Claire became pregnant, Mme. Chevalier resolved that an abortion was essential. Neither she nor her own mother had been married, said Mme. Chevalier, and she had no desire to force Marie-Claire "to relive my martyrdom...
...damn it, want to hang on to their privileges. The fantastic thing is that women haven't managed to do any more about changing this state of affairs. They're constantly making sure everything continues in the same old way because they want to preserve their martyrdom...