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...Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau said: "One must wonder whether our world has become so barbaric that it is incapable of respecting the lives of God's own messengers of peace." It was hardly the first time it has happened, of course. After a militant Hindu nationalist shot down Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, George Bernard Shaw commented: "It shows how dangerous it is to be too good...
...virtue of his own will. His earthly remains were little more than a husk after a 66-day fast in the H-block section of Northern Ireland's Maze Prison. He was the first I.R.A. member to starve himself to death since 1976, the 13th Irish Nationalist to do so in this century. Sands had failed in his mam aim: to force the British government to grant special political status to himself and 700 other I.R.A. members imprisoned in the Maze. But he had managed to fan Republican passions - and street violence - to levels unseen in the North...
...subjection and rigid racial segregation. Though the H.N.P. was unable once again to gain a single parliamentary seat in the election, its adherents more than quintupled their vote totals, to 191,000, and cut painfully into National Party majorities in many districts. H.N.P. Leader Jaap Marais, for example, challenged Nationalist Andries Treurnicht, the political boss of the Transvaal, and came within 1,500 votes of unseating...
...decline in its popular vote total. Trying to put the best face on the election results, Botha claimed to be satisfied. "We have enough public support to continue undaunted with our task" of limited social change, he told a post-election gathering. But the defection of so many Nationalist voters seemed likely to slow even further the already snail-like pace of racial reform...
Sands, who weighed 155 pounds when he began his hunger strike and less than 85 pounds when he died yesterday, is the 13th Irish nationalist hunger striker to die in a British jail this century and the first to perish in Northern Ireland