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...squad can't help but miss center back Chris Sailer and standout link Annie Velie, MacAusland says, as well as striker Sue Field, goalkeeper Betty Ippolito and co-captain Elaine Kellogg...
Penn's fortunes depend on whatever firepower Bob Seddon can manage to squeeze out of a short line of returnees and a gaggle of talented but untried freshmen. Prominent among the latter group is Keith Omsburg, who scored 45 goals his last high school season. Striker Bruce Becker is another possible key, with Kevin Kinnevy the leading returning scorer. Graduate Petrowski and Eric Omsberg--last year's leading scorers--were pressure players par excellence, scoring most of their goals in the last five or ten minutes of a game so the Quakers will need to find a comparable pair...
Nonetheless, some families are caught up in the cause even more than their sons. Hunger Striker Raymond McCreesh, 24, went about 50 days without food and one day wondered aloud to a member of the prison staff if a single glass of milk would violate his fast. After all, McCreesh said hesitantly, it was only liquid, like the five pints of water and salt he took each...
...them pulled a chair close to the bed, for by now Raymond was partly deaf, and reminded the prisoner that he had made a pledge to his comrades. Then the relative alluded to the first hunger striker to die this year: "Remember, Bobby Sands is waiting for you in heaven." Raymond gave up asking for milk and died a week later...
...report that post-mortems reveal no single cause of death. Rather, the young bodies simply wither away. It is a terrible way to die, bodies slowly wearing out, time and faces blurring. The prisoners strengthen themselves from time to time by recalling the words of a famous I.R.A. hunger striker, Terence MacSwiney, who fasted for 74 days in 1920 before dying...