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...three speakers spoke to Joe McDonnell, the hunger striker who last night was described by authorities as "close to death," and declared that McDonnell should not be allowed...
Sean Sands, brother of Bobby Sands--the first Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker, who died after 66 days without food--gave the audience detailed descriptions of atrocities allegedly committed by the British against his brother and other IRA prisoners in the Maze prison, and said that "no man wants to live like that because no dog could live like that...
Other speakers included Elizabeth O'Hara, sister of Patsy O' Hara, another hunger striker who died, and Malachy McCreesh, brother of Ray McCreesh, who also died...
...used to be. Despite a conciliatory letter from the White House, two Viet veterans' groups continued a sit-in and a hunger strike at the Veterans Administration Wadsworth Medical Center in Los Angeles, a city that has become the focus of veteran activism. One of the 16 hunger strikers, a diabetic, had collapsed after refusing food and insulin for four days, and four others have quit. But, vows Hunger Striker Kenneth Van Glen: "We're going to stay out as long as it takes...
...mournful drama had taken on all the predictable ritual of a Passion Play. First came the terse announcement that Raymond McCreesh, 24, an inmate of the Maze Prison, had become the third Irish Republican Army hunger striker this month to take "his own life by refusing food and medical intervention," as the British government officially put it. Then came the rioting through Catholic neighborhoods of Belfast and Londonderry as women banged dustbin lids in the early morning darkness and gangs of youthful I.R.A. sympathizers attacked army and police patrols with stones and fire bombs. At week...