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...Laurence McKeown, 24, neared death after 70 days of starvation, his family last week asked authorities to take measures to save him. Only two days before, the relatives of Matthew Devlin, 31, stopped his fast after 46 days, when he had difficulty breathing. In all, four hunger strikers have been saved by their families in the five weeks since the relatives of Patrick Quinn, 29, intervened when he was in a weakened state. So far, none of them has resumed his fast...
...result of one of his own guerrilla bombs. Behind him, at 55 days, Patrick Quinn, 29, had once slipped into unconsciousness. Big-bellied Michael Devine, 27, was at 48 days, gangly Lawrence McKeown, 24, at 41, and then, not too far behind, Patrick McGeown, 25, and Matt Devlin, 31, and more to come...
...Protestants in his shop forced him out at gunpoint. And then he was arrested and charged with possessing an unloaded revolver. No habeas corpus for Bobby Sands, only 14 years in prison. And don't you know that the Irish had their civil rights movement? People like Bernadette Devlin protested--peacefully--the political, social and especially economic discrimination they were subject to in the six northernmost counties of Ireland. And it didn't do a thing, except that the Protestants, and pretty soon the British troops, began to shoot at them. Don't you know that unemployment is higher, that...
...defensive side Charlotte, "Little Gump" Worsley--who might have fallen asleep had it not been for the chill winds--was challenged just four times for the entire 50 minutes, mishandling a breakaway try by Julic Devlin and one by Bernie Lombardo to give up the two Eagle goals...
Paisley's political theatrics occurred as terrorist attacks were continuing. Following a near fatal Protestant assassination at tempt against Catholic Activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband, and the I.R.A. killings of Protestant No table Sir Norman Stronge and his son, an I.R.A. commando scuttled a British col lier off the coast. At the Maze Prison out side Belfast, meanwhile, I.R.A. prisoners announced another hunger strike to begin March 1, similar to the 53-day protest last year that nearly cost the lives of seven prisoners before it was called...