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...Hunger strikers lose favor
When he formed his government earlier this month, Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald was bitterly critical of the British government. Reason: Whitehall's unyielding approach to the members of the Irish Republican Army who were conducting hunger strikes in the Maze Prison near Belfast. But last week FitzGerald declared he was much more sympathetic to Whitehall's tactics. That turnabout led the London Times to editorialize: "There has been a remarkable improvement in relations between the British and the Irish governments over the past few days...
What was more, the hunger strikers contributed to Irish disenchantment last week by scuttling two overtures toward a possible settlement. First, they dismissed a three-man International Red Cross delegation as "pawns of the British."Then they refused a British offer to "clarify" Whitehall's position on possible steps to ameliorate their treatment unless the I.R.A.'s prison representative could attend the talks. The British could not accept this condition, since it might be seen as recognition of the I.R.A. command structure...
There was also opposition last week to a march by some 3,000 supporters of the hunger strikers from Newry to Dublin, 70 miles away. Reported Justice Minister James Mitchell: "We have received thousands of calls and messages and letters about Saturday's proposed march, and 98% of them have called upon us to ban it." Nonetheless, the Irish government decided to let the march go on, while ordering in troops to guard against any possible violence. As it happened, there was none...
...struck by a trailer truck; in Jericho, N.Y. The son of Big Band Drummer James Chapin, he performed for a while during the '60s with a group whose other members were his father and Brothers Tom and Stephen. A social activist and crusader against world hunger, Chapin often organized and appeared in benefit concerts for environmental issues, the arts, and charities like the National Multiple Sclerosis Society...