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...both the I.R.A. and the extreme Protestant factions are murderers and must be treated as such. If only Bobby Sands had struck for truce talks or had suggested a workable solution, he would have been a real hero. Northern Ireland does not need a Bobby Sands, whose hunger strike was planned provocation. It needs a new peace movement. It needs the majority of sensible Irish to tell the minority of senseless fanatics to stop...
...being French: Let us speak of the forgotten man, abandoned, lost, delivered over to the powers that crush him. People in most places are dying of hunger, of misery and solitude; a whole people was killed in Cambodia, and another is being killed in Timor; the children of Uganda awake to the consciousness of the wretchedness of having been born; and the birds of prey-the world powers-are gnawing on the bones of 2,000 million human beings. Where would the established order be on two-thirds of this planet without the machine gun or the rope, torture...
Sands' fatal hunger strike now appears to be only the prelude to a sustained movement by other Maze prisoners. Three I.R.A. members joined Sands in the three weeks after he had begun to fast on March 1, and one, Francis Hughes, 25, was reported to be sinking quickly. After Sands' death, other I.R.A. prisoners announced that they would take the place of any hunger striker who died. But the British had no intention of giving way, even if, as a spokesman at 10 Downing Street harshly put it, "they drop like flies...
Even if wholesale sectarian violence is kept at bay, Sands' death and the continuing hunger strikes could create serious political hazards in the weeks ahead. Particularly threatened is Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey. Last December, he and Thatcher agreed to a series of consultations on the whole spectrum of Irish-British relations, an understanding that Haughey had hoped to exploit in an upcoming general election as a small step toward Irish unification. Now Haughey clearly has been weakened by the reaction to Sands' death. He has prudently decided to delay the upcoming election date, originally expected for this...
That comparison is far too extreme, but moderates on both sides feel that the British must find some way of heading off a string of hunger-strike deaths. John Hume, a respected Catholic leader of Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labor Party, feels that the British could work out a compromise on the political prisoner issue, allowing inmates some freedom of association and to wear clothing they could claim as their...