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While millions of people on this planet are crying out for something to eat, the U.S. satisfies its selfish hunger for prestige. Worse, it does it by unleashing a vehicle with terrifying military capabilities...
True enough. But death had come at last to convicted I.R.A. Terrorist and Hunger Striker Robert (Bobby) Gerard Sands, 27, by virtue of his own will. His earthly remains were little more than a husk after a 66-day fast in the H-block section of Northern Ireland's Maze Prison. He was the first I.R.A. member to starve himself to death since 1976, the 13th Irish Nationalist to do so in this century. Sands had failed in his mam aim: to force the British government to grant special political status to himself and 700 other I.R.A. members imprisoned...
Britain's abstinence in the Sands affair proved, for those who didn't already know it, how ill-equipped Mother England is to rule Ireland. We urge Margaret Thatcher to acquiesce to the demands of hunger-strikers O'Hara and McCreesh before the Long Kesh prison becomes the scene of another death. Though English law may not count these men as political prisoners, their deaths will certainly carry political significance, bloodshed that can and should be averted. And by conceding to demands that certainly are not ludicrous--certainly politics is in many ways involved in the prison terms of these...
Cocaine, one of the most popular and most expensive illicit drugs sold in the U.S., derives from the coca plant which grows mainly in Peru and Bolivia. For centuries, highland Indians have chewed leaves of the coca plant as a mild stimulant, to stave off hunger and drowsiness. Although this use continues, Bolivia now produces four times more coca leaf than can be consumed locally...
Sands, who weighed 155 pounds when he began his hunger strike and less than 85 pounds when he died yesterday, is the 13th Irish nationalist hunger striker to die in a British jail this century and the first to perish in Northern Ireland