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Less than two hours before Bobby Sands died last night, the Cambridge City Council voted 7-0 to urge the British Parliament to grant "political status" to Sands and other hunger-striking Irish Republican Army prisoners...
...council stated, in a resolution introduced by Councilor Leonard J. Russell and passed without debate, that ending Sands' hunger strike "may be the last chance for the British parliament to prevent a Civil War in Ireland...
Sands died at 8:17 p.m. EDT during the 66th day of his hunger strike, after having entered a coma the day before...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland--Bobby Sands, a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the British Parliament, died in the hospital of Northern Ireland's Maze prison last night, 66 days after he began a hunger strike to demand "political status" for jailed IRA members...
Sands, 27, who was convicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison for carrying an unloaded 22 caliber handgun, launched his hunger strike March 1, in an effort to win political prisoner status for jailed IRA members. The British government has repeatedly refused to grant the demand, saying Sands and other IRA members were in jail for violent, not political, crimes...