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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1981
International
Bobby Sands mourned
Northern Ireland rioting diminishes, Dublin youths on rampage
United Press International
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
— Rioting erupted in Dublin
Wednesday but violence all but
died away in Belfast where an un
ending stream of solemn people
filed past the coffin of IRA martyr
Bobby Sands.
The Northern Ireland rioting
that raged from the moment Sands
died of a hunger strike on Tuesday
diminished, following the appeal
of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.
She said the period before
Sands’ funeral today “should not
be marred by any action which
would detract from the dignity
and heroism of Bobby Sands’ sac
rifice.”
But in Dublin, the capital of the
Irish Republic, youths went on a
rampage Wednesday after a vigil
for Sands, setting fire to at least
100 cars, smashing shop and hotel
windows and attacking police with
sidewalk bricks.
There were no reports of in
juries, but a police spokesman
said, “Every store along a 200-
yard street had its windows
smashed.”
From inside Maze prison where
Sands died on the 66th day of his
fast, three IRA convicts weaken-
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ing steadily because of their self-
imposed starvation issued a state
ment vowing they would die be
fore they gave up.
Humphrey Atkins, as Northern
Ireland’s secretary Britain’s top
official, said the three men could
not win their “pointless” struggle.
“I hope they’ll give it up,” he
said.
Atkins-said there was “no way”
Britain would give in to Francis
Hughes, Raymond McCreesh and
Patrick O’Hara any more than it
had given in to Sands’ demand for
political prisoner status.
Sands lay in an open coffin in
the front parlor of his parents’
home. The green, white and
orange flag of the Republic of Ire
land draped his bier. Another flew
across the street, nailed at half
staff.
An overnight IRA honor guard
of four black-bereted young men
was reduced to two, one at each
end of the coffin, each holding a
crucifix.
stone throwing hit the cities of
Londonderry, Coalisland, Cross-
maglen and others Wednesday.
Youths in Londonderry blocked
roads into the Catholic Bogside
area to traffic.
Rosaleen Sands, Bobby’s
mother, her face haggard, said a
few words to friends and neigh
bors at the door. Her mourning
dress was light green, the Irish
republican color.
In London, Scotland Yard re
ported Wednesday the intercep
tion of two more letter bombs,
similar to one addressed to Prince
Charles that was defused
Tuesday.
In the 24 hours after Sands
died, West Belfast’s Catholic areas
exploded in a spasm of outrage,
vicious but not deadly. No one was
killed but at least 22 were injured,
four seriously.
Sporadic gasoline bombing and
But police said after intercep
tion of the third letter bomb they
did not believe they were the
work of the IRA. Police previously
said the incidents were being tre
ated by police as part of the Irish
Republican Army’s reaction to the
death of Sands.
Bermuda strike spreads,
tourists forced to leave
United Press International
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told by their union to join a gener
al strike Wednesday that has para
lyzed Bermuda and forced all
tourists to leave the normally se
date British island colony.
The Bermuda Public Service
Association decided Tuesday
afternoon its approximately 1,400
white-collar workers should not
report for work in sympathy with
the strike, which already has
drawn in most other workers.
The Bermuda Industrial Un
representing government
ion,
blue-collar workers, called the
strike to press demands for a 38
percent pay raise over two years.
Employees of hotels and super
markets, electrical workers,
teachers, dock workers and taxi
drivers joined the walkout.
An estimated 7,000 workers
were on strike Wednesday hitting
hardest at the tourism industry
that accounts for two-thirds of all
revenue for the north Atlantic is
land.
The last tourists left Tuesday,
expelled from hotels that had lost
their staffs. Airlines cut flights
from 10 to five per day and the
island was reported losing $1 mil
lion a day.
The government of Premier
David Gibbons, whose majority in
Parliament was cut earlier this
year to 22 of 40 members, offered
a 29 percent raise. Gibbons is sup
ported by business but the opposi
tion, which is calling for the res
ignation of the government, is
supported by labor.
Strikers held marches around
the principal city of Hamilton all
day Tuesday, but there was no vio
lence reported in the 20-square-
mile island, located about 600
miles east of Cape Hatteras, N.C.
“Bermudians seem to be taking
it all in a typically calm way and
going about their business as nor
mal,” said a local newspaper edi
tor. The British crown colony of
60,000 people has estimated food
supplies for another six to eight
weeks.
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Reagan dispatches
Jolly
emissary to head ru,
off Middle East m
United Press International
President Reagan ordered a
trouble-shooter to the Middle
East to head oft possible war,
but Syria said its deployment of
Soviet-made, anti-aircraft mis
siles in Lebanon was nonnegoti-
able and Israel warned only a
“miracle” would avert conflict.
The State Department Tues
day said Reagan was dispatch
ing veteran diplomat Philip C.
Habib to meet the leaders of
Lebanon, Israel, then Syria as
his personal emissary to pre
vent war between Israel and
Syria.
Habib was scheduled to de
part Wednesday after consult
ing Secretary of State Alexander
Haig. Haig termed the situation
“dangerous and delicate” on re
turning to Washington early
Wednesday from a NATO con
ference in Rome.
Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin sent a letter
to Reagan Tuesday welcoming
Habib to Jerusalem next Sun
day, but Israeli Radio quoted
Begin as saying, “Only a miracle
will enable the diplomatic
efforts to succeed.”
State Department spokes
man David Passage said Habib
would not carry any proposals to
the three nations, but would lis
ten to their leaders “to explore
ways of defusing the situation.
“The United States wel
comes the restraint shown by all
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and we hope that restraint! , e st accon
continue,” Passage said. jember of
But both Israel and S)j jjnce cou
seemed unwilling to chais sjdent Re
their stands on the Syrianj J^s, the s
ployment of Soviet SAM-6ie
siles northeast of Beirut. SAM jolly Part
and SAM-2 surface-to-air m ; a stTenn<
siles were installed last m
along the Syrian border
Lebanon.
Syria took the action
Israeli jets downed two Sy
helicopters that were attack
Christian Lebanese forces
the strategic valley near f/-y y-y
Lebanese capital. Israeli ry 1 “
backed the Christian forces™
Lebanon’s internal
Israel reportedly threfe SYDNEY,
military action by next wed |that give
the missiles were not remwe Vhen Rhe
but Syrian Foreign Minccfc Queensl
Abdel Halim Khaddam rejitwKow an 1
the demand Tuesday. »ding the
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missile issue, there istheiss Michael 1
of Israeli aggression on Let time he I
non, ” Khaddam said in Beia iss the ro<
where he concluded anoil orized ca
round of talks with local lesi ‘The sect
searching for an end to inter pe — anc
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