Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 2, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sands believes he will die today cart of i Winnipeg free press saturday May 2, 1981 11 Belfast Reuter Bobby Sands believes he May die today the 63rd Day of his hunger strike in Northern ire land s Maze prison says the Man who masterminded the Ira guerrilla s elec Tion to the British parliament last month. Owen Carron visited the 27-year-old Sands in the Maze prison Hospital yesterday in what he described As a last meeting. Bobby was in tremendous pain and is obviously close to Carron told reporters. He said to me maybe tonight maybe tomorrow. The British think my death will be the end of it but they Are wrong Northern Ireland was braced and tense in anticipation of Sands death with police and the British troops on Alert for an expected outburst of Street violence. Local people said the atmosphere was reminiscent of 1969, when civil strife broke out in the British prov Ince. The sectarian conflict has taken violence scarred Short strand set for death of hunger striker Belfast a the streets of Short strand Are strewn with rocks and broken Glass. Children lob bricks stones and empty bottles at police in a daily ritual of Defiance. Seamus Brady a member of the Irish Republican army says the violence scarred Belfast District is ready for the death of Bobby Sands. We re on a knife Edge Here. People Are frightened. But we re confident we can defend our Brady said. Well know within 10 minutes if Bobby he said. We have the Black flags ready. We d rather avoid violence. But we re ready to defend our Brady is not the real name of this Ira member. Sitting in Short strand s Only surviving bar he asked a re Porter not to identify him because he fears assassination by protestant death squads or arrests by British forces. Short strand the area Brady Speaks repeatedly of defending is a tiny roman Catholic enclave bounded on three sides by hostile protestant Terri tory and on the fourth by the River Lagan. I worked Day and night to Muster our people. They Are ready now for anything that s Brady said. Storm gathers both protestant and Catholic ghettos were preparing for trouble As Sands lingered near death at Maze prison. As the storm of violence gathered catholics in West Belfast stockpiled food and Medicine. But Brady said there was no run on stores in Short strand. There s so much unemployment Here that nobody can afford to buy Large amounts of he said. A few loaves of bread and some eggs but that s about Short strand would almost certainly be a flashpoint of any violence. When Northern Ireland s sectarian troubles erupted in August 1969, there were people living in Short strand s dozen or so narrow streets of Row houses. Now there Are about Many fled to the relative safety of the big Catholic sprawl in West Belfast across the Lagan. These Days troops have bricked Over the doors and windows of empty houses in Short strand so Ira snipers can t use them for cover. Members of the Royal Ulster constabulary the almost exclusively protestant police Force come in Here after dark to provoke Brady said. They yell Bobby Sands of the year what can you do with people like i think they la All be out in the streets if Bobby Brady said. I be got children of my own. I d prefer they stayed indoors. But if there s any reaction it will come from the people. All the the City of Winnipeg Public notice notice is hereby Given that in accordance with the provisions of subsection 3 of Section 3 of by Law no. Being the City of Winnipeg private approaches by Law a regular meeting of the committee on works and operations will be held at . On monday. 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Private personalized and professionally supervised the arrest method can be successfully used in your own Home. It takes just a phone Call with no Cost or obligation for you to learn All about arrest technique to Stop smoking. Phone now for free inform t1on or appointment lives and injured people. The Irish Republican army height ened tension last night with bomb hoaxes that snarled Belfast traffic for three hours. Officials said they hijacked seven vehicles and abandoned them on key streets later informing police that the vehicles contained bombs. None did but but police took no chances. Sands a member of the Ira serving 14 years for arms Possession launched his fast March 1 following the failure of a five year Campaign by hundreds of Ira prisoners for special status recognizing their political motives. Anxious to publicize his cause he won a seat in the British parliament last month representing a mainly Catholic area of Northern Ireland. His election while on hunger strike was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the conflict Over the future of Northern Ireland which was created by partition in 1921 and has one million protestants of British Stock and Irish roman catholics. Sands also received a visit yesterday from Don Concannon the spokesman on Northern Ireland affairs for Bri Tain s opposition labor party. He said his Mission had been to inform Sands that in its refusal to concede political status Britain s conservative government was supported by the labor party. He said he appealed fruitlessly to Sands to Call off his fast even at this late stage. Three other Ira men started hunger strikes after Sands and one of them Frank Hughes was said by his family to be in very serious condition in the Maze after fasting for 48 Days. British Soldier runs past Irish protester in be fast yesterday -8938 1311 Portage ave. Maze prison called a living hell Edmonton up smuggled letters from one of Bobby Sands s fellow Hun Ger strikers describe North Ern Ireland s Maze prison As a living hell where prisoners endure filthy conditions and daily beatings from guards. The letters from Jim Mccann 25, were scrawled in tiny script on single sheets of toilet tissue smuggled out of the prison and sent to his sister Patricia Mccartney of Saskatoon sask. Wanted used fur Coats we Pat Cash Winnipeg flir Exchange Ltd. 180 Princess St. 943-2648 Canadian foundation for ileitis and Coli tis Winnipeg chapter. Please note general meeting thursday May auditorium of the Monarch life building 333 Broad Way Avenue at . Guest speaker or. Sidney Truelove from Oxford England. The topic is recent studies in the treatment of inflammatory Bowel Dis the new Chrysler service team Cash Fob any form of by Siler 2141 Logart a be f parking 045 i Block went of Kingbird daily 5 Sal. Noon Mccartney said yesterday the letters report conditions in the prison Are primitive. In a letter written feb. 20, Mccann said our excrement which at first we just threw into the Yard was thrown Back into the cells by wardens often causing bed Ding to be soiled. It became necessary to spread the excrement onto Walls for two reasons. Firstly because the windows were blocked up. And secondly to pre vent the wardens from soil ing our Mccartney said the last letter which arrived in mid March said he would t be Able to Send me any More that would be the last until the hunger strike was Mccartney moved to can Ada last year with her Hus band and Young daughter. The rest of her family still lives in Belfast. Mccann was convicted of attempted murder five years ago and sentenced to 25 years. Presents safety Days free safety clinic that s right Call for an appointment to come in and take advantage of our free safety clinic a Complete safety inspection for your car or truck. 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