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of Whitehall on Sunday. hundreds of supporters of voices heard in the THIS WEEK - week 42,393 of the British occupation of Ireland Bobby Sands, Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone will die.

From all over the world calls have come for the British government, headed by the self-styled Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher to resolve the crisis in the Irish prison camps of Lon and meet the demands of the political prisoners.

The most recent appeals have been made by the Michigan State Senate, the Massachusetts House Representatives, socialist parties in Norway and Denmark, and trade The chant of 'Bobby Sands MP resounded through Kilburn and Despite the ban on marches and 40 arrests, the Irish political prisoners made their streets of London. After a rally in Kilburn, it seems that unions in France, Spain, and the United States.

Last week the Scottish TUC added its voice and appealed for Thatcher to concede. Even Ronald Reagan felt it necessary to his 'concern a DOul the fate COT 'Mr Sands'.

The world is learning what Britain's presence in Ireland really means. For Thatcher, it mattered not that over 30,000 people voted for Bobby Sands in Fermanagh and South Tyrone. For her, Bobby

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