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The Daily Itlonmwuth County's Great Home Newspaper VOL. 103 NO. 258 SHREWSBURY, N.J. TUESDAY, MAY 5,1981 20 CENTS Sands9 death ignites violence in Belfast BELFAST, Northern IreUnd (AP) - Roman Despite pleas for calm frmm Catholic lead- Catholic housewives banged out a requiem with ers and Sands' family, three days of mourning the lids of their garbage cfuu for BM>y S*™** ordered by the IRA began with rioting by roving early today as the death of the IRA hunger bands rampaging through the dark streets of striker set off several more hours of violence In Belfast and Londonderry, the province's two Catholic districts of Belfast and Londonderry. biggest cities. "This to about what we expected," a police Hundreds of extra police were deployed in spokesman said. "We arc prepared for It." the battle-scarred Catholic districts of West The 27-year-old IRA guerrilla died at 1:17 Belfast and Londonderry, Intent on keeping the a.m. in the Mate Prison outside Belfast It was rioters from spilling over into neighboring Prot- the start of the Mth day of his fast demanding estant districts and setting off a backlash by the that the British government give imprisoned extremists of the Protestant Ulster Defense IRA members the special political-prisoner Association. privileges It took away from them In 1971. The violence simmered down around dawn, Sands had been an unknown prisoner for and the Protestants were not Involved. The police fired six shots over the heads of rioters in Londonderry. Firemen fought a fire in a West Belfast police station set off by youths Death of Sands evokes hurling gasoline bottle bombs. A bank and a drug store were gutted in other areas of West anger, saddness, page 2 Belfast. Police dispersed a gang of 70 youths who set fire to a portable cabin on the site of the American-owned Delorean auto plant. RIOTING FOLLOWS SANDS DEATH — A hooded youth uses a slingshot to hurl stones at British troops said they came under fire most of his nine years in the Irish Republican from Divis Flats, a fortress-like, multi-story British soldiers, while manning a barricade in the Falls Road area of Belfast, Ireland, Army's Provisional wing, with no notable mili- apartment complex and IRA stronghold with •arlv today. Rioting, arson and gunfire broke out after it was announced that IR A hunger- tary exploits to his credit. But when he died on a barricaded entrances. striker Bobby Sands had died In Man Prison. prison hospital waterbed with a golden crucifix from Pope John Paul II In his emaciated hand, Numerous vehicles were seized and con- be became for supporters of the IRA and many verted to street barricades. From behind them, / other Catholics the newest martyr in their cause youths hurled fire bombs, stones and bottles of - the unification of the Protestant-dominated acid at security patrols. Cheering 6-year-olds BOBBY SANDS Bedell won't invoke British province of Northern Ireland with the watched. mostly Catholic Irish Republic Police reported six arrests and one injury, a his weight had declined from 156 pounds to leu Meanwhile, the IRA's fight for the special youth shot in the leg by police using plastic than 80. privileges Sands did not win was carried on by bullets His mother, Rosaleen, and sister, Marcella senatorial courtesy three other hunger strikers in the Maze. Visitors Sands' death was announced by the govern- Kelly, left the Maze in tears accompanied by said one of them, Francis Hughes, 25, was ment's Northern Ireland Office in a brief two priests S3 minutes after he died. By MARK MAGYAR within days of death after 52 days without food. statement saying be "took his own Ufe by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Two other guerrillas in the 45th day of their fast refusing food and medical intervention for 66 who had declared her government would not TRENTON - State Sen. Eugene J. Bedell, were in less serious condition. days." He had been in a coma for two days, and See Sands', page * D-Monmouth and Middlesex, said yesterday be has decided not to invoke senatorial courtesy to block the governor's nomination of Daniel J. O'Hern of Red Bank to the state Supreme Court But Bedell said he will speak against the Democratic leaders in house O'Hern nomination on the floor of the Senate, and predicted that the nomination wiU be de- feated "I've never taken so much flak on anything editorially and moat of the attacks, unfortunate- ly, have focused on the issue of senatorial say Reagan has budget votes courtesy, rather than on my reasons for oppos- WASHINGTON (AP) - As debate gives way victory. GOP leaders say they expect only one argued that the administration-backed plan ing the O'Hern nomination," Bedell said. would force deeper cuts than those outlined in an "Therefore, instead of exercising senatorial to action, House Democratic leaders are con- Republican to vote against the president. courtesy, I will publicly air my objections in the ceding they can't match President Reagan's O'Neill said yesterday his count showed 175 alternative package approved earlier by the Senate for public scrutiny." lobbying clout and lack the votes to block the of the 242 Democrats in the House standing House Budget Committee. firm, 41 votes short of what is needed. That Bedell announced two weeks ago he would administration's budget cuts. Generally, the budget resolution merely sets "It's a little bit like going into the ring and assessment generally matched the prediction of guidelines for Congress to follow in making exercise senatorial courtesy to block the O'Hern Rep. Phil Gramm, D-Texas, co-author of the nomination because be believes "the time has the other guy has got brass knuckles and all decisions on spending and taxes. you've got Is 16-ounce gloves," said House Dem- substitute budget plan endorsed by Reagan, that come" for a woman or a minority to be named 40 to 90 Democrats will vote with the president. But Democratic leaders have begun focusing to the state's highest court. ocratic leader Jim Wright of Texas. "We don't on the portion of the Reagan-backed plan that EUGENE J. BEDELL have any rewards to bestow, favors to withhold But in a last-ditch move to keep potential would mandate $36.6 billion in budget cuts next Under the unwritten law of senatorial or punishment to mete out.... defectors in line, House Democratic leaders courtesy. Bedell has the power to block the year through instructions to individual commit- August, there will be no Catholics on toe Su- "The speaker (of the House) and the majori- argued that a vote now will lock members into governor's nomination of O'Hern because be budget-cutting decisions they will regret later. tees to trim programs under their jurisdictions resides In Bedell's home county. preme Court," Bedell said. "I told Byrne be ty leader do not have anything except a bunting by that much. license to persuade, and we've been trying with Gov. Brendan T. Byrne formally submitted should have thought of that when he made his Reagan, meanwhile, was working hard to Rep. Carl D. Perkins, D-Ky., chairman of the the O'Hern nomination to the Senate for con- last four appointments to the Supreme Court" varying degrees of success," Wright said yester- seal a victory. day in an address to the National Press Club. House Education and Labor Committee, as- firmation after a meeting yesterday morning Hodes said the governor was "talking in Two dozen congressmen, mostly Southern sailed the cuts yesterday. Although he is not in with Bedell and Monmouth County Democratic generalities about what would happen if the House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. was Democrats, met with the president yesterday at full agreement with the Democratic alternative, Chairman John R. Fiorlno at Morven, the gov- O'Hern nomination didn't move, and In that more direct. the White House, a few at a time. More were to Perkins said, "even if Tweedle-dee Is only ernor's mansion in Princeton. context, he mentioned that Bedell might have to "Am I getting commitments? The answer is be invited today and possibly Wednesday. marginally better than Tweedledum, we are Byrne sent a state helicopter to Sea Girt to answer for it if the Supreme Court seat was not no, to be truthful on the thing," the Massachu- Among yesterday's visitors was Rep. Donald obligated to make that distinction in our votes." pick up Fiorino for the meeting. Fiorino de- fiUed by a Monmouth County resident or a setts Democrat said. "Have I got disappoint- J. AlbosU, D-Mlch , who said he expected to clined to comment on the meeting, and referred Catholic." ments? The answer is yes." vote for the administration-favored budget reso- But Latta responded that "your (Perkins') all questions to Bedell State House sources speculated that Bedell's The House was moving toward votes late lution sponsored by Gramm and Rep. Delbert L. committee has been responsible for a lot of the Harold Hodes of Manalapan, Byrne's chief of decision not to exercise senatorial courtesy today on amendments to a budget blueprint, Latta, R-Ohio. AlbosU said he was "basically" explosion that has occurred in the federal staff, said the 30-minute meeting was "very could have been prompted by the fear that with a final vote expected tomorrow persuaded to do so when "the president agreed budget in recent years." cordial," and asserted that Bedell and Fiorino Byrne would simply nominate someone else for In the Republican-controlled Senate, debate he'd look very seriously" at the Michigan con- In a related development, a $1 million media "asked for nothing." the position, such as former Sen.