e Michigan Daily Vol. XCI, No. IS A nn Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, May 6, 1981 FREE ISSUE Twenty-eight Pages Riots continue to rock Ireland RIOTERS CLASHED WITH British police when violence broke out hours af- ter the death of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. This hooded rioter prepares to hurl a fire-bomb at security forces yesterday in Belfast. These riots, the worst in the two weeks of trouble surrounding Sands' hunger strike, have left at least 21 injured, three critically. Nu rses ,union vote expected to end stri~ke From AP and UPI BELFAST, Northern Ireland - The body of IRA hunger striker Bobby San- ds was carried in the rain to his paren- ts' home yesterday and hundreds filed past his flag-draped pine coffin. Catholic youths rioted for the second straight night to protest his death. Gangs of youths played hide-and-seek with police in Catholic ghettos, darting out of side streets to fire stones and gasoline bombs at the armor-plated trucks. AT LEAST 21 people were injured in sporadic rioting in Belfast and Protestant leaders tried to prevent the street strife from spreading. "We:'ll control our hotheads if you curb yours," a paramilitary Protestant group said in a message to Catholics. But the level of violence fell short of that predicted by those who said Sands' death would bring on a civil war. At midnight yesterday the Royal Ulster Constabulary said, "Things have now quieted down." IN LONDON, PRIME Minister Margaret Thatcher stressed her government's stand against terrorism and said she would never grant political status to convicted IRA prisoners, which would amount to "a license to kill. " "Mr. Sands was a convicted criminal. He chose to take his own life. It was a choice his organization did not allow any of their victims," she told a som- ber House of Commons. Sands was elected to the British Parliament on April 9 during his hunger strike. He died in support of demands that convicted Irish nationalist guerrillas wear their own clothes, do no prison work, and freely associate-widely regarded as amounting to political status. The5-foot, 9-inch Sands, sentenced to 14 years in prison on a weapons possession charge after a gunfight with police in 1976, had dropped from 155 pounds to 85 during his fast. "THE CASKET IS open. There's a lot of weeping," said a man who stood guard outside the gate of the Sands' home and identified himself as a close friend of Sands and an Irish Republican Army sympathizer. "He looks like an infant, very small and very frail. It's really hear- tbreaking, especially for his mother and sister. I don't think I could go in again," the man added. Outraged American sympathizers blamed British colonial rule as Sands' killer and plotted retaliation to give lasting meaning to his "fast unto death" in Belfast's Maze prison. WORKERS IN New York announced a boycott of British goods and East Coast dockworkers said they would refuse to unload British ships. "British colonial rule killed Bobby Sands," said Martin Galvin, a spokesman for the Irish Northern Aid Committee in New York. "The Irish American community is now aroused and unified. We are militant." Sands' burial is scheduled for tomorrow at Milltown cemetery. Tens of thousands of mourners are expected to attend the graveside service. By JOHN ADAM The polls closed at two o'clock this morning for a vote which could put an official end to the three-week-long strike of University nurses. Hospital administrators and Professional Nurse Council leaders both predict ratification of the contract by the 1,100 member nurses union. Last Thursday, tentative agreement was reached between the University administration and the Nurse Council, and by Friday afternoon nurses began reporting back for work, ending a walkout that began April 8. THE PRIMARY ISSUES in the con- tract negotiations were to include guarantees of no mandatory overtime after '52 hours of work in a week, no more than two shift changes per week and no requirement to work the fourth of six weekends. Also included was an "economic package." Although officials on both sides refused to comment on the nature of the tentative contract, unofficial sources within the nurses' union said an agreement was made to increase the differences in wages between newly- hired and veteran staff nurses. However, the sources said that no concrete agreement was made regar- ding mandatory overtime, weekend duty, or shift changes. The language in the contract on these issues was in the form: "we will endeavor to," one nurse said. ANOTHER NURSE noted that it may be hard for some nurses to see the long- term advantages of the contract, but that the role of the nurses in work-place See OFFICIAL, Page 17 CATCHING UP ON THE NEWS When classes stopped two weeks ago, the news didn't. Since classes ended, and the Daily suspended publication, a former U.S. president has visited the campus, thousands attended University commencement ceremonies, and the suspect in the Bursley shootings was arraigned and re-arraigned. For a complete roun- dup of the major local news events that have happened since classes ended last month, see pages 10 and 11.