The Michigan Daily-Thursday, May 7,.1981-Rages
600 British
troops sent to
quell violence
From AP and UPI
BELFAST, Northern Ireland- in drizzling rain for a 20-minute
Britain airlifted 600 troops of the crack memorial service, at which the Rev.
Royal Welsh battalion to Northern Sean Rogan appealed, "Lord hear our
Ireland yesterday to strengthen prayers and be merciful to your son
security in case violence escalates in Bobby."
the troubled province. A rosary said for the IRA guerrilla
Angry crowds of Roman Catholics included a section in the native Irish
hurled gasoline bombs and rocks at language Gaelic and special prayers
police patrols yesterday night and for "all those who have died in our
snipers killed a Belfast policeman. country over the last 12 years."
Catholics in Londonderry set up defen- Prayers also were offered for "those
sive street barricades. who are sick in prison," apparently a
Thousands of Roman Catholics were reference to three other hunger strikers
expected to turn out today for the at the Maze who, like Sands, demand
funeral Mass and Irish Republican Ar- changes which would amount to
my burial of Sands, 27, who died political prisoner status for IRA in-
Tuesday on the 66th day of a hunger mates.
strike aimed at forcing Britain to grant THROUGHOUT the day, Roman
political status to IRA prisoners. Catholic mourners had filed past Sands'
SNIPERS KILLED a policeman and open coffin, flanked by two masked IRA
wounded a policewoman yesterday honor guards, in the living room of his
night in a Catholic neighborhood of home.
Belfast. A richocheting bullet injured a Sands' imprisoned comrades vowed
9-year-old boy playing nearby. Two to follow him to their deaths if
British soldiers were wounded in an ex- necessary in the war of wills with the
change of gunfire in County Armagh. British government, according to a
The body of Sands was moved from statement issued by Sinn Fein, the
the house of his parents in a procession political front of the mainly Catholic
to the church where his funeral will be IRA.
held today.
Sands was moved in the early Featuring the
evening, his coffin covered with the DITTILIES
green, white and orange flag of Ireland,
while a lone kilted bagpiper wailed the
Irish mourning dirge, "Wrap the Green SEO P
Flag Around Me." 516 E. berty94
MOURNERS FILED into the church
DEMONSTRATORS FROM VARIOUS Irish Nationalist organizations burn
a British Union Jack in front of the British Consulate office in New York City
Tuesday. Meanwhile, scattered violence continued in Ireland yesterday in
the wake of the death of Irish Republican Army guerrilla Bobby Sands.
Reagan budget OK
imminent in Hodse
From AP and UPI
WASHINGTON - With Democrats
jumping ship and Republican holdouts
climbing aboard, Speaker Thomas
O'Neill said yesterday "only the Lord
himself" could stop President Reagan's
budget from winning House approval.
But O'Neill (D-Mass.) threatened to
make the House live with what they ac-
cept - in sharp contrast to Reagan's
approach of selling his budget as only
an outline of spending that could later
be changed to meet the concerns of
wavering congressmen.
THE WAVERING stopped yesterday,
one day before the vote, with massive
Democratic defections to the Reagan
budget despite the strongest pleas of
party leaders for an alternative plan
that would restore some funds to social
programs.
At least 34 conservative Democrats
said they will vote for the Reagan plan
which would cut $50 billion from the
budget, $36.6 of it in permanent cuts
that would be written into law.
The House also overwhelmingly
rejected a move yesterday by the
Congressional Black Caucus to boost
spending on social programs as it
neared a vote on President Reagan's
austere budget outline for 1982.
THE VOTE AGAINST the blacks'
move to restore billions of dollars to a
variety of social programs - such as
food stamps, public service jobs and
student assistance - was 356-69. The
plan also would have rejected the ad-
ministration's across-the-board tax cut
plan in favor of a proposal to provide
more relief to low- and middle-income
workers.
"The course the House is proceeding
on is economically, politically and
morally wrong, and we in the
Congressional Black Caucus will not
support this insanity," Rep. William
Clay (D-Mo.) said shortly before the
vote.
The House was expected to vote on a
second liberal attempt to restore social
funds before it moved on to the Reagan-
advocated plan.
The second liberal proposal, spon-
sored by Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) ap-
peared certain to be defeated, and most
counts showed the House was ready to
give Reagan the budget he wants.
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