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Profiles of IRA hunger strikers and British govt. response
John Tusa provides brief profiles of the three men still on hunger strike at the Maze prison. Raymond McCreesh, Patrick O'Hara and Francis Hughes are determined to follow the example of Bobby Sands.
This is followed by footage of Northern Ireland Secretary Humphrey Atkins giving the British government's response to Sands' death to the American television networks.
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