Cable briefs
Fast begins One of Ireland’s bestknown jailed terrorists, Eddie Gallagher, has begun a hunger strike. Gallagher, aged 42, has started a protest fast in ; Dublin’s Mouhtjoy Jail because he says he should be released •after serving half of a 20year sentence for the abduction in 1975 of a Dutch industrialist, Dr Tiede Herrema. Dr Herrema, the head of a multi-national firm in Limerick, was kidnapped in a vain bid to secure the release from prison of three I.R.A. figures. Gallagher’s chief co-accused in their trial,-'
Marian Coyle, was-set free after completing a third of her 15 years term earlier this year.. Prisoners in the Irish Republics normally have to complete two-thirds of their sentences before qualifying for release. — Heart patient dies Poland’s first and longestlived heart transplant patient, Zygmunt.Chruszcz, has died, 39 days after his operation./ Mr Chruszcz, aged 25,. died of pneumonia at a clinic in the southern town of Zabrze. He showed no signs of-having rejected his new heart. — Warsaw.
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