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Martin Bell reports from Washington on the reaction in America to the death of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands MP, beginning with footage of a republican protest outside the British diplomatic mission in New York. He reports that similar protests took place in San Francisco and Chicago and that there will be a 24-hour boycott of British ships in east coast ports.

Senator Edward Kennedy gives what Bell describes as a muted response while New York Congressman Mario Biaggi says he hopes the British government suffers from the negative world reaction to Sands’ death. The White House issued a statement of concern and regret.