7 Days Magazine No 8 December 15-21, 1971 Bangladesh Abortion Meehan Maguire Ireland Charles Fourier

Very rare 7 Days No 8 Dec 1971 

Radical Underground newspaper Bangladesh news report with pictures, Abortion 3 page article, Maura Meehan & Dorothy Maguire shot dead by British Army marksman in Belfast, Charles Fourier most amazing utopian.

HOME NEWS, pp 3-6 World news this week has been dominated by the Indo-Pak war. At home the

British government is faced with rapidly escalating crisis in Northern Ireland,

worsening unemployment figures, the possibility of a miners’ strike; amid petty

difficulties such as the parliamentary question-fixing scandal. On the next two

pages we discuss what the state’s true interest in Ireland is, and report on another

government stress point: the revolt of the students against Thatcher’s proposals.

Also we covered the businessman of the year award at the Savoy Hotel, London -

a dismal exercise in mutual self-congratulation by British capitalists. Finally, the

Mangrove Trial comes to an end. We hope to give the case extended treatment

next week.

CAPITALISM, p5 Take-over battles have been raging in the City over the last few weeks. The bid for

Trust Houses-Forte has been particularly interesting; not only because of the

comin behaviour of the THF board, but also for the implications the finale will

have for what is laughingly called ‘“‘the leisure industry’. We analyse in detail what

has been going on.

INDUSTRY, p 6 The miners threaten to go on strike. Our Industrial correspondent has been at the

miners’ HQ and also down a mine -— in Kent. The blunt statements of militancy he

heard at the coal face left him little time for Orwellian description, and here he

presents the bleak essentials of the miners’ case.

FOREIGN NEWS, pp 7-9 Since the May-June events of 1968 various left groups in Europe have opted for

armed action. This week we discuss the career of the “Red Army”, currently on

the run in West Germany; and we also report on he Pinelli case in Italy — where it

seems likely that the police have already notched up one murder and are set to

achieve another. We also give over a page to Tamara Deutscher’s report on Poland,

after the party congress.

SPORT, p 10 Where do you find bones on golf courses (apart from English provincial ones, ever

popular among the murdering classes)? Who owns not only the largest ship in the

world, but also the probable winner of next year’s Derby? The sports page is in

there, fighting back for the answers.

PHOTO-REPORTS, pp 11-13 The savage conflict currently being waged in Northern Ireland is grimly sybolized

in the fate of two families. On page 11 we show what has happened to them.

Last week we published photographs of the refugees in India. To judge by readers’

letters they created a deep impression. It is pleasant now to publish over the

centre pages just one picture which cuts across the images of suffering with which

we have always associated Bangladesh.

LIFE, pp 14—16 The abortion laws in this country have been officially reformed. But thousands of

woman still suffer, are maltreated by doctors, denied their rights. In this three

page feature we look at the way doctors play at keeping women pregnant; the

methods of abortion that could be widely used and are not; finally the story of a

woman who saw all the worst sides of the present grotesque system.

IDEAS, p 17 We need Utopians — and recently there has been a revival of interest in the most

amazing one of all: Fourier. Italo Calvino describes his ideas.

ARTS, pp 18—20 There’s nothing like the BBC for squashing with one hand what it has already

mauled with the other. Jane Mortimer talks back at Talkback. Also articles on the

dance (how it should be), the affair of the Medvedev brothers, and candid snaps of

Andre Malrau.

SPECIAL FEATURE, pp 21—23 The establishment of a state of Bangladesh has enormous implications in the

politics of the sub-continent. Yet both on the international level and in terms of

the specific politics of the region, much remains obscure. As the fighting went on

7 DAYS gathered together four people who in their different ways have all been

involved in the struggle there. In an extended discussion they review not only the

antecedents of the present situation, but even more important, what is likely to

happen next.

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Size A3 Approx 16 ¾ " X 11½ " ( 42 x30cm )