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Floods kill more than
600 people
CALCUTTA, India (UPI) West
Bengal state officials Saturday reported
more than 600 dead from floods that
have ravaged the state the past two
weeks and warned that an outbreak of
cholera was spreading.
"As many as 217 persons drowned in
the past 24 hours, raising the toll to 617,
since the floods 'began 12 days ago," an
official spokesman said. "The flood
situation in the state has worsened in the
past 24 hours because of heavy rainfall
that has further swelled rivers in South
Bengal.
"At the same time larger volumes of
water have been released from reser
vors to keep them from bursting," the
spokesman said. "As a result more
areas have been flooded."
Working conditions spur
violent Iranian protests
TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) Police fired
on demonstrators in the Caspian sea
resort town of Amol Sunday and clashed
with angry youths in Tehran and
numerous other cities and towns across
Iran, reportedly killing several persons
and wounding many others.
The violence spread as universities
and schools, factories, government
offices, post offices and railroads were
shut down in a massive public protest
against low salaries and poor working
conditions.
Thousands of passengers, including
religious pilgrims, were stranded for
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"Cholera is spreading. We do not have
the latest figures on cholera deaths," he
reported. The latest official statistics
Friday showed 200 people had died and
"thousands have been attacked by
cholera."
"We are rushing medicine and anti
cholera vaccines to as many areas as
possible, but transport is a problem,"
one official said.
The state is awaiting a response from
United Nations agencies to Chief
Minister Jyoti Basu's appeal for urgent
supplies of anti-cholera vaccines,
disinfectants and medicine.
Officials did not comment on a report
Friday that thousands of starving people
were marching on Calcutta from flooded
areas in search of food and shelter.
hours in the desert when striking
railroad workers stopped Tehran-bound
trains and forced everybody off.
Doctors and nurses in several Tehran
hospitals stayed away, causing panic
among patients, many of whom returned
to their homes.
Iran's national news agency, Pars,
and the radio and television network,
NIRT, were on strike, too, and news
broadcasts were cut.
But reports spoke of clashes between
police and militant youths boycotting
classes or supporting striking teachers
in Tehran during the past 98 hours.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) .Two night law school
students in California found a loophole in the enacting
language for the Equal Rights Amendment and their
research, combined with the political muscle of the
National Organization for Women, led to a three-year
extension of the deadline to ratify the proposal.
Congress initially imposed a seven-year ratification
deadline on the amendment that bans discrimination
under the law on the basis of sex. The amendment
appeared doomed, three states short of the required 38,
until Congress granted the overtime period last week.
Court may
WHEATLAND, Wyo. (AP)
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power plant intend to ask a federal
appeals court this week to decide if the
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will now have until June 3, 1982 to win ratification. The
old deadline. as March 22, 1979.
Catherin Timlin and Alice Bennett, classmates at
Whittier College of Law in Los Angeles, were prompted
by their legislative law class instructor to determine
why a seven-year deadline was necessary.
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SEABROOK, N.H. (UPI) —The latest
group of demonstrators arrested at the
Seabrook nuclear power plant, target of
the nation's anti-nuclear forces, vowed
Sunday to continue a hunger strike until
they are freed without bail.
State police were waiting inside the
construction site of the $2.3 billion plant
when protesters edged their way up rope
ladders and scaled the fence of the
Seabrook plant early Saturday. Later,
another 14 demonstrators staged a
similar action and state police again
were on hand.
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Watergate Committee insisted that the amendment
which he ultimately opposed carry a ratification
deadline.
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him happy," Ms. Bennett said. "He was a constitutional
purist. This (deadline) was strictly procedural. Withoo
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demonstrators were drinking water but
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