NATION AND WORLD
Hart and Cranston praise ERA at women legislators' meeting
By United Press International
CORONADO, Calif. — Democratic presidential candidates Gary Hart and Alan Cranson lauded Eleanor Roosevelt and theEqual Rights Amendment yesterday at a historic conference of women legislators who booed Vice President George Bush for opposing the ERA.
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Bush added that President Reagan could not be expected to "dramatically change feelings" about the amendment, narrowly defeated last month in the House of Representatives, after opposing it in the 1980 campaign.
Hart and Cranson, both senators,
reminded the 350 state lawmakers that they supported the ERA and endorsed
the concept of comparable worth —
equal pay for different jobs that require
a similar level of skills.
Bush also said the Reagan administration opposes a proposal by the legislators that would require that half of the 1984 Republican convention be women.
BUSH, WHO CONFINED his speech Saturday night solely to a need to resume arms control talks with the Soviets, was hissed and booed by some legislators from both parties after he said, “When asked if he backed the ERA
Each told the National Forum for Women State Legislators that he thought that Roosevelt had set the law for activism by presidential spouses.
"I booed when he said "nopte" to the ERA." said Sen. Susan McLaine,
R-N-H, who was among those who chanted "ERA now" as Bush was whisked away from the unfriendly audience of women lawmakers from 46
"The women's movement is the most powerful force in our society," said Hart. "I will not rest until my son and I can equal under the laws of this country."
CRANSTON, OF CALIFORNIA, and Hart, of Colorado, the only democratic presidential candidates to accept invitations from the forum, responded to questions on issues that some women said Bush had purposefully avoided in his talk — defense spending, restructuring of traditional work hours and combating poverty in households headed by women.
Each gave answers almost tailor-made for an audience of political women. They wanted to significantly cut defense spending and reverse the arms race, believed a qualified woman vice-president candidate would be an asset to the ticket and said they were among the members of women to top federal offices.
Hart called for eliminating federal subsidies for nuclear power research. Cranston said he would immediately start training and deployment of nuclear weapons.
Cranston said that "Ronald Reagan thinks women should be seen and treated as a separate class to be protected."
The nation's nearly 1,000 women state legislators comprise 13.4 percent of all legislatures, nearly triple their representation 10 years ago.
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Solar eclipse casts shadow across the 'dark continent'
By United Press International
LAKE NAKUKR, Kenya — The raucous squeaking, bonking and chattering of an estimated 1 million pink flamingos slowly died to a murmur yesterday as the last solar eclipse to be seen in Africa this century darkened the continent, once known as the "dark continent."
As the sun waned until it resembled a thicker crescent moon, thousands of pelicans flew to the lake shore, 20 miles south of the coast. They beaked under their wings and went to sleep two hours earlier than usual.
"It it did not get completely dark anywhere in Africa because this was not a total eclipse, the sun is completely covered by the moon. It got completely eclipse," said a spokesman for the Kenyan Meteorological Department.
During the annular eclipse, a fine rim of the sun was still visible even in the best viewing locations on the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, about 400 miles north of Nairobi, the spokesman said.
But even about 80 miles north of Nairobi, Lake Nakuru fell into what
"It was eerie. The silence, instead of the usually inscessant noise from the flamingos and pelicans," said Dr. Patterson. "Who are they, who is an American by birth."
No unusual incidents among the tribal farmers and nomads of northern Kenya were immediately reported, unlike during previous years when workers went home early or legations of witchcraft were made.
"The evening swallows came out, and thousands of cormorants returned to their nests in the acacia trees." she said.
Meteorologists like the eclipse formed over the Atlantic ocean, crossed Africa near the equator, passed over the northern edge of Lake Turkana and ended in northeastern Somalia.
Observers said it was because Africa's last eclipse this century took place on a Sunday and much of Kenya was covered by clouds that it passed relatively quietly, especially usually clamorous like Lake Nakuru.
Freeze advocates focus on Congress financing
By United Press International
ST. LOUIS — Nuclear arms freeze movement leaders yesterday voted to try to circumvent President Reagan by pushing Congress to suspend funds next year for testing nuclear warheads and testing and deploring ballistic missiles
Reagan's only means of preventing congressional suspension of the funds would be to veto the entire defense appropriations bill, said Randy Forsberg, director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament in Boston.
"It's a way that Congress can take action, no matter what the president does. I said Forsberg who also chairs NCA, New York Freeze Campaign's advisory board.
The resolution says: "The Campaign will press Congress to enact parts of a comprehensive freeze, such as suspending government warheads and for the testing and
THE VOTE BY approximately 550 freeze leaders at a conference represents a major change in strategy for the movement, which hopes to gain the support of arms control groups that have been kerry of a nuclear weapons freeze.
deployment of ballistic missiles, provided the Soviet Union halts the same activities. It is widely recognized that these activities are currently being monitored by both countries with high confidence."
"I think we have a good chance of this being passed in Congress," Forsberg said. "It's going to show us who our real friends are."
THE CONFERENCE ALSO affirmed its goal of a bilateral freeze on the testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons as a first step toward reductions in Soviet and U.S. nuclear arsenals.
As its legislative strategy, the conference agreed "in light of the president's failure to pursue a bilateral nuclear freeze" to oppose funding for the testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons, which was the MX Trident II, cruise and Pershing 2 missiles and anti-ballistic missiles and anti-satellite systems.
The campaign also called for the withdrawal of ground-launched cruise missiles and Pershing 2 missiles already deployed, and for substantial Soviet reductions in intermediate-altical missiles aimed at Europe.
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