NATION AND WORLD
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Soviet people ignore official holiday
By United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union yesterday celebrated Constitution Day, a holiday that went virtually unmarked by citizens but was used to reaffirm the state's Western governments of failing to protect fundamental human rights.
A cold drizzle fell on the red flags and banners that have draped the city since Wednesday to mark the seventh anniversary of the adoption of a new constitution, which replaced the previous document enacted in 1936 under Josef Stalin.
SOVIETS WENT ABOUT their usual Sunday business of shopping
and going to restaurants or movies bemoaning the fact that this year the holiday did not entitle them to a day off work. Some shops advertised "Holiday Zebras," but even they did not offer extra goods or hard-to-find items.
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"It's just another day, no one celebrates" one young woman said. "It's not even a break from work this year."
When the holiday does fall in the middle of the week, workers are given the day off but must make it up during the weekend.
masters," or "The holiday of Soviet democracy."
Each contrasted the wealth of citizens's rights under the socialist system with what was described as the lack of basic freedoms in the capitalist West.
"THE CONSTITUTION OF THE U.S.S.R. offers Soviet citizens rights and freedoms about which people in capitalist countries can only dream," the Communist daily newspaper Pravda said.
"The our constitution is permeated with social justice, it does not simply declare the rights of Soviet citizens, but also guarantees them," said the youth newspaper, Komsomolskaya Praveda.
The newspaper added that unlike in the West, the Supreme Soviet, or parliament, is run by workers. The legislative body consists of two chambers with equal legislative rights, elected for a term of five years. Each has 750 members.
"In the Supreme Soviet, 35.2 percent of the deputies are workers," the newspaper said. "In the U.S. Senate there are no workers, every fourth senator is a millionaire."
The Soviet constitution, adopted in April 1978, stresses economic rights, such as housing, education, employment and medical care, but provides no mechanism by which a citizen can challenge a law's constitutionality.
Lightning kills nine soccer players in Kenya
By United Press International
NAIROB, Kenya — Lightning struck a clubhouse where a group of soccer players had sought shelter from a rainstorm, killing nine youths and injuring nine in western Kenya, hospital sources said yesterday.
The incident occurred Saturday at
Ekeburo High School near the town of Kisi, about 15 miles from the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya, is known for fatal lightning strikes.
"It was a tragedy," said a Nyairia district hospital spokesman. "Those who survived the attack have happened. They don't remember."
The spokesman said a heavy downpour interrupted a soccer match between two teams at the high school and the players sought shelter in a makeshift clubhouse that had an iron roof.
He said four students at the school, 250 miles north of nairobi, were pronounced dead at the scene. Four youths were pronounced dead on
arrival at the hospital and another died a few hours after being admitted. The dead ranged in age from 13 to 22 years old and it was not immediately known how many of the patients were students at the school.
The remaining nine were listed in satisfactory condition, suffering from minor burns and shock.
Filipinos answer call for non-violent march
By United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Businessmen, professionals and thousands of students and workers marched together yesterday, beeding a call from Cardinal Jaime Sin, archbishop of Manila, for nonviident protests against President Ferdinand Marcos.
As many as 20,000 people peacefully occupied a traffic circle in a suburb where soldiers and police dispersed a rally 10 days after opening off street battles that left one person dead and 67 injured.
Sin, who last week called for the demonstration in an unprecedented challenge to Marcos, called for peace and reconciliation in a harmless before some 5,000 people at Dominga Church before the rally.
"WHEN THE EYES of our people and of the world are upon us remain faithful to the great and noble history of Santo Domingo, to this sacred shrine of peace and
forgiveness and reconciliation." Sin urged. He did not join the march.
Marcos accused Sin of fanning "the flames of rebellion" and threatened to arrest the march leaders earlier this week, but abruptly reversed himself Saturation authorized the demonstration.
About 1,000 riot police and six fire trucks stood by three blocks from the rotunda but out of the sight of marchers. Only a handful of traffic police were visible and no incidents were reported.
Scores of industrialists, professionals, and politicians joined the sea of red and yellow banners of militant student and labor groups in the rule-long march to the White House, a demonstration with the leetist and moderate demonstrators for the first time.
"WE HAVE NOT married each other. We have a date this afternoon," said Agapito Aquino, the brother of slain opposition leader Benigno Aquino
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