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...Illinois house vote prompted seven ERA supporters to end their 37-day hunger strike and resignedly toast one another with grape juice in plastic champagne glasses. But after the senate vote, more militant feminists dropped plastic bags filled with animal blood outside the capitol and scrawled the names of prominent ERA opponents in the fluid. Nine women were arrested and led away in handcuffs. Republican Governor James Thompson, whose tepid support of the ERA angered proponents, termed the blood smearing "vile and disgusting" and likened it to "painting swastikas on synagogues...
...being sent to proclaim [the] good news of love, of peace, of joy. And we have never needed this proclamation more than today-the whole world. And yet the young ones are hungry for God. I'm sure deep down in your hearts you have that hunger for God. Do not be afraid. He loves you. You are precious to him ... 'I called you by your name. You are mine. Water cannot drown you. Fire will not burn you. I will give up nations for you. You are precious to me. I love you.' This...
Seven other women, on a hunger strike since May 18, sit in the capitol rotunda for three hours each day. One of the fasters, Sonia Johnson, 46, who was excommunicated from the Mormon church for her support of the ERA, has been hospitalized twice for muscle spasms and an adverse drug reaction, and is in a wheelchair; her weight has dropped from...
...sight to the six-day takeover, the University offers to house student residents of Mass Hall and Matthews North in nearby hotels. The students had complained of nocturnal noise from the drums, music, and speeches inside Mass Hall A PALC spokesman announces that the occupiers have begun an indefinite hunger strike to protest the Corporation's decision to retain its Gulf stock...
Last July, about 90 Haitians died from hunger, thirst and exposure while trying to reach America. Last October, the bodies of 26 drowned Haitians washed up on a Florida beach. Of the refugees that made it to the United States in 1981, 8023 were jailed. Meanwhile, as expressed in a pamphlet by a Boston-area Haitian organization...