5,000 Die As Dam Bursts Program — and His Presidency
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So Favy Texas Disaster Ku Klux Klan Is Halted GHO Washed Out Northern Ireland Notes Ten Years of Violence Not as Bad as Expected Before Reaching Capitol Two Rounds To Be Played Page 11 Page 16 Page 2 Page 4 iiaitrljfatfr Clear Tonight,, Sunny Tuesday Datallt on paqo 2 Travel Plans Vpl, XCVIII, No. 266 — Manohoater. Conn.. Monday.. Auauat 13.1979 • A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 • 20t Single Copy • ISO Home Delivered WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi dent Carter, still an unannounced candidate for re-election, will take the White House show on the road over the next several weeks to build support for his energy 5,000 Die as Dam Bursts program — and his presidency. tarter, taking advantage of the August congressional recess, 200 plans to embark Friday at St. CHINA re been cast Paul, Minn., on a week-long *s of "Mary Mississippi River journey aboard r India Toll May Climb A Story of the Delta Queen for a working PAKISTAN hour drama vacation with bis family. 1 for NBC. The colorful trip on the historic ■\ NEW DELHI, India (UPI) - A and from other nearby centers unof Former Morvi Mayor Mahanad ¥hich ciilml- paddlewfaeel, which will make dam swollen by two days of torren ficially put the death toll at 5,000,” Jewsani told the Indian news agency rth of Jesus stops in Minnesota, Wisconsin, tial rains burst open across the Express said. 60 percent of the homes in the area northwestern India, washing out appeared to have been destroyed. ilehem, will Iowa and Missouri before winding Twenty Morvi policemen were residents of a town and nearby during the up in St. Louis, was expected to washed away from their homes and “ Bodies are lying everywhere on village and killing as many as 5,000 . It is being d n w crowds along the banks. On parents spoke of watching their both sides of the submerged town and people, reports from the region said tion in Isra- Saturday, there probably will be a children being carried off by the the nearby areas,” he said. today. celebraUoo aboard the boat to floods, their cries for help k e r h a s mark Rosalynn Carter’s S2nd Ahmodabad Fifty bodies were spotted in one The Indian news agency, reporting overwhelmed by the noise of the tur iro upcoming birthday. Hindu temple in a densely populated ★ from the state capital of Ahmedabad bulent waters. enator” and Carter has made several moves area of Morvi and witnesses said it 300 miles north of Bombay, said the a r d s .” Blast in the last few weeks, purging his Reporters who searched the area appeared more victims were trapped essional act- Cabinet and reshuffling top aides town Morvi and a nearby village Sunday evening said that with 12 feet in the building. were engulfed by flood waters of water still in Morvi, more than the musical at the White House and on the The agency said 250 bodies had “ within minutes” after the dam half the houses have collapsed or ffuckleberry Carter-Mondale committee, been taken to morgues by Sunday cracked Saturday. been severely damaged. readying his staff for the expected night and many more casualties were late-fall announcement of his “ At least 500 to 1,000 people are expected. decision to seek re-election. I M D I A The Press Trust of India, reporting feared to have died in Morvi town But in the meantime, he will from the Gujarat state, capital of Water behind the dam was 15 feet and a village situated downstream take a number of ‘‘presidential” • Arabian Saa Ahmedabad, said the town of Morvi above normal when it cracked in from the Manchu dam,” a Gujarat trips with twin purposes: to urge was engulf^ by the flood waters several places from pressure built up state minister was quoted as saying. the American people to pressure “within minutes” after the dam over two days of heavy rainfall, the liggest roles A flood unleased by a dam break in the west Indian state of Congress on b ^ lf of his energy cracked. The surging waters swept news agency said. ter’s daugb- package, and to give his populari Gujarat killed an estimated 1,000 persons and buried a town But the Indian Express newspaper over some two-story homes as it It .said Uu'ee senior officials in itte D avis in ty polls a shot in the arm. under more than 14-feet of water, the Press Trust of India put the casualty toll much higher. rushed through Morvi and flattened Morvi were washed away by the wall :ret of Hai^ reported Sunday. (UPI map) “ Reports from our correspondent the village downstream. of water that engulfed the town. A rquette milieu of the Beirut Ambush improvisa- BEIRUT, Ubanon (UPI) - The comples in Iraqi ambassador to Lebanon, -e b w par- Dents Move to Accept State Pacts Abdel Hussein Muslem, was wounded today when gunmen raked his car with machinegun By MARK A. DUPUIS Qjnnecticut.;’ ever agreement with the state. expected the contract settlements tracts expired June 30 but were fire as he drove up to his embassy HARTFORD (UPI) - The Robertson said an expected down “ Our membership ratified it and for the more than 40,000 state extended indefinitely by the on Beirut's seaside highway. Democratic-controlled Legislature turn in the economy would make the we expect the governor to have the employees to cost $18 million more Legislature. Beirut's stateowned radio said today moved toward quick accep pacts too expensive while the state Legislature ratify It," he said. than budgeted. 'Die 12 bargaining units represen-. Muslem, bis driver and his tance of the first batch of state will face hefty cost increases Meanwhile, a private watchdog l i e CPEC said those costs will es ting more than 20,000 remaining state bodyguard were wounded in the employee contracts despite charges because of the pacts but less money group predicted the cost of the con calate to 3128 million next year while workers have not yet reached con ambush 100 yards from the em by some Republicans that the pacts with which to pay for the hikes. tracts could mean major tax in revenues from the sales and gasoline tract agreements. H ose pacts will bassy. were too expensive. Rep. Gardner Wright, DBristoI, creases for Connecticut residents taxes will be less and the state will be taken up by the Legislature later. Muslem was shot in‘ the back By a voice vote the House approved chairman of the Appropriations Com next year. have to boost taxes to pay for the con Lawmakers had planned to take up and legs. “ Thank God his injuries the first of the .10 contracts before a mittee, said that a recession may be The Connecticut Public Expen tract settlements. the pacts when they met in special are not serious,” an embassy of special session of the Legislature in the offing and present problems, ditures Council said that while Gov. The agreements taken up today session two weeks ago, however, put ficial said. ” ^ t he is in the with a resounding “ yea” vote from “ but that doesn't mean you can un Ella Grasso’s administration has in covered 18,771 of the state’s 44,000 off action because none of the hospital.” the Democratic side drowning out derpay your state employees.” dicated surplus funds in this year’s employees including college agreements had been ratified by the Bielnit Radio said unidentified the "nays' from the GOP side of the Union leaders also expected quick budget' will cover the higher-than- professors, clerks, social workers, unions. gunmen fired a rocket-propelled aisle. ratification of the pacts. expected cost of the pacts, no men parking lot police and hospital The contracts include a 7 percent grenade at Muslem’s car as it ap "I would agree with everyone here Jerome Brown, director of District tion has been made of how the state employees. pay increase, additional pay raises proached the Iraqi Embassy that state employees deserve an in 1199 of the New Eingland Hospital and will pay the even-higher costs of pay The contracts retroactive to July 1 for those who haven’t had increases POTI building at 8:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. crease,” said Rep. Philip Robertson, Health Care Workers Union, waited increases and benefits next year. are expected to cost 393.7 million in in two years, improved dental and EDT). Then they riddled the car R-Cheshire. “ But our major outside the House for the vote on the Mrs. Grasso’s budget chief, higher pay and fringe benefits over a health insurance benefits, and an ad with machinegun fire, the radio responsbility is to the people of pact negotiated by his union, its first- Anthony Milano, has said the state two-year period. State employee con ditional two days of vacation for said. employees hired after July 1,1977 Viet Attacks U N G SON, Vietnam (UPI) - Idaho Firefighters Vietnamese border officials ad mit they were surprised by the size of the Chinese invasion of Vietnam last winter, but say they Get Weather Break will be ready for what many view as the inevitable next attack. BOISE, Idaho (UPI) — The army fire inside the perimeter so we’ll still The weather had been hot and dry Vi Gia Le, a member of the of firefighters battling the vast have to go in and mop it up.” since the start of the blaze. governing council of Lang Son Morter Creek blaze for three weeks Leicht declined to predict a control Two other major central Idaho 9PEN province, 120 miles northeast of in Idaho’s primitive area finally got a Hanoi, said Vietnamese military date, “ a day on which we can pack up forest fires — one at Ship Island and break from the weather and is forces on the border have been and go home.