Page 10-Tuesday. August 12, 1980-The Michigan Daily
STORM LEAVES WIDESPREAD FLOODING IN TEXAS
Allen limps out of U.S.
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FromUPland.AP
HARLINGEN, Texas - The remnan-
ts of Hurricane Allen, once described as
the second largest Atlantic hurricane of
the century, dealt Texas a parting blow
with widespread flooding yesterday
and dissolved into a soggy mess over
Mexico.
There were only three known Texas
fatalities in the hurricane. Early
hurricane warnings and the orderly
evacuation of at least 200,000 persons
from danger areas were credited with
helping to keep the death toll down.
"THERE'S GOING to be a lot of
flooding," said state meteorologist Tom
Larkin. "A lot of ground in the area
west and south of San Antonio down to
Alice has been saturated."
However, National Weather Service
meteorologist Gary Grice said the
Minorities
speak out
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"higher priority status" from the Car-
ter administration.
Smeal said her organization will have
to consider options outside the two
major party presidential candidates.
"We could work at state and local levels
- we don't even have to support anyone
on the national ticket," she said.
NOW is asking the Democratic
National Committee to include
Minority Reports 10 and 11 in the
Democratic platform. Minority Report
10 calls for the Democrats to withhold
financial support and technical cam-
paign assistance from candidates who
do not support the Equal Rights Amen-
dment; Number 11 opposes restrictions
on Medicaid funding for abortions.
Neither position has yet been of-
ficially endorsed by the Carter camp.
Americans consume more red meat
r than any other nation. Consumption
reached 18.3 million metric tons in
1979-nearly a fourth of the world total.
summer-long heat wave had spared the
state even more disastrous flooding.
"With the ground so dry, it is absor-
bing a lot of water," he said. "Many of
the reservoirs are also down because of
the drought, and they will hold a lot
more water."
ALLEN, BORN 12 days ago as a
minor disturbance 4,000 miles away off
the coast of Africa, killed 220 in Haiti, 16.
in St. Lucia, three in the Dominican
Republic, eight in Jamaica, one in
Guadeloupe, three in Cuba, 13 in an
evacuation helicopter crash off
Louisiana, four in an oil rig off
Louisiana, and three in Texas.
The three Texas deaths included a 61-
year-old Corpus Christi woman whose
body was found with that of her cat in
her submerged car on a narrow coastal
peninsula, a 71-year-old man who suf-
fered a fatal heart attack while trim-
ming fallen trees at his Corpus Christi
home, and a 61-year-old Harlingen
woman who suffered a fatal heart at-
tack at a Laredo hotel where she had
taken refuge.
After its landfall - with winds at half
the speed feared - at 2 a.m. Sunday
north of Brownsville, Texas, the
hurricane bred inland tornadoes that
injured 20 at a campground in San Mar-
cos and caused $50 million damage at
the Austin airport, primarily to cor-
porate jets and hangers.
The worst coastal damage appeared
to be at the small fishing village of Port
Mansfield.
"The town's pretty well torn up,
said Willacy County deputy sheriff Glen
Fisk. "One-third of everything is gone."
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BOATS, DOCKS, AND dockside buildings were left in ruins in the wake of Hurricane Allen, which hit the Gulf Coast Texas
city of South Padre Island early Sunday. The hurricane lessened in intensity over the weekend, devastating parts of
Mexico and Texas even as its winds decreased to 60 m.p.h.
Suicide guide cancelled;
puuisrersje
LONDON (AP) - Britain's euthanasia society, "Exit,"
announced yesterday it would not publish a guide on how to
kill yourself after being advised that publication might land
its officials in jail.
At a somber news conference, executives of the 45-year-
old society declared the decision meant "tragedy and con-
tinued distress and personal suffering" for thousands of in-
curably ill people longing for death.
F "IT IS A TRAGEDY for which our so-called civilized
society should be condemned, but I am personally not
prepared to go to jail," said Larry Hill, 63, a local gover-
The University of Michigan nment official who is acting chairman of the society.
School of Music Opera Theater "I don't believe our booklet would increase suicides
E CENTER among the young or others mentally disturbed," Hill said.
POWER C"They have the means to do it anyway, they merely need the
determination. We are concerned with people who are not
August 14-16 at 8:00 p.m. able to commit suicide unless they are helped."
Last fall, the group, called "Exit, the Society for the
August 17 at 3:00 p.m. Right to Die with Dignity," announced plans to publish a 30-
page guide for people who wanted to know how to kill them-
Tickets at PTP-Michigan League selves, which was to have been provided free of charge to
Noon-5:00 p.m., M-F members.
Viso/Master Charge by phone- THE BOOKLET, written with the help of two lawyers
764-0450 and a doctor, outlined four bloodless methods of suicide, in-
cluding specific instructions on fatal overdoses of pills
4 -; ;Msbi*ut pregvription at-drug stores.
a arrest
Exit officials abandoned their plans, however, when
lawyers advised that they could be prosecuted, and that the
professionals who helped draw up the booklet risked losing
the right to practice.
Since Exit announced plans to publish the guide, member-
ship has soared from 2,000 to 9,000, including hundreds of
Americans. The membership fee is about $7 a year for
residents of Britain, $23 for foreigners, and $69 for life.
THE GUIDE WAS intended primarily for the painfully and
incurably ill and aged persons who are incapacitated.
The society had said that the booklet would be sold only to
members of three month's duration, conceding that such a
rule was scant precaution against its being acquired by the
healthy in despair, including the impulsive.
Most new members said they joined because they wanted
the booklet.
ABOUT 10 members said they'wanted to put the guide to
immediate use, Exit spokesmen said. Some described wat-
ching the lingering deaths of people they loved, and said they
didn't want it to happen to them.
A society spokesman predicted that the decision would
cause a slump in its membership and a major battle at its
annual meeting in October.
He appealed to members not to quit, urging "all who are
compassionate" to lobby British legislators and help Exit's
long campaign to legalieteutianasia.,
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