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...much as $50 million worth of downed timber for Weyerhaeuser Co., gets $11.80 an hour, plus a $6-a-day hazardous-duty bonus. So does Norm Pettit, who came from Coos Bay, Ore., because "this is the only boom area in logging in the county." Jobs with cleanup and logging crews have attracted enough newcomers to push enrollment in the Toutle school district from a pre-eruption 502 children to a current...
Chun presses his cleanup...
Leading the Crimson's awesome offensive attack is third baseman Pat Horne; batting, 640 with three home runs. Cleanup hitter Elaine Holpuch is right behind Horne with a .560 mark and four rountrippers. Even shortstop and co-captain Lisa "Mouse" Bernstein (.571), whom Coach Kit Morris says "could deliver the Boylston lecture on bunting" has provided some power. In the past week. Bernstein cracked the first two home runs of her career...
...Salvador Legal Aid Commission--a non-partisan organization established with the support of San Salvador Archbishop Oscar Romero (assassinated last year for his criticisms of the government)--states that the most recent "cleanup" offensive occured last month. According to their reports, 798 persons were killed in El Salvador between March 7 and March 13, 681 of whom were peasants attacked by government planes and helicopters in Chalatenango and Morazon. Since the offensive began, the government has periodically closed off the area to church groups and the press...
...spilling water over the low, rice-growing terrain, affecting some 6.2 million peasant families. Says one observer of the disaster area: "Much of the land is covered by silt and debris, and can't be cultivated. There are villages where absolutely everything has been swept away." Though a cleanup is well under way, tens of thousands of Chinese are still living in makeshift tar-paper shacks, and millions are getting by on a starvation diet of about 14 oz. of coarse grains daily. Nearly a quarter of the preschool children in the hardest hit area have contracted such water...