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Drowned Egyptians. Thera's eruption may have had even more far-reaching effects. It is thought by some to have affected the Exodus and caused the ten plagues of Egypt 450 miles to the southeast. Professor Anghelos Galanopoulos, head of the Athens observatory's seismological institute, believes that the three days of darkness that oppressed Biblical Egypt may well have been caused by volcanic ash. The fallout of ash was probably heavy enough to ruin crops and cause famine by making the land uncultivatable...
...portions of Thera collapsed and sank, Galanopoulos suggests, the sea rushed in to fill the void, lowering the water on all eastern Mediterranean shores. As a result, a narrow bridge of land separating the Sea of Reeds from the Mediterranean temporarily widened -just as the Jews making the Exodus were about to flee across it. Shortly afterward, the waters that had surged toward Thera raced back in a huge wave that caught the pursuing Egyptian troops on the land bridge and swept them to their deaths...
Twelve members of the English Department will be absent for all or part of next year. The loss to the Department appears temporary since nine of these men will be coming back, but the mass exodus has more permanent effects for English majors who will be Seniors next year...
...impending report was revealed by Mrs. Ellen Jackson, chairman of Operation Exodus, at a press conference yesterday. They also presented a three-year plan for correcting Boston's racial imbalance and upgrading its schools...
...Exodus program was issued in response to the School Committee's decision Thursday to maintain its ban on public busing to relieve racial imbalance. Some $4 million in state aid to Boston's school system is being withheld by the State Board of Education until the School Committee presents a "satisfactory" imbalance plan...