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Philippines»Hard Hitto\Im7:5saiinfoltaJCeTyphoon *ts,By VICENTE MALIWANAG arMANILA, The Philippines sjlt; (UPI) — Destructive floods rn spawned by Typhoon Olga ar swept through the Philippines’ pi rice bowl today, submerging arseveral towns and prompting of President Ferdinand E Mar cos to proclaim a state of h* calamity on the entire mam SI island of Luzon. wOlga killed 47 persons last £ week and left more than 25,000 homeless *Eight hospitals in the capital suspended admissions because their ground-floor emergency and admitting sections were under water.Officials said the Portrero dike, 60 miles north of Manila, collapsed Sunday, inundating several towns and rendering highways impassableAlmost the entire province erf Nueva Ecija, 90 miles northeast of Manila, was under water, Marcos said.The Pampanga river, which snakes across the central plains north of Manila, overflowed in several areas after the water level rose mare thanthree yards South of Manila, heavy rains disrupted rail links and caused*• extensive damage to crops and property, is More than half of the Philip-n pines 42 million population ish concentrated on Uuon island s with metropolitan Manila in alone accounting for 7.5 m millionof At noon today, Olga, reducedto to a tropical storm, was plotted about 200 miles west-northwestii- of Manila, packing 70 mile an id hour winds
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Brownsville Herald
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Mon, May 24, 1976
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