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By GEORGE BOWLES
Dnnorral S|H*rial Writer
On June 30 the clock runs out, at least for the moment, on ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Sometime that evening, according to present plans, happy ERA opponents will gather with Mrs. Phyllis Schlafly & Co. to congratulate themselves on its demise. For reasons which are not altogether clear, the event is being billed as an Over the Rainbow Celebration.
Now this could turn out to be the most premature event of the kind since the Argentinians celebrated their victory in the Falkland Islands some weeks back.
True, at the stroke of midnight on the last day of June, the time for the states to ratify the amendment expires. It is also true that the acts of ratification passed by 35 states will become null and void at that time.
But it is emphatically not true that this spells the end of ERA.
Two weeks later Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-Mass) along with Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo) and Rep. Margaret Heckler (RMass) with a number of other sponsors will reintroduce the amendment in their respective Houses of the Congress.
It is probably no coincidence that the measure will be dropped in the hopper on July ,14—Bastille Day.
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