The Valley Falls Vindicator Valley Falls, Kansas Thursday, January 09, 1992 - Page 1
Timetables
The Equal Rights Amendment was passed by the Senate 20 years ago and 22 states ratified the amendment in 1972. The few words prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender failed to get approval from the required 38 states. Five men were arrested in June for their involvement in the burglary of Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C. The Watergate incident would end with the first resignation of a U.S. president. American Bobby Fischer won the world chess title from USSR's Boris Spassky; Jackie Robinson, the first Black to play major league baseball, died and the baseball season was delayed 13 days because of players' strikes over pension rights.