From: RFE/RL List Manager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, 2 December 1998 16:57 Subject: RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 2, No. 231 Part I, 2 December 1998 >RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC >________________________________________________________ >STRIKING TEACHER DIES AS PROTEST ACTIONS SPREAD. A >school teacher in Ulyanovsk Oblast who had been >participating in a hunger strike to protest unpaid wages >died on 1 December, Russian Television reported. Some >450 teachers in the area began the hunger strike at the >end of November, and seven of them have already been >hospitalized. Meanwhile, teachers in eight schools in >Khabarovsk Krai have gone on strike to protest back >wages totaling 158 million rubles ($9 million), and >another 6,000 teachers in Irkutsk Oblast have joined >colleagues who stopped work, ITAR-TASS reported on 2 >December. In Chita Oblast, teachers at one school have >called off their 14-day hunger strike after funds were >found to pay wages through September. JAC >
