House nears vote on funds for space shuttle program
Washington UPI reports the House planned to authorize a 200 billion shuttle program as part of a 3.43 billion NASA funding measure through June 30, 1973. Debate centered on costs, with Rep. Aspin urging a one year delay for cost studies while supporters cite 50,000 potential jobs and a reusable craft to ferry crews and freight.
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Sadat to Seek More Soviet Aid in Moscow Talks
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat plans to travel to Moscow later this month or in early May for crucial discussions with Soviet leaders on military and political support amid the Middle East crisis. The talks aim to secure expanded aid and strategic backing for Egypt’s position.
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Golda Meir
Romania
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Meir
Bucharest
al Ahram
Cairo
Baston
Egypt
People's Council
Mastow
Libya
Algeria
Five Die in Oklahoma Tornado Ravages Davis Ranch House
A tornado destroyed a ranch house at Davis Oklahoma killing five of eight inside while injuring three. Among the dead were three teenagers. A dozen other twisters touched southern Oklahoma injuring 12. The scene described as complete devastation with bodies scattered over 100 to 1600 yards.
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Alway
Roy Rogers
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Enid
Duncan
Stillwater
Longdale
Taloga
Police clash with protesters at antibombing rallies on Route 1
Police used tear gas as antiwar protesters threw bricks and missiles during clashes on U S Route 1 through the University of Maryland campus in College Park. At least five arrests followed the violent outbreak tied to nationwide protests over bombing in Indochina.
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College Park
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Georgia State Capitol
Allan
Nature and health foods spark a retail gold mine
Retailers view nature and health foods as a growing gold mine with shops rising from 1,200 in 1968 to about 3,000 today. Supermarket chains are adding nature food departments as the sector expands from $140 million to $200 million, with forecasts to double. Organic farming grows across the East and West, spreading to the Midwest as dairies and poultry producers offer products free of inorganic contaminants.
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UPI
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Fas
Arthur D. Little, Inc
Cambridge
Mass
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Middle West
Arthur D. Little
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Little
Nature Food
Williamstown Macbeth and Bennington double feature showings
The week’s cinema listings feature Williamstown Macbeth rated R at College Cinema, Harte’s Bennington Main Street double feature Female Animal and Man From 0.8.G. at Harte, plus Made For Each Other at Cinema I and Bedknobs and Broomsticks at Cinema II with 1 and 3 pm matinees.
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Offensive near An Loc drives heavy fighting in fourth week
In the fourth week of the offensive near An Loc South Vietnamese paratroopers face wave after wave of Communist assaults backed by tanks and air defenses. Cadres massed along Highway 1 from Phnom Penh to Saigon, overrunning towns and inflicting substantial casualties as U S and Cambodian forces clash across multiple fronts.
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Ina
Hamner
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San Francisco
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Haiphong
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Blacks seize Harvard building to force Gulf stock sale
About 50 Black students and supporters occupied Massachusetts Hall at Harvard Yard to pressure the university to divest its Gulf Oil stock. No violence occurred. police were not summoned. Harvard said divestiture would not force Gulf to exit Angola and would abstain on a shareholder resolution for full Gulf disclosures.
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North Vietnam
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