Pilgrimage to Mecca Draws Half Million Muslims
The Hajj season ends mid Dhu al Hijjah with about 500000 pilgrims at Arafat and the Mount of Mercy as Mohammed's sermon echoes across the plains. Pilgrims then return to Mecca to perform the ram sacrifice and other rites under Saudi authority preserving access and safety for all.
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Scientists Probe Clouds to Improve Short Term Forecasts
NASA researchers using a Convair 990 named Galileo fly up to 45000 feet to identify ice and water particles in clouds with infrared and polarized light probes. They aim to measure droplet size and concentration to distinguish potential killer storms from ordinary clouds, improving today’s forecasts.
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Drunk Drivers Cited in Soviet Georgia Traffic Toll
Reuters reports that drunken drivers caused a large share of serious crashes in Georgia SSR with 455 road deaths in the first eight months of 1971. A flood dam across the Gulf of Finland is planned to start in five years to curb floods in Leningrad since its 1703 founding. In Seoul, overcrowding plagues over half of South Korea’s 93,200 elementary classrooms per an education ministry survey.
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Study predicts exhaustion of world's fresh water
A UN FAO study warns fresh water supplies could be exhausted by mid 21st century without drastic global conservation. It outlines water use improvements, desalination, weather modification, and a controversial three-region population plan by Konstantinos Doxiadis to preserve resources.
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Former Spy Requests Back Pay From Bonn over WWII Contract
In a case from Bonn, Hans Eppler claims 91 000 in back pay from West Germany as legal successor to the Third Reich. He says he was employed by the Abwehr starting October 1 1941 and that his death sentence in Cairo was suspended. Bonn officials doubt any signed contract exists and note many Reich-era obligations were cancelled. Eppler seeks principle beyond money, while authorities refer the matter to another agency. The report also notes a separate WWF funded leopard and cheetah population survey in Africa.
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