Czechs Hope to Be Home Soon
Talks in Moscow enter third day with Czech leaders Dubcek and Svoboda involved. Rumors of a near compromise on the Czechoslovak crisis surface as Soviet allies’ leaders may join. Moscow police guard Red Square after protests and a missing 17 year old tied to the Slovak Communist Party prompts concern.
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London
AAP Reuter
Nada Bilak
Slovak Communist Party
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Vasil Bilak
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Voluntary Services
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England
French H-test draws protests from Japan and New Zealand
France detonated its first hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific over the weekend prompting immediate protests from Japan and New Zealand. The report notes international concern and reactions across the region.
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France
South Pacific
Japan
New Zealand
Canberra tourist guide to appear daily during holidays
The Canberra Times will publish a comprehensive guide to ACT tourist attractions and public facilities each day until September 9 to help visitors during school holidays. Today the feature runs on Page 12.
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Canberra Times
Battle near Tam Ky leaves 177 dead in eight hours
US troops and helicopter gunships fought North Vietnamese forces west of Tam Ky for eight hours killing 177. Reports said gunships did most of the killing as Viet Minh positions were pounded. Separate skirmishes near Duc Lap and Da Nang area yielded light Allied casualties.
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Tam Ky
South Vietnam
Duc Lap
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Chu Lai
Fragmentary Late News Item From Silent Page
Incomplete OCR text shows garbled phrases about a late news update. It mentions names and scattered terms like Barack Borie and babies but lacks coherent facts, dates, or events to confirm a clear report or outcome.
Protests Mount Across Australia Over Czechoslovakia Invasion
Weekend protests swept Australia after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. In Sydney about 1000 communists condemned the invasion while 2000 Czech migrants in Hyde Park urged annual captive nations week. A silent march of 2000 Czechoslovaks along Martin Place followed by Mass at St Marys Cathedral. Cardinal Gilroy urged prayers for Czechoslovakia. Melbourne saw 2000 Czechs call to cut diplomatic ties with Russia. Brisbane hosted a 400-strong rally in Centenary Place with Czech, Polish, Hungarian participants. Hobart urged severing economic ties, with 750 demonstrators pressing for action. Calls spread for Prime Minister Gorton to lead actions and bar Warsaw Pact ships from Australian ports.
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Soviet Union
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Communist Party of Austria
Iron Curtain
Hyde Park
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GPO
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St Mary's Cathedral
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Brisbane
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Safe in Vienna evacuees reach safety in Europe
A British High Commission spokesman in Prague said Dr and Mrs SN H Fisher of Deakin arrived in Vienna on a US Embassy charter to evacuate Americans. Dr Fisher also reported that Dr K Campbell of Campbell, a lecturer at AN, was on the same train. In Sydney, a water polo team member’s mother said the players have reached Frankfurt, West Germany, safely.
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Stan McCabe dies in cliff fall at Beauty Point home
Australian cricket great Stan McCabe, 58, died after accidentally falling from a 20 foot cliff behind his Beauty Point residence while disposing of rubbish. Police say he slipped and fell into rocky pools near the water. his son Geoffrey found him at 4.45 pm. He was taken to hospital and declared dead on arrival. The TRIBUTES back page notes his Sydney sports store proprietor role.
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Geoffrey
Ham picks up Czech radio in Australia
An Australian amateur radio operator Mr F Kounal from Ainslie heard a Czech Slovak free radio broadcast on a small ex army receiver at 3 40 pm on Saturday. The station called itself the legal transmitter of the Free Czechoslovak Radio and the voice of the true government. A news item noted the disbanding of the Czechoslovak Soviet Friendship Association. A tape was made and sent to the National Library. An Adelaide listener Mr A Masse and his wife spent 18 minutes listening to the broadcast urging unions to refuse to port or ship belonging to Communist bloc nations occupying Czechoslovakia.
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Ainslie
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Czechoslovakia
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Kousal
Prague Radio
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Adelaide
Free World
South Australia
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Communist Party
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Danube
Slovakia
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Czrchoslovak
Migrants plea to ACTU in Canberra for trade blacklist
The Czechoslovak Association of Canberra telegrammed ACTU president Mr Monk urging support for Czechoslovak Trade Unions in calling for a blacklist on shipping and trade with Warsaw Pact countries. The group formed to draw attention to Czechoslovakia, seek independence, aid refugees, and will hold a public meeting at Albert Hall next Sunday with a silent protest planned for Tuesday at .30pm organized by the United Council of Ex-Migrants from Communist Dominated Europe.
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Prague burns under new Soviet occupation forces
Bursts of gunfire mark the arrival of Soviet troops in Prague as curfews are enforced. Czechoslovaks move through streets toward churches or viewing the troops, with reports of officials and ministries being searched and damaged. Rail, industry, and uranium mines show disruption while Parliament debates economy and responses. Western embassies organize convoys toward borders as protests flare.
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Sobiel
Professor cancels Russian visit over Czechoslovakia invasion
Flinders University education professor J A Richardson cancels a planned trip to Russia in protest against Czechoslovakia’s invasion. Richardson, president of the Council for Civil Liberties, states he cannot accept hospitality from a government agency amid the USSR’s actions and cites parallels to US Vietnam protests. He had been invited by the USSR to study handicapped education and to meet workers in the field.
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Czechoslovakia
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Council For Civil Liberties
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