Northern Ireland clash ends as soldiers clear streets
About 400 soldiers with armoured cars moved into Londonderry to quell street clashes between Protestant and Catholic groups. Troubled by fighting, shops shuttered and traffic stalled as troops patrolled the city. Civil Rights leaders criticized the mismanaged protest and political figures discussed peace reforms and disbanding the Ulster Special Constabulary.
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Stormy weather hits ACT and NSW shoppers sheltering from storms
Stormy conditions forced holiday makers in the ACT and NSW to seek cover as sudden thunderstorms disrupted outdoor activities. Mt Fairbairn reported the storm from 5.26pm to 9pm with 26 points of rain, winds up to 50 knots, hail, and a peak temperature around 92 degrees.
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Mt Fairbairn
Nepal Airlines Fokker Friendship Crash on Landing
A Nepal Airlines Fokker Friendship aircraft with 18 passengers aboard crashed on landing in heavy rain at an airport near Delhi. Officials reported the crash as the plane touched down two miles from the runway. injuries were not immediately known.
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Delhi
AAP
Nepal
Atlines
Paisley Leads Race to Replace O'Neill in Baanside
In Belfast, Reverend Ian Paisley emerged as the first candidate for the Baanside parliamentary seat vacated by former Premier Lord O'Neill. O'Neill announced he would resign next week as Unionist Party representative, activating a high profile contest in the Str Mont Parliament.
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Ian Paisley
Lord O'Neill
United Press International
Unionist Party
Baanside
Strmont
Police seek 17 year old escapee near Inverell
Police in north western MSW hunt for a 17 year old youth who escaped from a Bingamin lock up near Inverell yesterday while awaiting a court hearing on a stealing charge. He is believed to be travelling with his 19 year old brother in a light coloured car.
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MSW
Bingamin
Inverell
Saigon Offers Minorities Ministries to Communists
South Vietnam Information Minister Ngo Khac Tinh said Hanoi would grant one or two cabinet ministries to the Communists if they joined a limited coalition, rejecting a full village-to-government power-sharing. He warned of a major propaganda campaign by Vietcong and North Vietnam, and criticized Western perceptions of communism.
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Aap-Reuter
South Vietnam
Ngo Khac Tinh
Tinh
Mekong
Bac Lieu
Thieu
France
Italy
No to butter composite in Queensland war talk
Brisbane Sunday report on Queensland Butter Marketing Board manager G W Coombs rejecting a composite butter margarine product to end the butter margarine war. He questions virtue, notes different ingredients, cites new butter fat research and emulsified fat for cake use to boost butter demand.
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Queensland Butter Marketing Board
G. W. Coombs
Campbell
Queensland Young Liberal Convention
Gold Coast
Coombs
RAID ON EGYPT Israeli jets cripple ship at Gulf of Suez
Israeli jets crippled an Egyptian naval auxiliary vessel at the mouth of the Gulf of Suez, denying Egyptian claims of an Israeli plane shot down. The 120 ton ship south west of Shadwan Island, previously held by Israeli paratroops, was left stranded on a reef after the attack. Six crew members were injured on a civilian transport vessel Shadwan as Israeli aircraft reportedly hit targets near Hurghada.
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Radar losses and raids mark tense Sinai and Shadwan actions
Reports describe Egyptian commandos destroying an Israeli radar site near Howd Abu Samara in Sinai and freeing to base after a dawn raid. Israel claimed capture of a Shadwan radar post after 36 hours of fighting with high casualties on both sides. An Eilat explosion killed and wounded dozens, with Palestinian groups claiming responsibility.
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Call for new abortion law at Young Liberals convention
Brisbane delegates to the Young Liberals convention at Broadbeach voted for liberalising Queensland abortion laws. Miss Cheryl Grant argued for a woman's right to end a pregnancy, noting rare legal abortions but many illegal ones in Brisbane. The motion also urged repeal of section 211 and adoption of an act similar to the English Sexual Offences Act to legalise private acts between consenting adults in Queensland.
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Young Liberals
Broadbeach
Queensland
Cheryl Grant
Wavell
Training halt urged on foreign officer weapons course
Representative Robert Kastenmeier of Wisconsin called for ending the US programme that trains foreign officers in chemical and biological warfare at Fort McClellan Alabama. He criticized continued training despite Nixon’s ban noting the defensive claim masks offensive use. Colonel W A McKeen said 12 to 15 men and four women from several countries are taught in non classified courses with English and Canadian participants and some past figures from SEATO allies.
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Wisconsin
Associated Press
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Alabama
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England
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Australia
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Canberra magistrate urges a child welfare lobbying group
A Canberra magistrate announced on Saturday his wish to see a loose alliance of child welfare movements form to lobby. Mr C Hermes said voices for adolescent offenders are underrepresented while pressure groups grow in politics. The Boys Brigade of Australia held its fifth meeting with 6 national members, opened by Governor-General Sir Paul Hasluck.
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C. Hermes
Boys Brigade of Australia
Hermes
Boys Brigade Council
Paul Hasluck
Danger in growth of big business warns Canberra
A semimirin in Canberra warned that governments are preparing to meet the growing danger posed by large international businesses acting against the public interest. Australia and the United States will cooperate in a drug addiction research programme at the Commonwealth Laboratories in Melbourne. A youth was wounded and children terrified for hours by an armed prowler in a separate incident.
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Australia
United States
Commoniwestth Laboratories
Melbourne
Yaint Perom
Gonzales Defeats Laver In Five Set Classic for $10000
Veteran Pancho Gonzales toppled Australian Rod Laver in five sets in New York to capture $10,000 in prize money. Laver had earlier earned the ABC Sports Man Of The Year for 1969. Back page reports note NSW dismissed Victoria for 208 and ACT entrants won 28 titles at the NSW country championships in Sydney over the weekend.
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Rodd Laver
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Laver
ABC
Nsw
Victoria
Yesterning
Act
Sydney
Wilson to meet Nixon in Washington for talks
The British Prime Minister Mr Wilson will travel to Washington tomorrow for talks with U S President Mr Nixon on a wide range of topics. The notice appears on Page 5 with other content including weddings district radio and a crossword.
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