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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jun 14, 1976
Page
16
The Nation reports from Kampala that Ugandan President Amin survived a grenade assassination attempt Thursday night. Ten people died, including a presidential bodyguard, and many were injured as three grenades litters a crowd after Amin’s speech. Amin spent the night in hospital with superficial wounds.
Amid English countryside, 5,000 Britons recreate Cromwell versus Charles I battles near Brill over three days. About 2,000 camp, roast sheep, drink beer, and watch for charity, while women spectators attend with no talk of liberation. Historic groups include The Sealed Knot and Roundheads Association, linking to conservation and traditional crafts.
Palestinians and leftists report major Syrian attacks on bases at Deir Al-Ashayer and Ayta and on towns Rashaya and Aintoura, risking the ceasefire that Libyan mediated and Fatah announced. Calls rise for Arab foreign ministers to act as Syria-sparked fighting continues.
The two week UN Habitat conference in Vancouver failed to produce a final declaration after Western nations rejected a proposed Declaration of Vancouver amid Arab calls framing Zionism as a form of tac. The US hinted it might skip future UN technical meetings while the final text urged water and housing for the poor, curb land profiteering, ease land tenure and share wealth with poorer nations. The conference backed squatter settlements in Asia and Latin America and promoted worldwide clean water by 1990.
Harvard biologist Dr Bert Ho ll dobler reports that the ant species Myrmecocystus mimicus in the southwest US conducts ritualized territorial tournaments to settle disputes. Victors recruit workers with an alarm odour system, rarely fight directly, but enslave defeated colony remnants, as observed in controlled and field tests near Portal, Arizona.
The Delhi administration has cracked down on begging to turn the city into a model modern capital. About a thousand beggars were arrested with thousands more fleeing, as slums are bulldozed and lower-class villages relocated. Officials defend the program as rehabilitation with certified institutions and work training for the disabled, while critics call it cosmetic removal of poverty.
The first international conference of prostitutes will be held in Washington from June 23 to June 28. Miss Mar pot St James, founder of the militant prostitutes' defence league, Coynte, said attendance is open to all. The event marks a year since the first American prostitutes gathering on June 22 last year in support of striking French prostitutes.
The Angolan civil war mercenaries trial faced a pause as four British lawyers arrived to seek defense, prompting judge Ernesto Teixeira Da Silva to adjourn. Seven mercenaries considered switching to British counsel while others preferred Angolan lawyers. Colonel Callan acknowledged responsibility for his men's actions but offered no further statements.
Communist guerrillas shot down a Royal Thai Air Force fighter bomber on a bombing mission over a northern Thailand stronghold. The pilot of the US made F jet Flying Oman Pongnrong Kaysom Suk is missing. Search and rescue teams comb the area.
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