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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1973
Page
22
AP Wirephoto reports two bullets in Salvador Allende’s death during the September 11 coup in Santiago are believed to have marked his self-inflicted death, a detail noted by the military regime and photographed at the presidential palace.
Manned Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 12 parachuted onto the arid steppes of Kazakhstan Saturday completing a two day trial run for a 1975 mission. News notes cover EPA hazard waste data and other unrelated items from AP dispatches.
Tass reports the Soyuz 12 crew Vasily Lazarev and Oleg Makarov remained in good health after landing. Flight commander Lazarev, 45, and engineer Makarov, 40, were examined by doctors at the site. The article notes Soyuz 11's fatal depressurization after a 23 day spaceflight on June 30, 1971.
In Collinsville Illinois Virginia Askew 37 says an agent who helped in the mistaken April 23 raid broke into her home Friday and beat her Police Chief Paul Cigliano confirmed an investigation is underway Askew and husband Donald 41 filed a 100000 lawsuit and say they have faced harassment since the raids near St Louis Memorial Hospital Belleville treated her for head cuts and bruises and released her
Charleston West Virginia AP reports two Congress bills to regulate strip mining could eliminate up to 60 percent of Appalachia's surface mining. Ben E Lusk of WV Surface Mining and Reclamation Association warns the 1971 act already halved the industry and criticizes proposed bills as environmentally unsound. He argues contour with no depressions would destroy haul roads drainage and water management, causing uncontrolled runoff and erosion.
In Santiago the military regime announces it will replace all seven campus heads of the University of Chile with its appointees within ten days. Rector Edgardo Boeninger expresses both respect and lament as autonomy, long guarded by law, is challenged by the shakeup. Professors and students had previously elected rectors and police were barred from campuses without authorization.
President Nixon and West German Chancellor Willy Brandt met to align on an updated Atlantic Alliance. They agreed only that transatlantic consultations should continue, with no concrete plans for Nixon’s trip. Brandt offered to help harmonize the U.S. draft with the Common Market proposal, but observers doubted progress on the declaration of principles.
Journalist Bob Katz presents a film lecture titled Who Killed JFK in the Athens College gymnasium at 8 p.m. The program argues a Kennedy assassination conspiracy with rare slides and unseen photographs. Katz, allied with the Committee to Investigate Assassination, offers 90 minutes of research, followed by a Q A. admission is free for students, $2 for others.
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