Can Mars Infect Earth United Nations report debates planetary contamination risk
A U N report cites scientists split over whether Martian samples should be kept for study or destroyed to prevent Earth contagion. COSPAR-led forum debate urged, noting US Viking mission could test for life and spark return missions. Biologists wary but some believe Earth’s environment would kill Martian organisms.
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Police Run Fence Scheme Nets 100 Arrests in Ap Op
Washington AP reports a police and FBI led fencing operation earned about 2.4 million dollars before the ruse was ended and more than one hundred individuals were arrested. The undercover effort targeted stolen goods and illicit exchanges, aiming to curb crime while exposing the black market for stolen items.
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Salvation Army Boys Club seeks book donations
Readers are urged to donate books to the Salvation Army Boys Club library. Call 882-1713 to arrange pickup. Also included are questions about religious discrimination in employment and a correction on Guil-Rand Fire Department's emergency number, plus details of a broad theft sting case in which a warehouse ring was busted and large quantities of stolen goods recovered.
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Massachusetts Primary Focusing on Forced Busing Issue
Massachusetts voters head to the polls Tuesday amid a volatile debate over court ordered school integration and forced busing. Candidates campaign across the state while national attention centers on delegates at stake and the fraught politics of the antibusing movement.
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Apparent death by own action shocks family in Connecticut
In Southbury Connecticut Norman John Rees Teft a retired oil company engineer was found dead by his own hand hours after a Dallas Times Herald report alleged he passed oil industry secrets to Soviet agents and acted as a double agent for the FBI in 1971 His family and friends reacted with disbelief as they read the sensational claim and tried to process the accusations surrounding his death
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Nixon Returns From China
Former President Richard Nixon returns to his San Clemente home after an eight day China trip. Officials say he may be debriefed or questioned on return though Kissinger will not do the debriefing. Local reaction mixed as details remain unclear.
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Lockheed Accused of Paying Off Colonels in Foreign Deals
Former Lockheed official Ernest Hauser alleges that Lockheed Aircraft Corp and competitors paid cash and promised post retirement jobs to U S Air Force colonels to steer foreign military contracts. Hauser, a Paradise Valley resident, cites unnamed names and downplays the amounts, while Lockheed officials admit vast bribes abroad but deny direct links to U S officers.
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Tax Returns Slow Without Rebate Incentive
Washington AP report shows IRS data indicating 9.7 percent fewer returns filed this year than in the same period last year due to the absence of a tax rebate. Average refunds rose by 35.28 dollars to 603. Taxpayers also earmarked 26.5 percent of returns for the campaign fund, totaling 66.2 million since 1973, with 9 million distributed to presidential primary candidates this year.
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