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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Nov 17, 1975

Page

2

Weicker urges Kissinger contempt move to imprisonment

Sen. Lowell Weicker called for Congress to press Kissinger’s contempt citation to finality, accusing the secretary of double standards. He opposed Kissinger’s confirmation and criticized open government, tying it to a broader Ford administration critique amid a House panel vote on the contempt finding.

Lowell_ Weicker “Sr Congress Henry Kissinger Kissinger United States of America Connecticut Republica Weicker Senate House Select Committee On Intelligence Elre Kissinger United States Justice Department

Mercenaries Airlift to Angola Stirs World News

JOHANNESBURG reports that an airlift of mercenaries from South Africa to civil war torn Angola is under way. The Lisbon based paper says recruits are mostly Portuguese with some South Africans and former Congo mercenaries joining National Front and United Front forces attacking Luanda.

Johannesburg South Africa Angola Times Rand Sa da Bandeira National Front United Front Popular Movement Luanda Sunday Times Congo Africa

Britain's Labour to grant Scotland and Wales self government

Britain's Labour government plans to restore partial self rule to Scotland's 5.2 million people and set up an elected assembly for Wales's 2.7 million. Some MPs fear this may lead to breakup, though PM Harold Wilson denies any move to dissolve the United Kingdom.

London Britain Labor Party Scotland Wales House of Commons Harold Wilson United Kingdom Laborites

Hassan home in triumph after month long march in Morocco

King Hassan II rode home to a triumphal reception in Rabat after a month at front posts for the March of Conquest on the Spanish Sahara. A television address was planned to order hundreds of thousands of marchers at Tarisya to begin their journey home. Morocco and Mauritania had agreed on partitioning the colony with Bou Craa and northern coastline portions to Morocco. Mauritania would receive the southern zone.

Rabat Morocco Hassan II Spanish Sahara Tarisya Hassan Sahara Spain Mauritania Bou Craa

Ship scoured for explosives near Southampton docks

Police seized 400 pounds of explosives found in a building near the docks and detained 42 people for questioning as troops and customs with search dogs scoured the liner Queen Elizabeth 2 deck by deck in Southampton. The ship, in port for refitting, was due to sail to New York and may have ties to two 1972 bomb hoaxes. The explosives were located in a storage used by tenants of a 15 story apartment block overlooking the docks.

Southampton England New York

Teachers bugged by kids in Scotland use cheap eavesdropping gear

William Jarvis, a Scottish physics teacher, reports in the AMA magazine that pupils nicknamed Watergate Minors have used low cost monitoring kits to spy on teachers. A student hid a listening device in a radio to overhear a housemaster, while others connected headsets to a telephone and built transmitters for eavesdropping.

London Assistant Masters Association William Jarvis Association AMA Jarvis

Rescue by RAF Helis Saves Six From Damar Tragedy

Six crewmen were rescued from the Belgian trawler Damar in the North Sea after it lay on its side in 55 mph winds off Flamborough. Two RAF helicopters plucked three from the vessel and three others from a life raft.

London Royal Air Force North Sea Flamborough British Press Association

Narayan Calls for Talks to End Indian Emergency Crisis

Dissi Jayaprakash Narayan, the first opposition leader freed since Indira Gandhi declared the emergency, said in New Delhi that the government should begin talks soon to resolve the political crisis. He arrived from Chandigarh after parole, urged easing the emergency, freeing political prisoners, ending censorship, and holding nationwide elections by next March. Narayan and other non Communist leaders were arrested June 25 when the emergency began.

Dissi Jayaprakash Narayan Indira Gandhi New Bethi India Chandigarh Narayan Possi

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