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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1973
Page
1
Two explosions at King's Cross and Euston stations in central London injure twelve, including a baby and a Chinese couple. Police blame Irish extremists as panic spreads among commuters after the 12:35 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. blasts.
Reports detail a collision between Icelandic gunboat Thor and the British frigate Jaguar inside Iceland's disputed 50 mile fishing limit near the east coast. Iceland threatened to break diplomatic ties with Britain as the incident sparked renewed tensions in the cod war.
Ground control laughed as Robert Crippen reported a fake call from Helen Garriott wife of astronaut Owen Garriott within Skylab. The joke followed a taped voice during a private phone call, while Garriott and crewmates Bean and Lousma tested health after 45 days in space. King Gustaf VI Adolf, aged 90, remains in very serious condition with ongoing internal bleeding.
Chinese workers and French flags rise along Pek ing boulevards as President Georges Pompidou prepares for a seven day state visit. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1970 Nobel laureate, becomes father again as his son Stepan is born to Natalya Svetlova.
Harvard John Downey, freed by the Chinese Communists in March after two decades in a Peking prison, has entered Harvard Law School. The New Britain resident, 42, was released following his CIA involvement in Korea, where his plane was shot down in 1952. Downey studied at Yale and is cited by university spokesmen.
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