Sadat Named Egypt President For Six Years In Referendum
Anwar Sadat was proclaimed Egypt president for six years after a 90.4 percent referendum victory. He received 6,432,587 yes votes to 711,252 noes with 85 percent turnout and 13,814 invalid ballots, Interior Minister Sharawi Gomaa announced.
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Anwar Sadat
Egypt
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Sadat
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Sharawi Gomaa
Gomaa
Patrick Henry High students praise ungraded learning approach
In San Diego the Patrick Henry High School experiment lets 3,000 pupils choose study methods and times with no F grades. Most students approve, while some parents remain unconvinced about the new system and its impact.
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San Diego
Calif
Patrick Henry High
Business Council Meets in Hot Springs to Review GM Strike Impact
About 100 council members and heads of major corporations gather in Hot Springs Virginia for closed talks with administration officials. They assess how the General Motors strike and other labor actions may affect the anticipated U.S. economic upturn, with Nixon economic aides set to join.
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General Motors
U.S
United Auto Workers
Business Council
Virginia
President Nixon
Economic High Command
Nobel prize winners urge support for young researchers
Dr. Julius Axelrod of Rockville Maryland, a 1970 Nobel laureate in medicine, says young researchers face uphill battles against established scientists for funding and calls the situation a mistake. He shares the prize with Bernard Katz of London and Ulf von Euler of Stockholm, receiving a total $80,000 award.
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Washington
Julius Axelrod
Rockville
Bernard Katz
London
Ulf von Euler
Stockholm
War Casualties Slump in Vietnam Fighting
American casualties in Vietnam fall to levels where deaths from accidents illness and disease rival combat deaths. Over the past two weeks non hostile deaths nearly equal battlefield losses, and for the first time since 1965 a single week saw more noncombat deaths than combat deaths.
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Washington
Vietnam
United States
Turkish asylum policy gates hijacker asylum request
Ankara officials said Turkey would reject a Soviet demand for the extradition of Brazinskas Koroyevo 46 and his son Algedas 18 who hijacked an AN24 with 48 aboard and landed at Trabzon. A stewardess was killed and three crew were wounded during the hijacking.
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Turkey
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Algedas
Black Sea
Trabzon
FBI hears rumors of kidnapping plots says Mitchell
Atty Gen Mitchell said the FBI has heard rumors of plots to kidnap U S government officials but no alert has been issued He replied to Sen Saxbe who said the White House warned GOP leaders of possible political abductions Mitchell noted Hoover mentioned planned revolutionary activities during a GOP briefing last month
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John N. Mitchell
FBI
United States
Mitchell
William B. Saxbe
Ohio
White House
Saxbe
J. Edgar Hoover
Missing Men Sought After West Gate Bridge Collapse
Searchers resumed the hunt for 12 missing men as the West Gate Bridge rubble was probed in Melbourne Australia. The disaster left 18 workers dead and 7 listed in critical condition after a 450 foot span collapsed sending debris into the Yarra River and a row of huts where lunch was being taken.
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Melbourne
Australia
West Gate Bridge
Yarra
War Measures Act invoked as Trudeau acts in Quebec crisis
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau invoked Canada's War Measures Act after FLQ kidnappings including British trade commissioner James Cross and Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte. Police arrested hundreds. paratroopers moved toward Montreal as military and police crack down under broad powers.
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Quebec
Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Canada
Trudeau
Alerta
Montreal
James R. Cross
Pierre Laporte
Robert Lemieux
Quebec Liberation Front
FLO
Lemieux
Nelson
Bomb Damages Kansas City Police Station Injures Two Officers
In Kansas City AP reports a bomb shattered a side door of a police storefront center injuring two patrolmen, Kenneth Fleming and Charles Robinson, who were admitted in good condition. Police noted no confirmed group link and described possible suspect activity nearby.
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Kenneth Fleming
Charles Robinson
Menorah Hospital
California
Washington State
New York
Massachusetts
Fleming
Robinson
Economic Reports Offer Mixed Signals Ahead of Elections
The Nixon administration received new economic data ahead of the off year election. GNP rose 6 percent for July to September signaling beginning recovery, while industrial production fell 1.7 percent in September, offering counterpoints for campaign rhetoric.
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Washington
Nixon
Gorss
GNP
Paul W. McCracken
Council of Economic Advisers
Texas Gains Extra Long Staple Cotton Allotment
The Agriculture Department announced 1971 increases in extra long staple cotton allotments for several Southwestern states. Texas acreage rises to 41 623 from 27 666, with the national total up by 39 393 acres to 117 791 acres.
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Washington
Texas
Agriculture Department
Kent State violence leads to 25 indictments in Kent Ohio
A special grand jury cleared Ohio National Guardsmen in the Kent State killings and injuries on May 4. Twenty five people were indicted on 30 bills totaling 43 offenses, while identities and charges await notification. The panel described May 1 to May 3 as riot conditions and said Guard members acted under threat, not for criminal prosecution.
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Ravenna
Ohio
Kent State University
Ohio National Guardsmen
National Guard
Taylor Hall
Kent
25th Division Withdrawn From Vietnam By Christmas
The 25th Infantry Division is being pulled from Vietnam with two of its three brigades leaving by Christmas. The 4th Infantry Division and the 5th Marine Regiment will also be withdrawn under Nixon's order cutting American forces by 40 000 troops by year end. The 25th Division brigades head to Hawaii, with the 3rd Brigade likely deactivated in Vietnam next year. In Cambodia a brief clash near Phnom Penh involves Cambodian and North Vietnamese forces. a Cambodian civilian was wounded. Saigon reports the Cambodian operation in southeastern Cambodia ended, reducing South Vietnamese forces there to about 10 000 troops.
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Vietnam
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5Th Marine Regiment
Nixon
25Th Division
Hawaii
11Th Armored Cavalry Regiment
Cambodia
Roka Kong
Phnom Penh
Associated Press
Robin Mannok
Mannock
Phnom Penh-Saigon
Nixon rejects plan for new consumer agency in USDA
The Nixon administration declines the task force recommendation to create a Food Inspection Service within the Agriculture Department to oversee meat and poultry inspection. It would keep meat and poultry inspection under the Consumer and Marketing Service, citing internal conflicts and possible efficiency gains without a new agency. The report urges clearer authority across levels to improve consumer protection.
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Consumer and Marketing Service
The
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Richard E. Lyng
Clayton Yeutter
C&ms
Lyng
USDA
Federal
Meat and Poultry
Usda Agency
West of the Pecos Weather Outlook Tonight Through Saturday
Cloudy and cool with occasional light rain tonight and Saturday. Chance of light snow over mountains. Highs range 45 to 58 degrees Saturday. Lows 35 to 48 tonight.
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