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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1973
Page
8
Cher and Sonny Bono delighted the crowd at the Du Quoin State Fair with song dance and costumes. The fair also features Danny Davey and the Nashville Brass performing through Sunday in grand stand shows.
A Brookfield Zoo reptile expert declared Seymour the supposed deadly cobra is actually a rat or chicken snake. The escape sparked days of search by civil defense workers and local residents, while a heat wave strained energy supplies in the Chicago area.
India and Pakistan sign an accord to release about 90,000 Pakistani prisoners of war from the 1971 conflict. The deal stipulates India will free all but 195 prisoners Bangladesh seeks to try, with those 195 remaining until Pakistan and Bangladesh reach a fate agreement.
The Nixon administration proposed rules to bar coal users from switching to scarce petroleum fuels for home heating. Power plants would keep using coal a year, with a public hearing set for September 6 and 7 at the Interior Department. The move aims to ease a predicted winter fuel shortage amid mandatory fuel allocations.
The Sierra Club criticizes the four agency options as insufficient for legal needs. A Supreme Court ruling forced the EPA to apply nondegradation to clean air regions, prohibiting meaningful pollution increases. The agency now must decide what level of added pollution counts as significant and thus barred.
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