Morocco Foils Coup Attempt Against Hassan II
Rebel officers tried to assassinate King Hassan II during his 42nd birthday celebration at the Shirat palace near Rabat. Loyal forces crushed the plot. casualties include Belgian ambassador Marcel Dupret and others, while Saudi ambassador Badreddine Snoussi and Prince Moulay Abdallah were injured.
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Rabat
Morocco
UPI
Hassan II
Hassan
Marcel Dupret
Shirat Summer Palace
Badreddine Snoussi
Moulay Abdallah
U.S
Stuart W. Rockwell
Army Training College
Ahmed Medbouh
Medbouh
Mohamed Oufkir
Oufkir
Mesbouh
Europe One
Shirat
The
Republic
Hanoi sees peace bid as face-saving alternative to defeat
UPI reports North Vietnam tells the United States through diplomats that its latest peace offer is a way to save face rather than accept battlefield defeat. French and East European diplomats relay the message, while Le Duc Tho in The New York Times shows signs of flexibility. Kissinger may meet Tho in Paris, as officials weigh a seven point plan and U.S. responses.
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Washington
UPI
North Vietnam
United States
U.S
Paris
le Duc Tho
New York Times
Mme
Nguyen
Thi Binh
Nixon
San Clemente
Calif
State Department
Henry A. Kissinger
Saigon
Kissinger
Pakistan
South Vietnam
Women rally behind new caucus urging female candidates
More than 200 women from diverse backgrounds gathered in Washington to form the National Women's Political Caucus. They debated abortion and pollution while agreeing on increasing women’s officeholders at local, state, and national levels.
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Washington
UPI
National Women’s Political Caucus
Kay Camp
Bella Abzug
D-N.y
Manhattan
Congresswomen
Lib
Betty Friedan
Gloria Steinem
Evelyn Cunningham
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Fannie Lou Hamer
Mississippi
U.S. Senate
Dorothy Haener
United Auto Workers of America
Library study details Indochina war costs and munitions
A Library of Congress study for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reports Indochina war air munitions totaling 5.56 million tons, about twice World War II, with aircraft losses far lower. It notes a per-person cost of roughly 425 dollars and compares ground munitions totals across conflicts.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Library of Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
Indochina
Korea
Presidential hopefuls face costly preconvention rush
With the 1972 Democratic National Convention a year away, seven potential Democrats including Sen. Fred R. Harris discuss spending limits at a dinner with DNC Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien. Party leaders fear prenomination spending drains funds from the fall campaign. On the GOP side Rep. Paul N. McCloskey aims to field pledged delegates in California's key primary.
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Washington
Lawrence F. O’brien
O’brien
White House
Paul N. McCloskey
California
Cancer virus isolated from monkey tissue in Massachusetts
The New England Regional Primate Research Center team led by Dr. Luis V. Melendez reports isolating a cancer inducing herpes virus from the kidney tissue of the South American black spider monkey. Inoculated marmosets died of malignant lymphoma with leukemia 28 to 40 days later, supporting theories that such viruses may cause human cancers.
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Southborough
Mass
Luis V. Melendez
Melendez
Man
Hidgkin
Burkitt
Mystery man faces million-dollar bail in heroin smuggling ring
A blond blue-eyed man identified as Jose San Martin, 45, from Buenos Aires, is held on $1 million bail as a key figure in an international heroin smuggling plot. U.S. Customs says the 98 percent pure heroin, worth about 20 million street value, was seized at Kennedy Airport along with four other suspects including Rafael Richard, 24, Panama, claimed as son of Panama's ambassador to Nationalist China. San Martin offered an altered Argentinian passport as proof of identity.
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New York
UPI
U.S
Jose San Martin
Buenos Aires
Edward Boyd
Kennedy Airport
Rafael Richard
Panama
China
18 Year Old Vote Changes West Virginia Politics
The 26th Amendment's adoption in June resolved 18 to 21 voting rights in West Virginia for federal and state elections. County clerks kept separate registers amid questions of state law validity. The Morgantown City Charter bars student voting locally, while calls for a special state census aim to rebalance legislative representation.
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Ohio
West Virginia
Congress
Supreme Court
Morgantown
Earl R. McCartney
Bureau of Census
State studies 18 year old voting status in Backing for lower house seats debated
Monongalia County currently has three House seats as state lawmakers study granting adult status to 18 year olds. A Legislative Services report estimates about 80 laws would need amendment to allow 18 year olds full voting rights. Subcommittee members request public input amid 70 proposed changes.
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Monongalia County
House
Joint Committee On Government and Finance
Senate
Joint Committee
Charleston
State Capitol
Circuit Court
William A. Moreland
Monongalia
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Arch A. Moore Jr
Dinsmore-McGraw
Mountain
U.S. Supreme Court
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