Venus 8 lands on Venus marks second Soviet soft landing
Tass reports Venus 8 achieved a soft landing on Venus at 12 29 p m Moscow time and transmitted data for 50 minutes. Instruments studied atmosphere surface layer and soil while recording brightness pressure and temperature data. Venus 7 previously landed in 1970 sending 23 minutes of data.
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Australian ends bid on second English Channel attempt
Dover England AP Des Renford 44 of New South Wales gave up at the halfway mark in a two way English Channel swim. The Channel Swimming Association said fog and adverse currents slowed him. he arrived behind schedule after a 13 12 hour swim from France and called off the attempt for now.
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France
British troops press into IRA strongholds in Belfast crackdown
British troops seized explosives and weapons and arrested at least 62 suspected IRA members in dawn sweeps across Markets Ballymurphy Lower Falls Ardoyne and Andersonstown. The operation follows Friday IRA bombings that killed 11 and injured about 130, with total NI toll at 469 since August 1969.
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Northern Ireland
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Andersonstown
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Provisional Wing
Fischer predicted to win sixth game in Reykjavik match
Chess experts forecast American challenger Bobby Fischer will beat world champion Boris Spassky in the sixth game as the match reaches its decisive stage. Spassky retreats after a hard loss, promising a stronger comeback after rest, while Fischer objects to camera setups during the Sabbath observance.
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Iceland
UPI
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Boris Spassky
Spassky
Fischer
ABC
Chet Forte
Church of God
Unmanned Bombing Drones Considered for North Vietnam
U S Air Force uses Teledyne Ryan unmanned supersonic planes to drop propaganda leaflets and explores using them for bombing missions. Operators sit at a mother ship near Nakhon Phanom Thailand guiding drones at up to 900 mph 60 000 feet 700 mile range.
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U.S
United States
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Vietnam
China
Nakhon Phanom
Thailand
Egypt says Soviet advisers to leave quickly tied to med ship facilities
Cairo spokesman Mohammed Hassan Zayyat said Soviet military advisers will depart Egypt fairly quickly though no deadline was set by President Sadat. He affirmed Egypt will offer water and ship repair facilities to Soviet warships in the Mediterranean but denied any Soviet bases on Egyptian soil.
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UPI
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Moscow
Egypt
Mediterranean
Beirut
Mohammed Hassan Zayyat
Zayyat
United States
Sadat
Melvin Laird
Soviet Union
Bhutan King Jigme Dorji dies in Nairobi at 45
King Jigme Dorji Wanchuk of Bhutan died in Nairobi Hospital at age 45 while traveling incognito for medical treatment. The king was under care of Dr James Harries, with the Indian high commission citing a heart attack en route to the hospital.
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Kenya
UPI
Jigme Dorji Wanchuk
Bhutan
Himalayas
James Harries
High Commission of India
Biarritz Names Street for Poet Alan Seeger
In the French coastal city of Biarritz a street was officially named for American poet Alan Seeger. Seeger served with the Foreign Legion in 1914 and died on the Somme front in 1916. While recovering in Biarritz in 1915 he wrote his last poem I have a Rendezvous with Death.
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France
UPI
Alan Seeger
Seeger
Foreign Legion
Somme
London's panda Chi-Chi Dies At London Zoo At Fifteen
Chi-Chi the London Zoo giant panda died Saturday at age fifteen after a long life adored by visitors around the world. The zoo spokesman said she died peacefully in her sleep about 3 am, and children visiting the zoo cried upon hearing the news. Chi-Chi had once rejected her Russian suitor An-An.
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UPI
Chi-Chi
London Zoo
An-An
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