Sakharov alleges Soviet psychiatrists drug dissidents
Nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov says Soviet psychiatrists drug detained dissidents to damage intelligence. He urged Western psychiatrists at an upcoming conference to demand access to dissidents in mental hospitals and urged refusals if denied. He rebutted charges he favors war and cited halopiridol use on Leonid Plyusch. In Chile, housewives face food shortages as strikes widen and supply cuts loom.
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UPI
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Sakharov
Soviet Union
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Willy Brandt
Leonid Plyusch
Dnepropetrovsk
Santiago
Chile
Central Chamber of Commerce
Lanchile
Salvador Allende
Allende
Africawide hunter ban shifts focus to elephant protection
Tanzania banned any hunting or capture of wild animals in a bid to halt poaching after Kenya and Ivory Coast imposed elephant hunting or ivory bans. Officials cited rising illegal hunting driven by demand for ivory and rhino products, noting the move targets wealthy foreign hunters and aims to preserve wildlife heritage.
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Kenya
UPI
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Pompidou Plans Historic China Visit Arriving in Peking
An Air France Boeing 707 carrying journalists and Pompidou staff landed in Peking for the inaugural Paris to Peking flight. Pompidou, 62, will be the first French leader to visit China, staying four days for talks with Mao Tse tung and Premier Chou En-lai before tours of Yung Gang grottoes, Hangchow, and Shanghai.
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UPI
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Chou En-lai
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Radio Free Europe funding sparks Soviet protest
Pravda denounces the U S Senate approval of continuing subsidies to Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty as a cold war throwback. The paper says Washington’s subsidies fund hostile subversion against the Soviet Union despite signs of improved international climate.
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UPI
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Pravda
U.S. Senate
Radio Free Europe
Radio Liberty
Washington
Soviet Union
West Virginia business indicators rise overall despite coal decline
The West Virginia Chamber of Commerce reports 19 of 23 indicators gained in the first seven months of the year. Coal production fell 9.5 percent, natural gas down 4.2 percent, and crude petroleum down 11.5 percent, while building permits and car sales rose strongly.
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Charleston
W.va
UPI
State Chamber of Commerce
West Virginia
Security watch intensifies on Belfast churches after bomb threats
British Army says troops will monitor Catholic churches across Northern Ireland over the weekend following bomb threats by Protestant extremists.Three Belfast bombs exploded within ten minutes earlier on Saturday with no immediate casualties reported. The security zone extends to pubs and a Portrush boat attack with 881 deaths in four years of sectarian violence. The Ulster Freedom Fighters issued contradictory statements on cease fires and renewed bombings.
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UPI
Portrush
Northern Ireland
Army
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Irish Republican Army
Arabs blamed for explosion at Israeli exhibit stand
West Berlin Jewish community leader Heinz Galinski blamed an East Berlin based Arab terror network for a bomb blast at the Israeli stand during the International Radio and Television exhibition. The homemade device caused 20800 dollars in damage at Funkturm grounds but injured no one. Police offered no clues as to suspects.
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Berliner Allgemeine
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