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Oak Ridge researchers report a surge of international calls after news of potential cancer breakthroughs with BCG. Scientists begin a long program of studies to test the bacterial agent in humans, acknowledging a five year timeline for possible results. Dr. Hanna junior heads immunology while Sundberg notes global hopeful interest.
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POWs not aboard Vientiane flight
A Soviet airliner landed in Vientiane from Hanoi on Saturday but the three U.S. prisoners of war released by North Vietnam to an American antiwar group were not aboard as expected. No definite word was available on when they would be released. Two antiwar activists who flew
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Marianne Hamilton
Cora Weiss
David Dellinger
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Bury
Senate
Da Nang shelled as North Vietnam press attacks escalate
North Vietnamese gunners fire 33 rockets into Da Nang Air Base at dawn wounding 10 and killing two, with a plane struck and trucks damaged. Jets reply near Quang Ngai as four militia posts fall. POWs delayed return from Hanoi amid antiwar talks. Other reports note BCG cancer research progress in Montana and expert cautious optimism.
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UPI
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West Virginia routs Virginia 48 10 in college football
Mountaineers surge in Scott Stadium led by Bernie Galiffa four TD passes and Ade Dillon TD tosses for 340 yards Virginia’s Harrison Davis ejected early in second quarter WVU sets 27 straight extra points record while dominating after halftime
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Ade Dillon
Maryland
Danny Buggs
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Marshall Mills
Galliffa
Dillon
Bernie Kirchner
Brian Chiles
Mike Nelson
Frank Nester
WVU
Harrison Davis
Art Hodge
Davis
Jeff Morrow
George Allen Jr
Washington Redskins
South Carolina
Virginia Tech
Replacement level reached in births in US history
The United States has reached the replacement level of fertility at 2.1 children per woman, according to Census Bureau analysts. Demographers warn the rate could rise again, but the six month milestone marks the first sustained period at replacement level in recorded history.
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Washington
United States
Campbell Gibson
Census Bureau
Marcos declares martial law in Philippines to curb rebellion
President Ferdinand E. Marcos announced martial law to save the republic from a Communist uprising and to reform society. He cited an assassination attempt on the defense secretary and imposed a curfew with Metrocom checkpoints in Manila as the nation faced a 12 hour blackout and tightened security.
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Philippines
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Pacific
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Metropolitan Police Command
Metrocom
Greater Manila
Senate condemns Thieu in power critique vote
In Saigon the South Vietnamese Senate passed a resolution denouncing President Nguyen Van Thieu for using near unlimited powers. The vote was 21 to 1 with disruptions from a blackout and smoke grenades, which caused no injuries. The measure calls the emergency law ineffective and without legal basis.
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Saigon
UPI
Nguyen van Thieu
Thieu
Senate
Harvard assistant shot to death in Boston apartment
Joseph Strickland 44, noted black journalist and assistant to the Harvard dean, was found shot to death in his apartment bathroom early Saturday. The medical examiner called it an apparent homicide pending autopsy. Strickland had been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize twice.
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Boston
UPI
Joseph Strickland
Harvard University
George Curtis
Strickland
Six Monongalia mines named among nation’s most gaseous
AP reports a U S Bureau of Mines study lists six Monongalia County coal mines among 29 U S mines emitting over 100 000 cubic feet of methane daily The Pittsburgh Seam area spans southwestern Pennsylvania into northern West Virginia The 1969 federal act flags mines over one million cubic feet daily for federal inspection and the bureau plans fuller inspections starting October 1
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Pennsylvania
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