A crewed American Apollo spacecraft and the crewed Soviet Soyuz spacecraft for the Soyuz 19 mission docked in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations. Astronauts of the United States and the Soviet Union met in space today and joined hands, symbolizing the two nations’ expressed desire to cooperate in space exploration. The American Apollo made physical contact with the Soviet Soyuz at 12:09 PM, Eastern daylight time, about 140 miles above the Atlantic Ocean and about 620 miles west of Portugal. Three and a half minutes later the two ships achieved a firm link-up. At 3:19 PM Washington time (10:19 pm in Moscow), Apollo commander Tom Stafford and Soyuz commander Alexei Leonov shook hands. Deke Slayton then joined Stafford in boarding the Soyuz ship, where the astronauts remained for two more hours.
The U.S. State Department has informed Congress that the Administration deliberately chose not to approach the Soviet Union on possible naval‐arms limitations in the Indian Ocean before deciding to proceed with construction of a naval base on the island of Diego Garcia. The State Department, in a letter made public today by Senator John C. Culver, Democrat of Iowa, argued that the United States would be in a better bargaining position to work out an arms‐limitation agreement with the Soviet Union on naval forces in the Indian Ocean if it had first established the base on Diego Garcia. This “bargaining‐chip” justification was disputed by Senator Culver. In a Senate speech he argued that it would be better to try to work out an agreement before each side gets “locked in” with permanent naval facilities in the Indian Ocean — the Soviet Union at Berbera in Somalia and the United States on British‐owned Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
Turkey postponed its deadline for placing U.S. military bases on “temporary status” to allow time for the two sides to complete arrangements for negotiations, Foreign Minister Ihsan Sabri Caglayangil announced. Diplomatic observers interpreted the postponement as a move to allow time for the upcoming vote in the House of Representatives on the resumption of American military shipments to Turkey, suspended last February because of the continued Turkish occupation on Cyprus. Meanwhile, in Washington, President Ford warned 130 congressmen at a breakfast that the U.S. ban on arms sales was driving Turkey away from its American alliance, Press Secretary Ron Nessen said.
Four British soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote-controlled bomb near Forkill, County Armagh; this attack is the first major breach of the February truce. A booby-trapped milk can left by a roadside in South Armagh killed four British soldiers, the first troops to die in Northern Ireland since a cease-fire began nearly six months ago. The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the blast and in a statement said it was in retaliation for continued harassment of the people of Northern Ireland and the killing of two men by British soldiers.
Portugal’s rulers cast about today for an effective government following the collapse of the Lisbon coalition early this morning. The ruling High Council of the Revolution, “aware of the delicacy of the present situation,” appealed for calm and civic spirit as Premier Vasco Goncalves, who is being contested himself by fellow officers, sought to form a government with military men and civilian technicians. The resignation today of the second of the coalition’s two moderate member parties and the the subsequent decision to form a new cabinet threw the country into a state of division and anxiety.
Dissident scientist Andrei D. Sakharov said Soviet officials have turned down a fresh application from his wife to travel abroad for medical treatment. The physicist said the refusal, the second in four months, was communicated to him by the government’s Department of Visas and Registrations. Mrs. Sakharov is suffering from an eye disease.
Israel’s Ambassador, Simcha Dinitz, gave Secretary of State Kissinger the latest Israeli proposals for breaking the deadlocked talks with Egypt on a new Sinai agreement. It was reported later that “progress” had been made. Mr. Dinitz reportedly told Mr. Kissinger that Israel was ready to accept a demarcation line in Sinai along the easternmost slopes of the strategic Gidi and Mitla passes. Despite an Egyptian threat not to renew the mandate of the United Nations peace‐keeping force in Sinai, a cause of concern in Washington and Israel, the American mediation efforts still appear to be on the course that seemed charted last week when the first signs of definite progress emerged. If the Egyptians refuse to allow the, United Nations force to be extended, however, the current negotiations are expected to collapse. At this time, this is not anticipated.
Egypt, in the official view, has instilled a new sense of urgency in the search for a Middle East setilement and has closed no doors. There have been no official statements since Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy said two days ago that his government would refuse to permit renewal of the mandate of United Nations forces in Sinai unless the Security Council took action to assure speedy Israeli Withdrawal from occupied Arab territory. According to an informed Arab diplomat the main purpose of Mr. Fahmy’s warning was to draw attention to the Arab viewpoint that the basic issue remains the continued presence of Israeli troops in occupied Arab territories.
Security Council members began private consultations today seeking a formula that would persuade Egypt to agree to extend the mandate of the United Nations peace force in Sinai. After an hour-long meeting, they agreed to meet tomorrow.
Syria has been in close consultation with Egypt since Cairo’s threat not to extend the mandate of the United Nations Emergency Force in Sinai beyond July 24, Arab diplomats said here today. The Egyptian Government alerted the Syrians in advance about the decision, which was, disclosed by Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy at a news conference on Tuesday. The Arah diplomats said that Syria and Egypt had been coordinating their military and political moves by means of a joint committee set up after. President Anwar‐el‐Sadat of Egypt and President Hafez alAssad of Syria met in April in Saudi Arabia. In May, Syria extended for six months the mandate for United Nations forces on the Golan Heights. Arab diplomats do not expect Syria to change her stand unless war developed between Egypt and Israel.
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company announced that it had placed a $100 million note issue with the government of Saudi Arabia. The company has traditionally restricted its borrowings to domestic financial markets. A statement that quoted Charles Brown, the company’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, said that “the private placement relieves some of the demand in the domestic capital market and should make it easier to raise the remainder of the year’s financing required by Bell operating companies.”
One rainy August day 26 years ago India’s constituent assembly sat in an ornate hall here work. ing over the draft of a federal constitution. When the legislators came to a section that would by declaring a state of emergency, empower the executive to suspend civil liberties, a former fighter against British rule named H. V. Kamath took the floor. “I have studied the major constitutions of the world,” he said, “but I have not come across any such wide and sweeping provision. I fear that we are seeking to lay the foundations of a totalitarian state. The suspension of fundamental rights is a very grave matter,” he added, arguing for some greater check on the emergency powers. “I will even go so far as to say that it is even graver than the gravest emergency with which the state may be confronted.” Mr. Kamath lost the argument, the article that he was fighting became part of the Constitution, three weeks ago it was invoked for the first time in a domestic emergency and thousands of government opponents were jailed.
North Vietnam has applied for U.N. membership, two days after an application was received from the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam. Observers took the separate applications to mean that the two Vietnams intend to postpone unification for at least a few years. The Security Council will decide if the two applications are acceptable and make a recommendation to the General Assembly, which will make a final decision.
Thailand said today that China had agreed to buy 200,000 tons of Thai rice in what was clearly a move to cement economic relations between the two countries. Thailand’s Minister of Commerce, Thongyod Chittaveera, made the unexpected disclosure after conferring with Premier Kukrit Pramoj. It followed the Premier’s visit to China earlier this month and the opening of diplomatic relations. If the purchases come quickly enough — Mr. Thongyod did not disclose the timetable — they could help stabilize the market for Thailand’s rice, which is the nation’s principal export.
Japan’s Crown Prince (and later, Emperor) Akihito, and his wife, Princess Michiko, narrowly missed being struck by a Molotov cocktail thrown at them by protesters during a visit to the city of Naha on Okinawa. Akihito and Michiko were attacked by two young radicals today on Okinawa, but were unhurt. A policeman suffered minor burns. The two youths hurled a fire bomb and firecrackers at the Crown Prince and Princess as they were laying flowers at a monument dedicated to Okinawan women students and nurses who killed themselves during the battle for Okinawa in the final days of World War II. The firebomb was quickly extinguished and the radicals arrested. They reportedly wore white helmets reading “Okinawa Liberation League.” This group opposes the continued United States presence in the islands two years after they were returned to Japan, and political manipulation from Japan.
A crowded commuter train derailed in the Madureira suburb of Rio de Janeiro and one car crashed into a school building. Rescue workers reported at least 20 persons killed and more than 100 injured. Officials said six cars carrying an estimated 1,200 persons left the track. They said a wall of the school collapsed on impact and several persons were believed to be buried under the rubble. There was no indication that anyone was in the school at the time of the derailment. A fire department spokesman said that more than 100 people had been killed and at least 300 injured, while a railroad official called the number “absurd” and said that “The official number of dead is 13.”
Most of the coffee crop in the Brazilian state of Paraná was destroyed by the Geada Negra (“Black Frost”), when unusually low temperatures brought snow to much of the tropical region.
Federal heads of five Argentine provinces resigned, adding to the political problems of President Maria Estela Peron who has been ordered by doctors to rest until Saturday. Official sources said the president of the Central Bank, Ricardo Cairoli, had also resigned. The federal appointees who resigned were in the provinces of Formosa, Sala, Mendoza, Cordoba and Santa Cruz. No reason was given.
Meetings of Angola’s three feuding black liberation movements and Portuguese authorities were called today to discuss the crisis here. Earlier this week, troops of the left‐wing Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola drove most of the soldiers of the anti‐Communist National Front for the Liberation of Angola from Luanda, the capital. The remnant of the National Front force here was trapped in a colonial fort overlooking the mouth of the harbor, with little chance of rescue or escape. Its future was a bargaining question at the meetings.
Portugal’s high commissioner in Angola appealed to U.N. relief agencies for emergency supplies of food for refugees. The refugees have jammed onto the Luanda palace grounds guarded by contingents of Portugal’s 27,000-man army still in Angola. Aides said about 5,000 whites faced starvation after losing their homes in one week’s fighting among rival black nationalist groups. The rival leaders were reportedly meeting to try to resolve their differences.
President Ford, having first avoided a proposed meeting with Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, is now trying to arrange one. But the exiled Soviet author is reportedly insisting on a written invitation to the White House. Well‐placed Congressional officials said today that the President sent word to Mr. Solzhenitsyn on Tuesday, when the Nobel laureate was honored at a Capitol Hill reception, that Mr. Ford would welcome a meeting. But the officials said that Mr. Solzhenitsyn had replied through Senator Jesse A. Helms, Republican of North Carolina, that he would meet Mr. Ford only in response to a formal invitation. One official said it appeared doubtful that Mr. Ford would extend such an invitation, despite White House recognition of the political embarrassment resulting from the failure to arrange a meeting.
The nation’s total output of goods and services was essentially flat in the second quarter, providing further evidence that the recession has hit bottom, the Commerce Department said. Preliminary figures showed that the gross national product, the broadest measure of the total economy, declined at an annual rate of three-tenths of 1 percent in the April-June quarter after adjusting for higher prices.
Hoping to end the disputes that have stalled its investigation of the federal intelligence agencies, the House of Representatives took the unusual step today of abolishing its Select Committee on Intelligence and replacing it with a new, larger panel with the same authority. As had been expected, House Speaker Carl Albert did not reappoint to the new committee either Representative Lucien N. Nedzi of Michigan, the chairman of the old panel, or Representative Michael J. Harrington of Massachusetts. House members had been at odds over the fitness of the two Democrats to take part in the investigation. Shortly after a resolution to reconstitute the select committee had been adopted by a voice vote, Mr. Albert filled the chairman’s post with Representative Otis G. Pike, an eight-term, 53‐year‐old Democrat from Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, who is well regarded by his colleagues.
The Senate Judiciary Committee turned aside attempts today to amend and weaken a bill to extend the Voting Rights Act for 10 years and appeared ready to approve the measure tomorrow. The bill to continue protection of the voting rights of blacks and to extend the same protection to citizens of Spanish origin is expected to go to the Senate floor no later than next Thursday. Supporters of the measure are concerned, however, because the present act will lapse on August 6 unless the Senate acts in time. The House has already approved the bill.
The Senate refused to go along with House efforts to allow separate physical education classes and professional honorary societies for men and women in federally aided schools at all levels. The Senate insisted that a sex-segregation amendment be deleted from a $7.5 billion education appropriations bill that would finance grade school, secondary and college aid programs for the 15 months that started July 1. The Senate action came a day after the House voted 212 to 211 to keep the controversial amendment. Senate advocates were optimistic the House would reverse its stand. The bill is $1.3 billion over President Ford’s budget request and he may veto it.
Blacks who lost their jobs in the current recession because they had low seniority have not been discriminated against, a federal appeals court has ruled in New Orleans. The seniority system with its last-hired, first-fired provisions is constitutional, the court said. Black workers laid off by Continental Can Co., Inc., had charged that hiring discrimination before civil rights legislation was passed put them at the bottom of the seniority system. “Plaintiffs, who have never suffered discrimination at the hands of the company, are in no better position to complain of the recall system than are the white workers who were hired contemporaneously with them,” the ruling said.
The top legal officers of 14 states petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to impose a total ban on televised drug commercials from 6 AM to 9 PM each day. The petition charged that the industry’s voluntary restraints on drug commercials in programs for children are inadequate and that children are being overexposed to Madison Avenue techniques calculated to create a demand for drugs.
The staff of the Rockefeller commission, sources at the commission said, concluded that the chief of the Central Intelligence Agency’s LSD drug-testing program destroyed his records in 1973 to hide details of possibly illegal actions. Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, a biochemist, who was chief of the program, was said to have been personally involved in an experiment in which Frank Olson, a C.I.A. employee, was allegedly given LSD without his knowledge, and later committed suicide. Meanwhile, Robert Lashbrook, a former employee of the C.I.A., said in an interview that Mr. Olson had knowingly participated in the CIA experiment with LSD.
Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar disclosed late today that 85 postcards and 25 letters intercepted more than three years ago by the Central Intelligence Agency had just been found on a shelf at an agency office. The mail, all from the Soviet Union to United States residents, had been opened, read and relayed to Washington through Latin America in an inexplicable process, according to an apologetic letter to Mr. Bailar yesterday from William E. Colby, the Director of Central Intelligence. Mr. Bailar made public the Colby letter, along with the Postmaster General’s angry reply that “it is an understatement to tell you I am shocked.”
Government prosecutors rested their bribery‐conspiracy case against former Senator Edward J. Gurney of Florida today without calling rebuttal witnesses. The surprise move cleared the way for final arguments and jury deliberations. Gurney, former Republican member of the Senate Watergate Committee, and his three co‐defendants are accused of an influence‐peddling scheme in which builders who dontributed political funds to Mr: Gurney were allegedly given favored treatment from the Federal Housing Administration. Mr. Gurney is charged with conspiracy, bribery, receiving unlawful compensation and four counts of making false statements to a grand jury.
The Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of about 174,000 vials of possibly non-sterile intravenous drugs from hospitals and kidney patients’ homes across the nation. The FDA said manufacturing deficiencies at Travenol Laboratories’ plant at Hays, Kansas, could lead to contamination of the wide range of parenteral (non-oral) drugs which normally are administered through intravenous solutions. No injuries or deaths have been reported and actual non-sterility of the products has not been confirmed, the FDA said. Kidney patients using the anticoagulant drug heparin for home dialysis had been sent new supplies, an official said.
An Alabama oilman is using the Freedom of Information Act in an attempt to learn the names of government officials who might have been sources for news accounts disclosing a multimillion-dollar oil deal now under investigation. In what is believed to be a legal first, oilman Bart Chamberlain of Mobile, Alabama, cited Cox Newspapers’ and reporter Jean Heller in Freedom of Information requests filed with the Commerce Department and Federal Energy Administration. Articles in the Cox papers last month disclosed Chamberlain’s role in a deal by which price-controlled domestic oil was exported to a Bahamas refinery and then sold to U.S. utilities at much higher prices during the Arab oil embargo of 1973-74.
California’s request to enforce its standard for automobile hydrocarbon emissions for the 1977 model year was denied by federal Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Russell E. Train. But he announced that the state is authorized to enforce the standard for the 1978 model year. Train concluded there is not enough time to apply the necessary technology on a mass-production basis for 1977 production. The California standard is more stringent than the present federal standard.
Flocks of rare desert bighorn sheep escaped the flames of a brush fire that has devoured more than 8,600 acres of their habitat, wildlife biologists said today. Firefighters battling the blaze that broke out Monday afternoon expressed optimism that the fire would soon be under control but said it was still “causing problems” on its northeastern front. “The sheep are apparently fine,” said a biologist at Anza-Borrego State Park. Of the 3,000 known desert bighorns, an endangered species, about 450 live in the rugged canyons and desert flats of the park, about 50 miles northeast of San Diego.
Beatle member Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox Starkey divorce, after 10 years of marriage.
Bob Hayes, the 10‐year veteran wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, was traded to the San Francisco 49ers for an undisclosed draft choice today. Hayes, a former world‐record holder in the 100‐yard dash, averaged 46 receptions and more than nine touchdowns a year for the first seven years of his National Football League career. But he caught only seven passes for 118 yards and one touchdown last season, when he lost his starting job to Golden Richards. In all, Hayes scored 76 touchdowns, caught 365 passes for 7,295 yards and returned punts an average of 11.2 yards for the Cowboys.
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Bowie Kuhn survived the palace revolt and won reelection as commissioner of baseball today when the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers quit the rebels after a night of nonstop counterattacks. The coup against Kuhn was engineered by Charles O. Finley, the controversial owner of the world champion Oakland A’s, and Jerold Hoffberger of the Baltimore Orioles. When they found allies yesterday in the Yankees and Rangers, the commissioner suddenly was faced with the threat of being deposed in the sixth year of his seven-year contract and the baseball brass fell into wrangling on the day after the 46th All‐Star game. Everybody denied that any deals were made, but everybody conceded that “the phones kept ringing” and by early this morning the Yankees had been persuaded to switch sides, with the Rangers following.
A homer by Elrod Hendricks with two men on base in the 12th inning carried the Orioles to a 6–3 victory over the Twins. Bobby Grich walked and Tommy Davis singled ahead of Hendricks’ two-out smash. The Twins counted all their runs in the third, two scoring on a homer by Dan Ford, to take a 3–1 lead. The Orioles tied the score in the ninth with a walk to Al Bumbry, single by Brooks Robinson, a sacrifice, single by Tony Muser and sacrifice fly by Ken Singleton.
For the second consecutive White Sox game, Wilbur Wood is the starter, and he tosses his 2nd straight shutout. The two starts were broken up by the All-Star game. Allowing only two hits, Wood pitched the White Sox to a 4–0 victory in the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, but the Tigers came back to win the second game, 9–1. Mickey Lolich, who lost the opener to Wood, gave up all White Sox runs in the third inning on a walk and four hits, plus an error by Tom Veryzer that made all runs unearned. In the nightcap, Aurelio Rodriguez led the Tigers at bat, accounting for four RBIs with a single and double.
Fergie Jenkins pitched a three-hitter and Jeff Burroughs drove in three runs as the Rangers broke their four-game losing streak by defeating the Yankees, 7–2. Burroughs batted in two runs with a double in the first inning and added his other RBI with a sacrifice fly in the second. Both Yankee runs were unearned.
Led by Cecil Cooper, who smashed a double, triple and homer as the designated hitter, the Red Sox defeated the Royals, 8–3, for their eighth straight victory. Cooper banged his homer in the second inning, doubled and scored in the fourth and tripled with the bases loaded in the fifth. Rick Burleson also homered for the Red Sox, while John Mayberry hit one for the Royals.
After tying the score with homers by Reggie Jackson and Sal Bando in the second inning, the Athletics broke away with three runs in the third and defeated the Indians, 6–3. A double by Billy Williams, walk to Jackson and singles by Joe Rudi, Gene Tenace and Bando produced the tie-breaking tallies.
Dave Chalk and Morris Nettles drove in five runs between them in support of Ed Figueroa, who yielded only four hits and pitched the Angels to a 6–1 victory over the Brewers. Darrell Porter homered for the Brewers’ run in the second inning. The Angels broke ahead in the sixth. After Mickey Rivers singled and Dave Collins doubled across the tying tally, Chalk came up with two out and smashed a two-run homer. Nettles batted in two runs with a single in the seventh and drew a walk with the bases loaded in the eighth for his third RBI of the game.
The Mets scored all their runs on three homers to defeat the Braves, 4–3. The Braves had a circuit clout by Cito Gaston in taking a 3–0 lead before the Mets rallied to tie the score with a single by Ed Kranepool and back-to-back homers by Rusty Staub and Dave Kingman in the sixth inning. Joe Torre broke the tie in the eighth with a round-tripper off Tom House, ending the Atlanta reliever’s string of 28 innings without giving up a run.
In San Francisco, Ted Simmons drove in a run with a double in the ninth inning to give the Cardinals a 1–0 victory over the Giants, with the win going to Al Hrabowsky in relief of John Denny. For the Mad Hungarian, it is the 3rd consecutive Cards game that he’s been the winning pitcher: he also won on July 12, 13. He is the second National League pitcher this year to tie Mike Marshall’s record for consecutive wins. Jim Barr, who had shut out the Cardinals for 32 innings in various appearances since July, 1974, gave up a single by Lou Brock to open the ninth. Bake McBride forced Brock. After Reggie Smith popped up, Simmons hit his double and the speedy McBride galloped home from first base.
Steve Rogers and Dale Murray combined on a shutout and Pepe Mangual and Pete Mackanin hit homers as the Expos ended the Reds’ 10-game winning streak, 3–0. A blister on his pitching finger forced Rogers off the mound after six innings. Mangual homered off Jack Billingham in the first and Mackanin followed with his drive in the fifth. The Expos’ other run counted on a walk to Gary Carter and singles by Barry Foote and Larry Parrish in the sixth.
Alert running by Larry Bowa, who raced home from first base on a sacrifice bunt and wild throw in the 11th inning, brought the Phillies a 6–5 victory over the Astros. Bowa led off the stanza with a single. Jay Johnstone bunted to Doug Rader, who threw to Larry Milbourne covering first, as Bowa advanced. Noting that third base was temporarily unguarded, Bowa kept running and when Milbourne threw wildly, Bowa came home with the winning run.
Hitting safely in his 14th straight game, Dave Parker smashed two homers and drove in three runs as the Pirates defeated the Dodgers, 5–2. Willie Stargell also hit for the circuit in the Pirates’ attack. John Hale batted in both of the Dodgers’ runs with a sacrifice fly and single.
Manny Trillo batted in three runs and scored one to play the leading role as the Cubs edged the Padres, 6–5. Rick Monday homered for the Cubs in the second inning and Trillo scored after hitting a single. The Padres came back with a matching pair in their half on a single by Willie McCovey and homer by Randy Hundley, but the Cubs broke away with three runs in the third. Jose Cardenal doubled and counted on a single by Bill Madlock. After a single by Monday and pass to Andre Thornton loaded the bases, Trillo drove in two runs with a single. Trillo came up again with the sacks filled in the seventh and batted in what proved to be the winning run with an infield out.
Minnesota Twins 3, Baltimore Orioles 6
Kansas City Royals 3, Boston Red Sox 8
Detroit Tigers 0, Chicago White Sox 4
Detroit Tigers 9, Chicago White Sox 1
Oakland Athletics 6, Cleveland Indians 3
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
California Angels 6, Milwaukee Brewers 1
Cincinnati Reds 0, Montreal Expos 3
Atlanta Braves 3, New York Mets 4
Houston Astros 5, Philadelphia Phillies 6
Chicago Cubs 6, San Diego Padres 5
St. Louis Cardinals 1, San Francisco Giants 0
New York Yankees 2, Texas Rangers 7
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 864.28 (-7.83, -0.90%)
Born:
Jason Strudwick, Canadian NHL defenseman (New York Islanders, Vancouver Canucks, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers), in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Charles Jones, NBA point guard and shooting guard (Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Clippers), in Brooklyn, New York, New York.
Elena Anaya, Spanish actress; in Palencia, Spain.
Cecile De France, Belgian actress; in Namur, Belgium.
Terence Tao, Australian-born American mathematician; in Adelaide, Australia.
Konnie Huq, English TV presenter; in Hammersmith, Greater London, England, United Kingdom.
Died:
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, 82, Soviet Georgian writer.
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