Opinion August 9, 1976, Forty Years Ago: Work On Viking
This gave scientists new hope of rechecking of data on possible Martian life already transmitted by the spacecraft.
The vital arm of the Viking I spacecraft, used to scoop up soil from Mars for tests, has been freed after being stuck for four days, according to project scientists. This gave scientists new hope of rechecking of data on possible Martian life already transmitted by the spacecraft.
Kissinger’s Warning
US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger flew into Lahore to warn Pakistan that it risks losing all American economic and military aid if it goes with the purchase of plutonium-producing equipment from France. Pakistan has contracted to buy French atomic fuel reprocessing facilities that would produce ingredients for atomic weapons.
PLO Funds Frozen
Jordan has frozen the account of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation at the Arab Bank in Amman, Farouk Kaddoumi, head of the PLO political arm, said in Beirut. In an interview with a Lebanese weekly, Kaddoumi said there were “several hundred thousand” Jordanian dinars in the account. The account is used to pay the wages of PLO members who are stationed in Jordan and help the families of alestinians held prisoner in “occupied territory”.
CIA’s Mobster Killed
John Roselli, the second of the Chicago gangland bosses who tried to arrange the slaying of Cuban Premier Fidel Castro back in the 1960s, has been murdered, officials in Miami revealed. His badly decomposed body, unidentified for two days, was found in a barrel floating in Dumfoundling Bay between northern Miami and Miami beach by fishermen. The murdered gang boss had been one of Chicago mafia leader Sam Giancana’s top lieutenants when the two were recruited to arrange Castro’s assassination on behalf of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the AFP report said.
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