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Show tion of a shaft mine planned by Cougar Development Corp. of Canada on land outside the wilderness wil-derness area itself. In 1966 Kennecott announced plans to develop a $15 million open pit copper mine in the Glacier Gla-cier Peak area, including a 15-mile access road, dumping site and tailings disposal area. LARAMIE, WYO.(AP)-The director dir-ector of the U.S. Bureau of Mines Petroleum Research Center here says two oil research companies have invited state and federal government gov-ernment officials and about 30 petroleum companies to a technical techni-cal meet in Laramie Wednesday on a proposed project to recover oil from shale reserve by nuclear explosion. Director Gerald Dineen said the meeting would cover problems involved in oil shale recovery and results of research conducted by the bureau of mines center. He said no policy decisions would be made at the meeting. SAIGON(AP)-Bad weather and increased North Vietnamese attacks have slowed the South Vietnamese advance into southern Laos, and the Saigon command reported Tuesday a gain of little more than a mile in the past three days. Most of the enemy attacks were aimed at the 9,000 U.S. troops acting as a blocking force on the South Vietnamese side of the border bor-der in the northern sector of the country. Two ambushes and two ground attacks Monday and Tuesday killed nine Americans and wounded 12. SEATTLE(AP)-Conservationists and economists have halted plans for an open pit copper mine in the heart of northwest Washington's Glacier Peak Wilderness Area, but . the battle over mineral rights and aesthetic values is far from completed. com-pleted. The center of the struggle has moved from the site of the proposed pro-posed Kennecott Copper Corp. mine in Glacier Peak to the loca- |