Herbert Whittaker Briggs legal papers, 1940-1986.
Collection Number: 18-2-2371
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Herbert Whittaker Briggs legal papers, 1940-1986.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
18-2-2371
Abstract:
Background documents, court transcripts, other legal documents, notes, correspondence,
and maps relating to cases in which Professor Briggs was involved or consulted.
Creator:
Briggs, Herbert W. (Herbert Whittaker), 1900-1990.
Quanitities:
31.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Herbert Whittaker Briggs was Professor of government and international law at Cornell
University.
The Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company, Limited was a Canadian holding company
incorporated in Toronto in 1911, which, through its various subsidiaries, supplied
the major part of electricity requirements in Catalonia, Spain. The case was brought
before the International Court of Justice for reparation for damage claimed to have
been caused to a number of Belgian nationals, shareholders in the Barcelona Traction,
Light and Power Company, by the conduct of various organs of the Spanish State in
relation to that company and to other companies of its group.
Background documents, court transcripts, other legal documents, notes, correspondence,
and maps relating to cases in which Professor Briggs was involved or consulted. Cases
include the Barcelona Traction Company case, a border dispute between Honduras and
Nicaragua, 1960; a dispute between Chile and Argentina over the interpretation of
the Boundary Treaty of July 23, 1881 relating to the Beagle Channel, 1973-1975; two
cases involving delimitation of the Contintental Shelf between Libya and Tunisia,
ca. 1978-1981, and between Libya and Malta, ca. 1983-1986; a case between the United
States and Canada over the delimitation of the maritime boundary in the Gulf of Maine
area; arbitration between the United Kingdom and French governments on the delimitation
of the Continental Shelf (in the English Channel). Also, working documents for the
United Nations Conference on the Law of Treaties held in Vienna, 1968.
Also, material on the 1964 National Conference of Commissioners, New York State Commission
of Uniform State Laws (1962), drafts of Uniform Commercial Code prior to 1952 and
1960, and preparation for introduction of the code in new York.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Herbert Whittaker Briggs legal papers, #18-2-2371. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Access to Boxes 24-25 (documents on the arbitration between the United Kingdom and
French governments) restricted to the permission of the United Kingdom and France,
67 rue Liotard, 1203 Geneva, Switzerland (the Court Registrar's address).
Names:
Barcelona Traction, Light, and Power Company
International Court of Justice
United Nations Conference on the Law of Treaties, (Location of meeting: Vienna,. Date
of meeting or treaty signing: 1968-1969..)
Places:
France -- Boundaries -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Boundaries -- France.
Continental shelf -- Great Britain.
United States -- Boundaries -- United States.
United States -- Boundaries -- Canada.
Malta -- Boundaries -- Libya.
Tunisia -- Boundaries -- Libya.
Libya -- Boundaries -- Malta.
Libya -- Boundaries -- Tunisia.
Continental shelf -- Libya.
Argentina -- Boundaries -- Chile.
Chile -- Boundaries -- Argentina.
Beagle Channel (Argentina and Chile)
Nicaragua -- Boundaries -- Honduras.
Honduras -- Boundaries -- Nicaragua.
Belgium -- Claims vs. Spain.
Subjects:
Treaties.
Boundaries.
International law.
Form and Genre Terms:
Maps.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Barcelona Traction case
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Box 1 |
Background documents, court transcripts, Reports of Judgments, and other International
Court of Justice documents,
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1953-1969 | |||
Box 2 |
Background and other documents,
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1968-1969 | |||
Box 2 |
Judgments and separate opinions,
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1970 | |||
Box 3 |
High Court of Justice Chancery Division documents, ca.
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1967 | |||
Box 4 |
Public Sittings of the International Court of Justice,
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Apr.-June 1969 | |||
Box 5 |
Public Sittings of the International Court of Justice,
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June-July 1969 | |||
Box 5 |
Supreme Court of Ontario binders (photocopies of older documents)
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Box 6 |
Belgian case documents,
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1959-1967 | |||
Box 7 |
Spanish case documents,
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1960-1965 | |||
Spanish case documents:
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Box 8 |
Preliminary exception folders,
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1963 | |||
Box 8 |
"Documents of Exceptions ..." folders,
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1963 | |||
Box 9 |
Spanish case documents,
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1965-1968 | |||
Box 10 |
H.W. Briggs' files on Barcelona Traction Case
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Series II. Honduras v. Nicaragua border dispute, 1960
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Box 10 |
Consultations, oral pleadings, and correspondence
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Series III. Beagle Channel arbitration between Argentina and Chile
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Box 11 |
Background information, bound court documents, typescript copies of court hearings,
notes and correspondence
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Box 12 |
Background information, bound court documents, typescript copies of court hearings,
notes and correspondence
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Box 13 |
Background information, bound court documents, typescript copies of court hearings,
notes and correspondence
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Box 11 |
Atlas: Chilean Memorial,
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1973 | |||
Box 12 |
Atlas: Chilean Memorial,
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1973 | |||
Box 13 |
Atlas: Chilean Memorial,
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1973 | |||
Box 11 |
Atlas: Chilean Counter-Memorial,
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1974 | |||
Box 12 |
Atlas: Chilean Counter-Memorial,
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1974 | |||
Box 13 |
Atlas: Chilean Counter-Memorial,
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1974 | |||
Box 11 |
Atlas: Chilean Reply,
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1975 | |||
Box 12 |
Atlas: Chilean Reply,
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1975 | |||
Box 13 |
Atlas: Chilean Reply,
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1975 | |||
Box 11 |
Counter Memorial of the Argentine Republic: Charts and Maps I,
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1974 | |||
Box 12 |
Counter Memorial of the Argentine Republic: Charts and Maps I,
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1974 | |||
Box 13 |
Counter Memorial of the Argentine Republic: Charts and Maps I,
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1974 | |||
Box 11 |
Counter Memorial of the Argentine Republic: Charts and Maps II,
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1975 | |||
Box 12 |
Counter Memorial of the Argentine Republic: Charts and Maps II,
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1975 | |||
Box 13 |
Counter Memorial of the Argentine Republic: Charts and Maps II,
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1975 | |||
Box 11 |
Reply of the Argentine Republic: Charts and Maps,
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1975 | |||
Box 12 |
Reply of the Argentine Republic: Charts and Maps,
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1975 | |||
Box 13 |
Reply of the Argentine Republic: Charts and Maps,
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1975 | |||
Series IV. Libyan Continental Shelf cases
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Libya v. Tunisia
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Libya v. Tunisia dispute over land boundary on the Continental shelf includes bound
court documents, oral proceedings, maps, ca.
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1978-1981 | ||||
Box 14 |
Libya v. Tunisia dispute over land boundary on the Continental shelf includes bound
court documents, oral proceedings, maps, ca.
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Box 15 |
Libya v. Tunisia dispute over land boundary on the Continental shelf includes bound
court documents, oral proceedings, maps, ca.
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Box 16 |
Libya v. Tunisia dispute over land boundary on the Continental shelf includes bound
court documents, oral proceedings, maps, ca.
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Libya v. Malta
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Libya v. Malta court documents, correspondence, maps, ca.
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1983-1986 | ||||
Box 16 |
Libya v. Malta court documents, correspondence, maps, ca.
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Box 17 |
Libya v. Malta court documents, correspondence, maps, ca.
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Box 18 |
Libya v. Malta court documents, correspondence, maps, ca.
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Box 19 |
Maps
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Box 20 |
Maps
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Box 21 |
H.W. Briggs' files on both cases
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Series V. U.S. vs. Canada - Gulf of Maine case
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Box 21 |
Briggs' files on the delimitation of the maritime boundary in the Gulf of Maine area
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Box 22 |
Briggs' files on the delimitation of the maritime boundary in the Gulf of Maine area
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Box 21 |
Maps
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Box 22 |
Maps
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Series VI. Vienna Conference of the Law of Treaties
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Working documents for the 1968 U.N. conference
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1968 | ||||
Box 22 |
Working documents for the 1968 U.N. conference
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Box 23 |
Working documents for the 1968 U.N. conference
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Series VII. Arbitration between the United Kingdom and French governments on the delimitation
of the Continental shelf, 1975-1978
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Box 24 |
Court documents and background information
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Access restricted
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Box 25 |
Court documents and background information
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Access restricted
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Box 24 |
Maps
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Access restricted
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Box 25 |
Maps
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Access restricted
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Box 26 | Folder 1 |
"The Attorney General Invokes Rebus Sic Stantibus"
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1941-1942 | ||
Box 26 | Folder 2 |
Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Ltd., "Annals of Finance" - New Yorker, May 28,
1979
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1971, 1979 | ||
Box 26 | Folder 3 |
Beagle Channel Arbitration - Award of Her Britannic Majesty's Government
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1977 | ||
Box 26 | Folder 4 |
Beagle Channel Arbitration between the Republic of Argentina and the Republic of Chile
- maps
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Box 26 | Folder 5 |
Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company, Limited (Second Phase) Judgment
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1970 | ||
Box 26 | Folder 6 |
Continental Shelf - Arbitration between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland and the French Republic on the Delimitation of the Continental Shelf
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1978 | ||
Box 26 | Folder 7-10 |
"Case Concerning the Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libya Arab Jamahiriya)"
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1982 | ||
Box 26 | Folder 11 |
"Case Concerning the Continental Shelf (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya/Malta)" - judgment
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1985 | ||
Box 26 | Folder 12 |
Case Concerning the Continental Shelf (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya/Malta), Application
for Permission to Intervene by the Government of Italy International Court of Justice
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1984 | ||
Box 26 | Folder 13 |
Debate on Neutrality and Destroyer Deal
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1940 | ||
Box 26 | Folder 14 |
Debate on Neutrality and Destroyer Deal - Sale of U.S. Destroyers to England
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1940 | ||
Box 26 | Folder 15 |
(Campus) Debate on Neutrality - Briggs and Willcox - "Neglected Aspects of the Destroyer
Deal (see also International Law)
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1940 | ||
Box 26 | Folder 16-19 |
International Court of Justice Study Group (Paris-Bellagio-Serbelloni)
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1960-1961 | ||
Box 26 | Folder 20 |
International Court of Justice Study Group (C) Bellagio, Villa Serbelloni
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1963 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 1-2 |
International Court of Justice Study Group
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1963 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 3 |
International Law Survey, Report on
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1962 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 4 |
International Law Survey Journal Notes Europe - Africa - Asia
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1961 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 5 |
International Law Survey Journal Notes Latin America
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1962 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 6-7 |
International Law Commission - 1961 Election
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1961 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 8-9 |
International Law Commission - nomination and correspondence
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1954, 1961-1966 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 10-12 |
International Law Commission Drafting Committee
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1963-1965 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 13-15 |
International Law Commission Drafting Committee
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1966 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 16 |
International Law Commission Drafting Committee - Arbitration Agreement United Kingdom
and French Republic
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1975 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 17-19 |
Institut de Droit International - Communications from Secretary General
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1956-1985 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 20 |
"Non-recognition in the Courts: T he Ships of the Baltic Republics", American Journal
of International Law reprint
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1943 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 21-22 |
Reports written by Briggs
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1947-1958 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 23 |
"Re-examination of International Law" -American Journal International Law reprint
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1942 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 24 |
Saudi Arabia and the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco), Arbitration between
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1959, 1966 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 25-28 |
UN Conference on the Law of Treaties, Vienna - mss. and notes of Briggs' speeches
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1968 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 29 |
"United States and Post-War International Organization" in The Impact of the War on
America (Cornell Press)
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1942 | ||
Box 27 | Folder 30 |
"The Validity of the Greenland Agreement"
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Box 28 | Folder 1 |
Arbitral Award Made by the King of Spain, 1906, Oral Proceedings
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1960 | ||
Box 28 | Folder 2 |
Arbitral Award Made by the King of Spain (Honduras v. Nicaragua)
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1960 | ||
Box 28 | Folder 3-6 |
Beagle Channel Arbitration Decision
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1977 | ||
Box 28 | Folder 7 |
Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine Area (Canada v. U.S.A.)
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1984 | ||
Volumes:
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Box 28 |
Beagle Channel Arbitration, Chilean Memorial, ATLAS
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1973 | |||
Box 28 |
ATLAS, Chilean Counter-Memorial, Beagle Channel Arbitration
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1974 | |||
Box 28 |
Argentine Chilean Arbitration concerning the Region of the Beagle Channel, Counter
Memorial of the Argentine Republic, Charts and Maps, vol. I
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1974 | |||
Box 28 |
Argentine Chilean Arbitration concerning the Region of the Beagle Channel, Counter
Memorial of the Argentine Republic, Charts and Maps, vol. II
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1974 | |||
Box 28 |
Argentine Chilean Arbitration concerning the Region of the Beagle Channel, Reply of
the Argentine Republic, Charts and Maps
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1975 | |||
Box 28 |
ATLAS, Chilean Reply, Beagle Channel Arbitration
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1975 |