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1973
 
     
Paul Newman and Robert Redford star in the film The Sting        
1973
 
     
The score of the film The Sting revives interest in Scott Joplin and ragtime        
1973
 
    
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow conjures up weird events in wartime London       
1973
 
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The Polisario is formed to fight for the independence of Western Sahara       
1973
 
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Winning power in a military coup, Juvenal Habyarimana begins a 21-year spell as dictator in Rwanda      
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1973
 
    
The career of virtuoso cellist Jacqueline du Pré's is cut short by multiple sclerosis       
1973
 
     
The Watergate scandal claims its first senior victims with the resignation of two of Nixon's closest advisers, Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman        
1973
 
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A military coup plunges democratic Uruguay into eleven years of repressive terror     
1973
 
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A military coup deposes Zahir Shah and brings to an end the hereditary monarchy in Afghanistan      
1973
 
   
Likud is formed in Israel as an alliance of right-wing parties