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DETROIT, July 18--Ronald Reagan today spent his first full day of the general election campaign hailing Republican unity, which he will need for the next 110 days if he is to win the White House.

PARIS, July 18--Several armed men attempted to assassinate Shahpur Bakhtiar, the former Iranian Prime Minister, here today. Dr. Bakhtiar, a leading opponent of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's rule, was unhurt, but two other persons were killed and four wounded. Three gunmen were captured.

WASHINGTON, July 18--Richard I. Queen returned to Washington today to a warm welcome from high Governmnent officials. He was in evident good spirits but walking unsteadily as a result of the illness that brought him freedom after 250 days as a hostage in Iran.

WOODSTOCK, N.Y., July 18--The four candidates for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate from New York, meeting for the first time in debate today, differed gently on some issues but mainly set themselves apart by what they chose to emphasize.

PHILADELPHIA, July 18--A threejudge Federal court ruled here today that the Selective Service Act was unconstitutional because it excluded women.

HAMHUNG, North Korea, July 18-- The President of North Korea said today during a conversation with a Brooklyn Congressman that his country no longer would insist that South Korea repeal a tough anti-Communist law as a condition for bilateral talks on humanitarian issues.

WASHINGTON, July 18--The nation's economy declined at an annual rate of 9.1 percent from April through June, the Government reported today.

ALBANY, July 18--Two bald eagle chicks have been born to a pair of eagles that were released in an upstate wilderness area four years ago in an experiment designed to restore the bald eagle population of the state.

Cathlyn P. Wilkerson, expressing a wish to begin a new life after 10 years in the terrorist Weather Underground, pleaded guilty in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday to unlawful possession of dynamite in connection with a 1970 explosion that killed three persons and reduced her father's Greenwich Village town house to rubble.

LUBLIN, Poland, July 18 (Reuters)-- Troops and policemen delivered food to Lublin today as strikers blockaded the railroad station and halted transport and other services.

TEHERAN, Iran, July 18--Like lecturers in statistics all over the world, a Teheran college teacher began a freshman course in the theory of probability with an example of dice. In Islamic revolutionary Iran that was unwise.

TEHERAN, Iran, July 18 (Reuters) --Seven men and a woman were hanged on a Teheran street before dawn today for narcotics offenses and other crimes. The bodies were left on the gallows for four hours.