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A fiducial region was selected and the partial cross section for 33 different final states calculated; This corresponds to a corrected cross sec~ion for identified strange particle events of 950 ± 95 ~b. The total strange particle production cross section is estimated to be 1.8 robe Evidence for N (1236), Yl (138S), Yo (140S), and Yl (1660) formation is presented 0 Data concerning the existence of reported di-baryon resonances in the AN final state is presented, and the conclusion is drawn that no such resonances appear in the A Nand ZN mass distributions of this experiment 0. Finally,.,the .3 body final states are examined in detail. An anomalous peaking is observed in the K+1\\.. invariant mass in the K+P J\\ final state. The simple one pion exchange model does not seem to predi.ct adequately the distribution observed. 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