Findlay Republican Courier (Newspaper) - April 18, 1970, Findlay, Ohio today and In 7:11 Saturday April 18, 1970 Come In For Dramatic IN FOR A SAFE LANDING Pictures taken from CBS monitor screen show the televised landing of the Apollo 13 gently carried down by coming in for a safe landing in the Pacific early Friday Sen. Stuart announced with regret Friday that he has agreed to the release of secret testimony on U.S. involvement in the war in Laos with about 10 per cent of the factual information still 600 pages of testimony before his Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on U.S. security commitments abroad is being made public Monday after a six-month battle with the White House and the State to release enough of the hearings to make them is one thing to keep silent about a covert Symington told a news another to keep from the American people a war that has cost them billions of and what is more American that he had never seen a more time-consuming effort than the declassification of the Laos and that State Department representatives had given him a Symington said U.S. participation in the war in Laos has been kept secret long past the ' time when it should have been made a matter of public now agree to the publication of this he regret the omission of certain factual information the executive branch thought it necessary to withhold from the Russia Hold First Meeting On Nuclear The United States and the Soviet Union held their first negotiations Friday on limiting their nuclear power and settled down for tough first business session in the Strategic Arms Limitation place at the Soviet Embassy in the same room where President John F. Kennedy had his encounter nine years ago with Soviet Premier Nikita session in the heaVily curtained room lasted about one hour and 15 minutes and the atmosphere was described as YORK An American Jewish leader Friday said he welcomed a declaration by Julius Cardinal of that the Oberammergau Passion Play needs further revision to eliminate anti-Jewish Soldiers Kill N. USS TWO JIM A Days of cold and peril three tired American astronauts splashed down to a landing in the Pacific safe at last in the warmth of their home doctor who examined the spacemen only minutes after their return to earth reported that astronaut Fred W. Haise Jr. was suffering from a mild urinary tract infection and had a low grade fever of 100.6. Keith of the said the astronauts were in good were considerably more tired than the other crews I have been associated said Dr. for being I think they are all in good went right to bed after a medical examination and a Astronauts James A. Jr. and John L. Swigert Jr. the space craft which had carried them back from a in The command ship was placed on the deck of this carrier and the spent a few minutes inside its Cold To Sleep Dr. Baird said all three of the astronauts complained that it was too cold for them to sleep in space and that was why they were All had lost five to 10 pounds of received an Dr. Baird after an above average increase in white blood cells was discovered and went to bed doctor said he recommended rest for Lovell and Swigert and THE ASSOCIATED soldiers opened fire in a detention camp ih flie southern city of Takeo survivors reported that more than 100 Vietnamese outcasts in a hostile were survivors told Western correspondents that the Cambodians entered the camp four times beginning Thursday night and ending Friday morning and fired without shot and shot and said a weeping 16-year-old survivor said the Cambodians came around with trucks and loaded them up with correspondents reached the scene they found 13 gravely wounded lying unattended in a camp There was a hospital 100 yards was the second reported massacre of Vietnamese living in Last at least 73 Vietnamese civilians ' were killed in a detention camp at in eastern the bodies of at least 500 Vietnamese were seen this week floating down the Mekong River south of Phnom the either the victims of the army or armed Cambodian peasants or the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk on March 18, the 400,000 Vietnamese residents in Cambodia have been under constant mainly because the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese along the border have been attacking the Cambodian have been Vietnamese villages have been and their possessions stolen by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces continued their advance in apparently ignoring harassing attacks by South forces who have moved across the a provincial capital 54 miles south of Phnom was imperiled by enemy forces who moved to within nine Of USS IWO JIMA Astronaut John L. Swigert who hasn't filed his 1969 income tax got this cheery greeting Friday from swimmer Ernest Jahncke upon opening the hatch of the Apollo 13 command got an IRS Internal Revenue Service man on board looking for who was a substitution for Kenneth was given an extension on filing his return because he was out of the the city after overrunning three military officials rapidly expanding only 35,000 badly needs arms to meet the 60,000 or so seasoned North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers in Premier Lon Nol appealed for arms this week and Washington is considering the turned down Lon request on the grounds that as cochairman of the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina it would be inappropriate to furnish military few weapons to were on the move elsewhere in the Indochina More South Vietnamese troops streamed across the border at the Highway 1 crossing point 42 miles northwest of where they have joined the Cambodians in attacks on North Vietnamese bases 1,200 U.S. troops were moved up to the South Vietnamese side of the border to relieve the departing South Vietnamese and to act as a blocking force should the North Vietnamese try to enter South sources said about 2,000 South Vietnamese with hundreds of tanks and armored are operating inside Cambodia in this area but have made no contact with the North Vietnamese since a battle two days military sources said in the that North Vietnamese soldiers have been out of the southern part of and appear headed either for Cambodia or South latest intelligence reports indicate the North Vietnamese are troops who have been guarding the Ho Chi Minh trail on thp west against Laotian They were not believed to be part of the normal replacement forces that use the trail to go from North to South Breaks Ship In Two At South Africa An explosion apparently ripped a tanker in two and surviving crewmen huddled Saturday on the stern section of the buffeted by gale force winds and heavy bad weather frustrated efforts by rescue ships to reach the broken which was not in the Indian Ocean 130 miles northeast of The number of crewmen on board was not THE ASSOCIATED strikes by truck drivers continued unabated in key cities the country forcing several manufacturers to curtail production and lay off employes while awaiting new the Association of Commerce and Industry warned that as many as 350,000 persons would be out of work by Monday if the strike and in Cleveland 13,000 workers released since the walkout have applied for unemployment Associated of filed a damage suit against four members of Teamsters Local 24, alleging their walkout was in violation of the union's national other labor striking teachers voted 274-50 to return to their jobs in ending a week-long dispute over the school integration Other teachers remained off the job in Los Angeles and Minneapolis in nearly deadlocked disputes over wages and working New where the threat of a city-wide newspaper strike new labor problems loomed Friday when union craftsmen launched a three-day strike against New York Telephone in the and The walkout stemmed from a dispute over security for workers in areas of high called April 5 in defiance of a tentative nationwide contract settlement increasing wages an hour over three has slowed production in key heavy industries in many reported an layoff of 7,000 company workers in St. Los Angeles and and General Motors said it had released 7,000 workers at two plants in St. The Kopechne papers were ordered to be indefinitely in a ruling issued Friday by Judge Wilfred J. Paquet Suffolk Superior Paquet said his order will remain in effect as long as any litigation is pending in connection with making copies of the transcript and the inquest report in the death of Mary Joe who drowned last July 18. Viewers Make Up The Biggest TV Audience To A foreign audience in the millions watched live coverage Friday of the crippled Apollo 13's splashdown and the three astronauts safe return to pictures carried via satellite were fed through Britain to the Soviet Union and 22 other countries throughout the European continent and North spokesman at headquarters of the European Broadcasting Union in Geneva said it looked like the biggest television audience of all television and radio stations extended their programs into the early morning hours of Saturday to broadcast the many people sought and got permission ' More Lucky Than Unlucky In Houston Fortune may have frowned on Apollo 13, but it Unlucky 13 had luck when it was needed fortune had really wanted to be there were dozens of circumstances which could have been changed only slightly and awarded unforgiving space a tragic luckiest stroke for Apollo 13 was in the explosion come two days after the lunar module had landed on the there would have been no hope of the astronauts ever returning to accident that wracked Apollo 13 Monday night destroyed the main rocket the powerful service propulsion It would have been unable to rocket the spacecraft out of lunar the descent engine been used up in a moon the astronauts would have been trapped on or about the was ready to bring them according the description of the blew out one whole side of the service one of the two oxygen tanks in the service module Had the first blow up triggered an explosion of the second it may have ended any the tank vented into space from an apparently small allowed the astronauts time to transfer to the lunar module and turn on its oxygen and are other pressure tanks in the service including two huge tanks carrying the highly explosive propellants for the They are hyperbolic that they explode when they come They do this in a controlled way in the rocket giving they been combined in an uncontrolled fashion by the astronauts James A. ggn tank a resulting and Fred W. Haise Jr. had been on the moon when the explosion they would have had the choice of perishing on the moon as the lunar module oxygen and power ran or rocketing into luriar linking up John L. Swigert Jr. in the command and losing their life there with Swigert would have had no Odyssey would have become an endlessly orbiting the explosion April 13 occurred while the men were moving toward the The lunar was still attached to The moon lander's engines were unfired and its oxygen and water supplies were still the accident destroyed the service propulsion Court Nominee Bared His Stock Ties In Minn. Judge Harry A. said Friday he told the White House about his minor stock ties in three court rulings before he was named to fill the empty seat on the Supreme specifically myself brought he is only I think the Senate committee should be aware of said he took part in three decisions by the U.S. ANGELES - The trial of six charged killing actress Sharon Tate and six others was Friday and a new was assigned to preside at the trial starting June 15. It had to begin mw be the I assure said JUdge George M. in charge of tte court of Appeals between 1960, and 1967 involving in which he held The cases came before the recent uproar over stock holdings and activities of 4>;'0f he in the more tense atmosphere of recent we just don't do 61-year-old judge discussed each of the cases freely at a hometown news conference Friday and volunteered details about a fourth case in he bought stock shortly after his said he had sifted the fUes of 9QP cases in which he has participated as a federal judge in the last 11 years and had asked that any stock links placed before the Senate Judiciary panel is scheduled to open its hearings April 29 on the choice of President Nixon for the on the 4 could have destroyed the craft explosion of the oxygen tank could have caused damage to the heat shield on the command Shards of metal could have impacted the When Odyssey returned to these shrapnel pieces could have caused the shield to fail and subjected the spacecraft hull to be exposed to degrees of heat on re entry to the none of these and in fact many others that were could have been when it did deal its there was the intelligence and planning of the space agency control team and of astronauts Swigert and Haise to fight used what was left to They created new They found a They stretched out sharply limited efforts were the real of unlucky 13. their jobs early at in order to be able to watch the final moments of the Some who usually take a three-hour lunch stayed in their shops to watch on television and crowds gathered at the shops that remained Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau of Canada messaged to President Nixon his country's of great Archbishop of primate of the Church of said he shared relief and admiration of everybody at the news of the safe outcome of such a courageous and frightening Cardinal Roman Catholic archbishop of said the Pope Paul VI stood and offered a prayer of thanks as soon as he saw on the television set in his apartment that the parachutes had bring the capsule safely South Prime Minister John Vorster interrupted a political meeting to tell a packed audience the three Apollo 13 astronauts were back on earth after their hazardous the world so many people have probably never prayed so much for the safety of these three men during the past three Vorster want to take this opportunity to congratulate the American nation and their President with their feat of bringing these people pubs around Britain there had only been one topic of conversation all Would they make were cheers and all around when the Apollo capsule splashed in the had been a cliffhanger to the and there was a vast sigh of relief when the capsule finally hit the With Abducting Brazil Police announced Friday the arrest of three men charged with the attempted kidnaping April 5 of U.S. Consul Curtis C. They showed three suspects at a news conference and said they had been taken into custody several days Alaskan Abortion Alaska Gov. Keith Miller Friday vetoed a that would have provided Alaska with an abortion law virtually free of Copy 10c 50c News News any objections to my advice at astronauts will tell their story to the world at a news conference Tuesday after they return to Apollo 13 spacemen dropped out of a partly cloudy their orange and white chuts billowing in the South Pacific were within sight of the cheering sailors on this testimony to the courage and expertise that rescued them from smiling and walking steadily on the carrier an hour later avoided the set-up The only - word from them was relayed by a helicopter pilot from Lovell who said they felt were back from moments of extreme from long hours of chilled by cabin temperatures in the tired by the constant battle to keep their battered ship trials began Monday night when an oxygen tank in their service module exploding with it hopes for a lunar and putting the lives in their safe return was as if the prayers of a planet were were cheers in Mission cheers at Grand Central Terminal in New York City where crowds had gathered to watch on President announced he would fly to Hawaii Saturday to present the astronauts with the Medal of But first he will stop in Houston to pick up the wives of astronauts Lovell and Haise so that they can meet husbands in his stop in Houston he will present the Medal of Freedom to the Apollo 13 ground President proclaimed Sunday as a day of national prayer and He paid tribute to the courage and also to the ingenuity and resourcefulness of those on the ground who helped transform potential tragedy into m stopping spidery moon lander deprived of its moments of glory on the found a glory of a different Sole Protector It alone stood between the astronauts and its its its fragile shell were the margin of survival for Haise and flight they ejected the craft 11:43 a.m. Their only words said Mission Control as the craft floated as something else needed to be Capsule Dr. Joseph in Mission Control And we thank Monday Haise and Swigert had traveled more than 300,000 mUes to get home again their planned exploration of the moon's surface only so much lost the happy ending Friday came with an amazingly accurate landing considering the crippled nature of the command the first time in any American space flight a television camera in a recovery helicopter caught the main parachutes opening over the plummeting spacecraft and flashed that picture to millions watching on three minutes after a helicopter was Within moments frogmen dropped into the attached a sea anchor to prevent adrift and a flotation collar to stabilize the charred spaceship in the then three to the for the ride to the ibW - Apodo 13 astronaut Fred HaiM climbs into raft as Navy swim team leader holds open hatch of module lor astronaut in after the 'A V 8])li;ydid down to in the W stili the capsule and is not ing photo at right is To Open Road due on several highways in Hancock County page CM Reports Are reports many current members have not renewed memberships page Activities Will Kiwanis Oub will stage annual Pancake Day at FHS all day today page Shine In handled by cast page In Prague In May To Sign Czechoslovak Communist party leader Gustav Husak said Friday night Soviet officials will come to Prague next month to sign the new ES will Iw the site Aht a summtt of nonaligned later jsm w tlM
