Apollo 16 heads home after lunar surface mission
Apollo 16 crew John Young Charles Duke and Ken Mattingly fired the Casper engine to begin a 248000 mile return from the moon hoping for a splashdown in the Pacific on Thursday. They noted improved performance and marveled at Earth as Orion was jettisoned and kept on standby for film retrieval.
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Ken” Mattingly
Casper
Earth
Young
Pacific
Mo Tate
Moon
Houston
Orion
Mallingly
Deke Sper
Mander
Weather Outlook With Mild Temperatures Ahead
Fair through tomorrow with highs in the low 70s and a tonight low around the 40s. Westerly winds 10 to 20 mph. Yesterday in Fremont, the high reached 70 and the low fell to 64.
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Newark planning panel weighs upgraded housing plan
Newark planning commissioners tonight will consider upgraded plans for a quality housing development that could impact the adjacent Silver Pines Country Club golf course. A Marin jail dispute over displays between Angela Davis and George Jackson is deemed irrelevant to charges in their defense.
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Siled Pines Country Club
Angela Davis
George Jackson
Marin County
Arson probe in Bellflower after fatal lumber yard fire
Sheriff arson investigators examine glowing ruins of a large lumber yard where a county fireman died as roof collapses sparked a $500000 blaze. Rep Ashbrook challenges Gov Reagan to debate Nixon liberalism for GOP. California voter registration rules face attack at Torrance House hearing.
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Nixon
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Subcommittee On Census and Statistics
GOP weighs moving national convention to Miami Beach
Republican National Chairman Bob Dolce calls a meeting of the National Committee to consider shifting the party's national convention from San Diego to Miami Beach amid an anticipated change in venue. The court drops plans to review the 1966 Miranda decision on confessions. A Nevada suit accuses Storey County Commission of creating a prostitution monopoly by limiting the number of houses operating in an approved area. UAW President Leonard Woodcock accuses the Nixon administration of using U.S. POWs in Vietnam as hostages.
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Storey County Commission
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Leonard Woodcnck
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Vietnam
Viet Cong appeals to U.S. lawmakers to halt war
Viet Cong appeal directly to U.S. senators and representatives urging them to pressure President Nixon to end the Vietnam War and resume negotiations in Paris. The appeal signals campaign diplomacy aimed at shaping U.S. policy.
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Nixon
Paris
Dak To Falls as Viet Forces Retreat in Highlands
South Viet Namese and Dak To base losses amid North Vietnamese advance in the Central Highlands. Bases 5 and 6 abandoned near Kontum as tanks spearhead the push, B-52 and air strikes attempted to slow the offensive, while reports say communists threaten broader control. Pleiku airfield damaged by SAM fire with no casualties. An overrun Dak To leaves provincial capital Kontum at risk as Saigon reports heavy fighting and strategic air activity.
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South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Thanhoa
Hanoi
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Thanh Hoa
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Pleiku
Highlands
Motel project moves forward in Nashville area
Nashville planners consider approving a motel near Mission and Mission Boulevard pending a yearlong construction timeline. Council members also review an appeal from Mission San Jose Venture against a half acre service station plan beside the motel site, with commissioners noting sufficient stations already. In Vietnam news, Da Nang base was attacked again wounding two, with reported casualties at the command post and ongoing clashes elsewhere along the central coast.
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Mission San Jose Venture
da Nang
22Nd Infantry Division
Saigon
Council Eyes Los Arboles Plan Again at Gemco Site
Fremont council weighs the Los Arboles Shopping Center proposal by former mayor Jack Stevenson as Gemco designs face debate. Key issues split over whether updated interior mall features violate earlier approved plans and require new hearings, with Alec Land appealing the decision.
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Fremont
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Los Arboles
Gemco
Coun
Lampert
Alec Land
Alec Dis
Stevenson
McGovern predicts victory in Massachusetts and possibly Pennsylvania
United Press reports on the eve of two key primaries that Senator George McGovern expects to win Massachusetts and potentially Pennsylvania. McGovern Humphrey and Muskie spent the final campaigning day in Pennsylvania with McGovern touting a strong volunteer base, Humphrey touring steel and mining areas, and Muskie courting Philadelphia.
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George
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Pennsylvania
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Edmund S. Muskie
Keystone
Massachussets
Humphrey
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Sylvania
West Chester
Pittsburgh
Muskie Weno
S of Pennsylvania
Millen Kapp
Philadelphia
UPI
Steve Gerstel
Met
Gerstel
Rescue that wasn't at Equitable Building
UPI report describes a rescue at the Equitable Building in St. Louis where two workers Dan Troll and Larry Wade were stranded on a 15th floor cenfolding. Fire engines and police responded. the men said they never sought help after being lowered to safety. A bystander misread gestures as a dangerous threat.
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Equitable
Dan Troll
Larry Wade
Peaceful Salt Lake antiwar march flows downtown
Thousands of protesters marched through Salt Lake City in an orderly antiwar demonstration entering its second week. A few scattered clashes erupted elsewhere as crowds waved Stop the bombing and Stop the war signs. Police reported minor arrests in several cities including Madison and Berkeley while other campuses faced sit ins and blockades.
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Chicopee
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Milwaukee
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Cambridge
Mas
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