13 Aug 1971
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1971
Page
1
The dollar slid to a record low in West Germany amid weekend nervousness and market uncertainty. Traders cited preweekend jitters and the Wall Street Journal poll as factors contributing to the slide in European money markets.
Space Center Houston confirms Dr. Harrison H. Schmitt the first scientist astronaut chosen for an American moon mission. He will join Commanding Officer Eugene Cernan and pilot Ronald Evans on Apollo 17 with Schmitt landing on the moon and Evans operating the command ship. Backup crew includes David Scott James Irwin and Alfred Worden. Also notes sharp dollar decline in European markets and Swiss bank interventions to support the currency.
Sen. Michael Maloney will present a $970 million draft for a new income tax plan as a bargaining tool for Ohio fiscal policy in the 1971-73 biennium. It includes a graduated personal tax, a 3 to 5 percent corporate levy, and a homestead exemption for seniors with income under limits, while keeping the intangible and estate taxes.
Linda Jenness 30 and Andrew Pulley 20 were introduced as Socialist Workers Party presidential and vice presidential candidates in Cleveland despite not meeting the 35 year age requirement. Jenness pledged to begin pulling U.S. troops from Southeast Asia in her first hour in office, drawing about 1,000 supporters.
The mission ended with a gentle splashdown as the craft landed about two miles per hour faster than typical but caused no problems for the astronauts aside from a jolting impact.
Apollo 15 experienced one nylon parachute collapse during Pacific splashdown after fuel and oxidizer jettison. officials warn highly corrosive oxidizer can eat nylon. Worden suggests propellant as cause while Scott and Irwin debriefed and viewed the Genesis rock sample recovered from the mission.
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After four days of rioting that left 25 dead and hundreds injured, Northern Ireland saw a lull as British troops and the IRA paused. Catholic refugees fled to the Irish Republic while Protestant areas faced a fragile armistice and police moved to deter militants. Brig. Marston Tickell hailed the ceasefire as a partial victory for government forces.
Gov. George C. Wallace to order the reopening of all black schools closed by federal courts amid desegregation tensions. New Hope grammar school in Limestone County is among those targeted. Wallace cites opposition to massive busing and seeks Nixon administration support. The Civil Rights Commission criticizes Nixon’s stance on busing.
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