Apollo 17 astronauts end moon mission with final lift off
Three American astronauts led by Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt left the Taurus Littrow valley in the Challenger lander as Ronald Evans watched from America. The lunar module performed a controlled ascent, mission control reported Nixon praising the mission and promising continued space exploration.
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AP Aerospace Winter Space Center
Houston
United
Lunar
Challenger
Eugene A. Cernan
Harrison H. Schmitt
America
Reunion
Ronald E. Evans
Mission Control
Moon
Cernan
Schmitt
Earth
Moon Valley
Taurus-Littrow
Evans
Nixon
Cernan and Schmitt
Manned Spacecraft Center
Nixon Kissinger Discuss Vietnam Move Amid Thieu Rift
Nixon held private talks with Henry Kissinger and Gen. Alexander Haig as Washington and Saigon clash over a nine point plan. Thieu opposes parts of the plan including North Vietnamese withdrawal and sovereignty over all of South Vietnam. In Paris talks resumed with recriminations as Kissinger and Tho depart for Hanoi.
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Washington
Nixon
Vietnam
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Henry A. Kissinger
le Duc Tho
Paris
Alexander Hai
Kissinger
Ronald L
Ziegler
Saigon
United States
Thieu
White House
Tho
North Vietnam
Kissinger- Tho
U.S
Hanoi
Heyward Isham
Lincoln Express Sinks Off Puerto Rico After Gypsum Ore Flooding
All but one of 21 crewmen were rescued as the Panamanian registry freighter Lincoln Express sank six miles off Manatí, Puerto Rico, after signaling water intake in a cargo hold. The ship, en route from Haiti to San Juan, went down about 20 miles from the harbor with aid from merchant ships, a British frigate, and U S Coast Guard and Navy forces. A missing crewman remained at press time as the search continued.
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San Juan
P.R
U. S.coast Guard
Haiti
Lincoln Express
Manati
San Juan Harbor
Coast Guard
U. S. Coast Guard
Navy
Judge orders LA Times to hand over Watergate interview tapes
A federal judge ordered the Los Angeles Times and two reporters to surrender tape recordings of an interview with Alfred C. Baldwin III. Subpoenas, issued by Judge John J. Sirica, target material for seven defendants in the Watergate break‑in case. Times and reporters vow to appeal to the Supreme Court if needed.
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Washington
Los Angeles Times
U. S. Dist
John J. Sirica
Times
John Lawrence
Ronald J. Ostrow
Jack Nelson
The
Supreme Court
Alfred C. Baldwin III
Democratic National
Watergate Complex
Bride-To-Be Killed by Bomb Blast in Northern Ireland
A 19 year old bride to be Kathleen Dolan was killed by a bomb blast while returning from mailing wedding invitations in a Northern Ireland village. A second death followed in Belfast when an unidentified youth was shot by assailants on a motorcycle. The violence raised Northern Ireland's death toll to 663 with eight deaths in the past week.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Kathleen Dolan
Missing 57 Pounds of Heroin From French Connection Case
New York police report 57 pounds of heroin from the 1962 French Connection seizure vanished from the department vault. Commissioner Murphy calls it a scandal, blaming inadequate narcotics control as the cause. street value cited at 12 million dollars.
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NEW York
Police Department
Patrick V. Murphy
Murphy
Trustees Plan Kroger Lease Of Athens Airport Land
Ohio University trustees approve leasing 28.6 acres of former airport land in Athens to Kroger Co. for at least 3.5 million over 40 years. Kroger would sublease part to Skilken Properties for a motel and travel trailer park while a restrictive covenant limits competition. Big Bear Stores may later pursue the 29.74 acres set aside for future development.
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Fred Whissel
Columbus
Ohio University Board of Trustees
E. State Street
Athens
Kroger Co
Big Bear Stores Co
Athens Market
Kroger
Ohio Department of Public Works
Skilken Properties of
Big Bear
Public Works Department
al Summers
Department
Sion
Skilken
Department of Public Works
Ohio University
Canadian hijacker surrenders after 102 hour zigzag flight
Larry Maxwell Stanford 21 of Saint John New Brunswick ordered a jetliner to fly a looping route across eastern Canada. He released 57 passengers unharmed before surrendering to his father and a psychiatrist in Montreal after the plane touched down in Ottawa and Montreal.
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Montreal
Canada
Larry Maxwell Stanford
Saint John
N.B
John Stanford
Labrador City
Nfld
Bruno Cormier
Stanford
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Josette Cote
Ottawa
Quebecair
Andre Lizotte
Wabash
West Labrador
Newfoundland
Miss Cote
Condition Remains Serious Truman's Kidneys Failing
Kansas City AP report updates that former President Harry S. Truman, aged 88, battles lung congestion and a weakened heart with kidneys functioning inadequately. Doctors note his condition remains very serious, one step from critical per Research Hospital designation after last Sunday's transfer.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Research Hospital
Wallace Graham
Miller Leading In UMW Vote Amid Ballot Count Delays
insurgent Arnold Miller gains lead in the United Mine Workers election as government counted ballots in Silver Spring Maryland. official figures show Miller with 42,781 votes to Boyle's 33,425 in a court ordered vote.
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Washington
Arnold Miller
United Mine Workers Union
W. A
Tony’’ Boyle
Miller
Silver Spring
Democra
Boyle
Miners For Democracy
Labor Department
Ist Shot At Full Color
The Messenger debuts full color printing using offset on the Goss Urbanite press to enhance open house ads for the Athens National Bank. Three primary colors red blue and yellow form four color images with black. Plates are aligned for accurate reproduction.
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Messenger
Goss Urbanite
Athens National Bank
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