PLAN PROBE FOR MOST ANCIENT ROCKS ON MOON
Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt sleep after preparing a lunar science camp in Taurus Littrow. They plan a night rover mission to a South Massif rock slide seeking rocks dating to lunar formation about 4.6 billion years ago. Ronald Evans operates instruments aboard America.
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Mission Control
Eugene A. Cernan
Harrison H. Schmitt
Rover
Cernan
America
Ronald E. Evans
Moon
Orit
Schmitt
Challenger
Truman's vital signs unstable at hospital stay
Former President Harry S. Truman, age 88, remained in serious condition at Research Hospital and Medical Center after lung congestion led to critical status. Doctors reported unstable respiration pulse and temperature overnight with oxygen support and no posted vital counts.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Research Hospital and Medical Center
Truman
Bess
Margaret Truman Daniel
Wallace Graham
Research Hospital
Graham
Classified ad for household goods sale cancellation
For sale advertisement offers all wool carpet and a new drill with contact numbers. The notice states the ad ran one day instead of two and prompts readers to call a different number for quick action in selling household items.
New Stillwater rules target order after prison shakedown
Minnesota Corrections Commissioner David Fogel announces 44 new Stillwater Prison rules effective Dec 1 to curb threats and protests. Eleven inmate leaders criticize the policy while staff promise review and possible tweaks. A separate Austin Snow Emergency Parking Ordinance takes effect today for 72 hours with odd even day restrictions.
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Stillwater, Minn
Minnesota
David Fogel
Stillwater
Fogel
Austin
Sterling Shopping Center
Hormel Plant Area
East Side
Detroit Police Commissioner Thrown During Parade Ride
Detroit Police Commissioner John F. Nichols was unseated when his mount Marielle balked causing him to fall on the pavement as he prepared to lead a parade. He said he was OK and rode another horse to finish the hour long procession despite bruises.
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Detroit
John F. Nichols
Nichols
Marielle
Apollo 17 Moonwalk Opens With Flag and First View
Cernan and Schmitt begin surface expeditions on Taurus Littrow, aiming to cover over 20 miles and collect about 200 pounds of rock. They deploy the American flag, share first Moon TV view with Mission Control, and describe a muddy, playful first steps in the low gravity.
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Cernan
Schmitt
Lunar
Mission Control
Earth
Taurus-Littrow
Mission Control Center
U.S
Mankind
East Side Committee Selects NDP Nominating Group
In northeast Austin a 200 strong meeting in City Council Chambers formed a nominating committee for the Neighborhood Development Program Project Area. Members named include Don Majerus George Garrity Pat Wiseman Fred Vogel and others. The group will ballot residents for the Project Area Committee to advise the Housing Authority on redevelopment.
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NDP
Northeast Austin
Red Cedar River
Austin
Leo Reding
East Side Merchants
Housing Authority
Kermit Mahan
Don Majerus
George Garrity
Pat Wiseman
Fred Vogel
Paul Hallman
David Buxton
Dick Lang
Ethel Bushaw
Eldora Huffman
Kissinger Tho Expand Subcommittees In Peacemaking Effort
In Gif-sur-Yvette Kissinger and Le Duc Tho opened a new subcommittee phase to refine possible peace terms. The two leaders met with top deputies and technical experts as Bangkok and Paris hint at a nearing agreement while Thieu proposes prisoner releases and extended cease-fire talks.
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Michael Goldsmith
Paris
Henry A. Kissinger
North Vietnam
le Duc Tho
Gif-sur-Yvette
Kissinger
Peking
Chou En-lai
Bangkok
U.S
Leonard Unger
Thailand
William J. Porter
William Sullivan
Xuan Thuy
Ngueyen Co Thach
Tho
NSP plant site decision rests with EQC
The Environmental Quality Council will decide where a 1600 megawatt NSP coal plant should be built after the Governor's Task Force on Power Plant Siting recommended Sherburne County or near Henderson in Sibley County. If NSP buys Manitoba Hydro capacity its site recommendation may be reopened. The report notes Jordan as a third possibility and urges a review of land-use plans before major decisions.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Northern States
The
Environmental Quality Council
EQC
Sherburne County
Henderson
Sibley County
Roland Comstock
NSP
Jordan
Manitoba
Sherburne
Heavy Snow Warned for Southeast Minnesota
The National Weather Service issued a heavy snow warning for extreme southeastern Minnesota with four inches or more expected in the southeast today. Scattered light snow flurries were possible in the west and north, and most areas could see similar conditions tonight. Temperatures will remain cold with highs near 22 and overnight lows around 10 below.
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Minneapolis
Minn
National Weather Service
Minnesota
Two Blue Earth Boys Die In Bicycle Accident
Two brothers Carl Dietrich aged 10 and Craig Dietrich aged 7 from Blue Earth were struck head on while riding double on an unlighted bicycle on U S 16 east of Blue Earth. The driver June Smith 61 and the boys foster parents were treated for shock at a local hospital.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Highway Patrol
Carl Dietrich
Craig
Blue Earth
U.S. 16
June Smith
Tilmer Schiller
Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
St. Louis Park
Leonard M. Brausen
Blaine
U.S. 65
Haitian refugees land in Florida in leaky sailboat
A 56 foot sailboat carrying 65 Haitian refugees grounded near luxury condos in Pompano Beach. Police describe the crowded craft as packed like sardines with elderly passengers and a five months pregnant 22 year old woman. Twelve refugees said they bribed jail officials to flee. Minnesota seeks two state officials at salaries up to 80 000 a year for the LEAP program run by the governor’s office.
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Florida
Pompano Beach
Fla
Minneapolis
Minnesota
LEAP
North Vietnamese battalion flees toward Cambodia
Government troops harry a retreating North Vietnamese battalion as air strikes and artillery pummel the unit through jungle terrain toward the Parrot's Beak area in Cambodia. South Vietnamese infantry press the pursuit.
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Saigon
Parrot's Beak
Cambodia
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Winter Space Center
Houston
Martin Hartwell
Arctic
Edmonton
Yellowknife
Lionel Raines
Moon Lab
Barbara Cernan
Texas
Oakland Pl. SE
7Th Dr
Nguyen van Thieu
Anl Viet Cong
Blue Earth Brothers
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