Four satellites launched in under three hours at Cape Kennedy
CAPE KENNEDY UPS United States orbited Nimbus 4 weather satellite and Topo-A geodetic craft from Vandenberg while two Titan 3D Vela satellites aimed for 69 000 mile high orbits. The launches precede Apollo 13 moon mission planning with Lovell Mattingly and Haise slated for weekend lift off.
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Cape Kennedy
UPS
United States
California
America
James A. Lovell
Thomas K. Mattingly
Fred Haise
U.S. Space Agency
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
U.S. Army
Nimbus
Defense Department
Air Force
East Coast Space Center
Titan
Vela
Earth
Unanswered Questions After Kopechne Death Probe
Edgartown Mass UPI reports the Dukes County Grand Jury found no action to take in the Mary Jo Kopechne death. The second day of a special investigation session raised more questions than answers about the fourth probe undertaken.
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Edgartown
Mass
UPI
Dukes County Grand Jury
Mary Jo Kopechne
Kopechne
Edward M. Kennedy
Edmund S. Dinis
Leslie H. Leland
Grand Jury
Dinis
Supreme Court
Arena
Svetlana Stalin Weds American Architect
Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin, wed architect William Wesley Peters in a secret Taliesin West ceremony in Phoenix. The 44-year-old and 58-year-old Peters obtained a license and waivers to bypass the three day waiting period amid a high profile match tied to the Wright Foundation.
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Phoenix, Ariz
API
Svetlana Alliluyeva
Josef Stalin
William Wesley Peters
Taliesin West
Frank Lloyd Wright
The
Wright Foundation
Peters
Jovanna Lloyd Wright
Wisconsin
Alliluyeva
United States
Desert Architectural School
Here
Foundation
Wright
Shani Pahlavi
Iran
Soviet Union
Miss Alliluyeva
Supplies Dropped To Besieged Dak Seang Camp
U S cargo planes dropped nine loads of food water and ammunition to the encircled Dak Seang Green Beret camp amid heavy ground fire. North Vietnamese forces may have up to 10 000 troops nearby seeking to sever Highway 14 linking Pleiku and Kontum.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Dak Seang
ARVN
Army of the Republic of
Ben Het Green Beret Camp
South Vietnam
United States
Laos
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Stravinsky rushed to hospital with heart ailment
Igor Stravinsky, 87, was admitted to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York after suffering a heart ailment and pneumonia. Doctors labeled his condition serious but not critical as he remains in coronary care. The composer has been active recording his works for Columbia and writing autobiographical volumes, with Retrospectives and Conclusions published last year.
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New York
UPI
Igor Stravinsky
Lenox Hill Hospital
Columbia Records
Stravinsky
United States
Nixon Tops Dems’ 1970 Election Strategy
Republicans and Democrats align on the main issue of the 1970 midterm vote focusing on President Nixon’s record versus the Democratic Congress. George J. Marder reports Nixon is deeply embedded in party planning despite it not being a presidential year. The article notes the GOP’s effort to leverage his record in upcoming campaigns.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Congress
GOP
White House
Spiro T. Agnew
Lyndon Johnson
Harry Truman
Johnson
Truman
Laos Leaders Weigh Halt to Bombings in Peace Talks
VIENTIANE UPI Prince Souvanna Phouma says he will urge the United States to halt bombing in Laos except along the Ho Chi Minh Trail as part of a cease-fire ahead of Pathet Lao peace talks. He seeks cabinet approval to respond to the five point plan delivered March 22, with North Vietnamese shelling and CIA backed forces at Long Cheng and Bouam Long shaping the fighting context.
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Vientiane
UPI
Souvanna Phouma
United States
Laos
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Pathet Lao
U.S
North Vietnam
Long Cheng
Sao
Vang Pao
Central Intelligence Agency
Tha Tam Bleung
Bouam Long
Plain of Jars
Sam Thong
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da Nang
Phan Rang
George J. Marder
Prince Souphanouvong
Souvanna
Rogers C. B. Morton
Javery
South Street
Remington
Vermont
Ernest H. Javery
Alan H. Page
Ysdale’s
Loyal Nash Estate
Fairview Road
Old Bennington, VI
Ruth Dewey
Joyce Burnham
Grants
Avril
Eastman Chemical Products, Inc
CMLL
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