Apollo 14 lands on the moon in precise feat
Alan B Shepard and Edgar Mitchell achieved a near perfect lunar touchdown aboard Antares near Fra Mauro, deploying a $25 million atomic observatory and planting the Stars and Stripes. They corrected a faulty abort switch, took manual control, and conducted a five hour moonwalk with Nixon inviting them to the White House.
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Godspeed
White House
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Shepard
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Mitchell
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Stuart A. Roosa
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Fra Mauro
Cooly
Louise Shepard
Houston
Louise
Ground Control
America
Cape Canaveral
Cape Kennedy
Mideast cease-fire extended amid U N talks and canal plan
The 30 day cease-fire along the Suez Canal is extended to push U N sponsored indirect peace talks forward. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat proposed reopening the canal to maritime traffic and urged real progress, while Israel weighed a mutual troop pullback though Arab diplomats reject Egyptian withdrawal.
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Suez Canal
U.N
Gunnar V. Jarring
New York
Moshe Dayan
Washington
Middle East
Egypt
Golda Meir
Sadat
Tel Aviv
Vermont eyes mercury probe pilot area study
Vermont environmental officials may ask the federal government to make the state a pilot area for an intensive mercury contamination study. Planning director Forrest Orr notes a forthcoming state mercury study and seeks federal funds for a continuing toxic metals monitoring program. He cautions a state operated system is unlikely this year due to budget issues and government reorganization. The study, begun last summer after tainted fish were found, did not identify a single major source but is seen as pioneering.
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UPI
Vermont
Forrest Orr
State Environmental Agency
Orr
Deane Davis
Journey to Hanoi and a peace declaration visit
Fifteen U.S. students from the National Student Association traveled to North Vietnam in December to draft a peace declaration with Vietnamese students. Joe Pichirallo reports on the trip from Moscow to Hanoi, the two weeks there, and the planned May 1 peace drive. The group toured Hanoi and nearby provinces, witnessed bomb-damaged areas, and noted the city’s French colonial architecture amid wartime tension.
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National Student Association
Joe Pichirallo
Daily
Californian
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Berkeley
NSA
Ann Arbor
Mid
Moscow
Tashkent
Karachi
Calcutta
Vientiane
Hanoi
United States
Vietnam Committee For Solidarity
Quat
U.S. Es
Red River
Long Bien
Ninh Binh
Quang Ninh Province
China
Saigon Readies Push Into Laos and Cambodia Against Communists
Nearly 20,000 South Vietnamese troops swept into Cambodia in a major drive against Communist forces in the Fishhook and Parrot's Beak regions. Another 29,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops stood at the Laotian border for a potential strike on the Ho Chi Minh trail. Saigon officials cited 69 Communist deaths in a noon battle east of Kampong Cham, as the operation expanded toward Laos with a possible aim at cutting the trail feeding Communists in South Vietnam and Cambodia. Meanwhile, rockets near Phnom Penh and Shrike missile activity over North Vietnam were reported, with clashes on the Plain of Jars in Laos.
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Saigon
UPI
Cambodia
Fishhook
U.S
Kampong Cham
Vietnam
Khe Sanh
Laos
South Vietnam
Leon Daniel
Phnom Penh
Air Force
North Vietnam
Vientiane
Prolonged fight over amending Vermont constitution expected
Vermont Senate actions signal a long fight on proposed amendments to the state constitution. A three hour session with eight roll calls approved the second amendment on state officer elections, while the third proposal to end the ten year time lock faced postponement. The vote outcomes favored keeping electable offices and included a pivotal change allowing auditors to be elected. House actions included a 1.5 million supplemental appropriations bill and a local school district transportation bill.
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General Assembly
Senate
Deane C. Davis
Russell Niquette
D-Chittenden-Grand Isle
Senate Judiciary Committee
Commission
House
House Government Operations Committee
Davis
Bennington Speed Limit Bill Die in Committee
In Montpelier the House Municipal Corporations Committee killed a bill that would let Bennington Selectmen set sub twenty mile per hour school zone limits. Sponsored by Rep. David Allen of Bennington, the measure would have required charter changes and was requested by Bennington School District directors seeking 15 mph zones at school crossings.
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Montpelier
Bennington
House Municipal Corporations Committee
David Allen
R-31
McCarthy accuses Nixon of seeking military victory
Former Sen Eugene J McCarthy accuses the Nixon administration of using allied troop buildups on the South Vietnam border to push a military victory that he says would become a political gain in 1972. He spoke as opponents blasted a six day news blackout.
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Eugene J. McCarthy
South Vietnam
Nixon
McCarthy
Indochina
Laos
University of Pennsylvania
Ronald Ziegler
White House
U.S
Sen
Adlai Stevenson III
San Francisco
Stevenson
George S. McGovern
New York births rise despite abortion law change
Albany Medical Center reports 1,547 births in 1970, eightieth more than 1969, despite New York State liberalizing abortion laws. The facility cites 893 abortions after July 1. The article also notes UPI coverage of U.S. border operations and White House responses to the Laos matter.
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Albany, N.Y
Inside Migrant Workers Dow Work Welfare
An excerpt references migrant workers downgrading welfare and hints at labor and welfare policy debates. The note appears as page 2 content from a broader newspaper issue.
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American College of Cardiology
John Lungren
William Sodeman
Congress
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
Mueang Pot
Plain of Jars
Sam Thong
Phou Mok
Central Intelligence Agency
Long Cheng
Mt. Tabor
Burlington
M.p.h. Bill
N.Y
McGovern
Ellen Cronan Rose
James Reston
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