Soyuz 6 Ends Flight After Welding Tests
Moscow says Soyuz 6 with cosmonauts Georgy Shonin and Valery Kubasov completed a four day mission testing experimental welding in space. The craft landed 100 miles northwest of Karaganda after depressurization experiments while two other ships and five cosmonauts remain in orbit. The mission aimed to evaluate methods for assembling a future space station.
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Tass
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Shonin
Chavez charges Pentagon tries to bust boycott
Cesar Chavez leader of the United Farm Workers says table grape sales fell 30 percent this year. He claims the Defense Department is buying more grapes to break the farm workers strike, noting Rhode Island retailer Almac's Inc. still selling California grapes.
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Cesar Chavez
California
Chavez
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
Urban Priests’ Alliance
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Almac’s, Inc
Rhode Island
President of Somalia Assassinated in Drought Region
Somali President Dr Abdi Rashid Ali Shermarke was shot in Las Anod by a man in a police uniform. A policeman Abdulkadir Abdi was arrested as the suspected assassin. The killing occurred near the Ethiopian border on the eve of Shermarke’s 50th birthday, prompting a dusk to dawn curfew in Mogadishu. The National Assembly leader Sheik Muktar Mohamed is set to assume power per the constitution. Prime Minister Mohammed Haji Ibrahamin Ega was en route from California to Somalia after news of the assassination.
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Somalia
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Abdulkadir Abdi
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Las Anod
Radio
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Sheik Muktar Mohamed
Mohammed Haji Ibrahamin Ega
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United States
U.N. General Assembly
New York
West Coast
Shermarke
Texas
US Deaths Down as Viet Cong Losses Fall
In Vietnam last week American battlefield deaths stayed near three-year lows while enemy losses fell to a year’s low. US and Saigon government fatalities totaled 2 and 384 respectively with 1,687 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese killed. Wounded: 573 Americans and 1,000 South Vietnamese. South Vietnamese casualties rose sharply, and Moscow signed another aid deal with North Vietnam. Peter Will, a British captain, was released after 17 months in China.
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Hanoi
Pope and Astronauts Meet Pope Paul VI at Vatican
Apollo 11 crew Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins met Pope Paul VI at the Vatican for a private audience and shown moon mission slides to the Synod of Bishops. Dissident European priests protested from a shadow synod nearby while bishops debated collegiality and papal advisory roles.
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Paul
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Edwin Aldrin
Episcopal Group Opposes Church Aiding Blacks
A group within the Episcopal Church likens the Black Manifesto to Hitler and urges members to withdraw funds after $200,000 was allocated to a black oriented program. The Foundation for Christian Theology calls the allocation politically oriented and says the church executive council betrayed its constituents. Dr Paul H Kratzig of Victoria Texas condemns self determination and rejects the Black Manifesto and its aims.
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Episcopal Church
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Victoria
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Shultz says welfare plan will put jobless to work
Secretary of Labor George P. Shultz defended Nixon’s family assistance program as a path from welfare to payrolls, emphasizing work requirements, incentives for recipients, and child care centers. He rejected the AFL-CIO demand for a government job guarantee, citing the Work Incentive Program as proving concepts. About 1.1 million of 5 million heads may register for work or training, with millions more expected to participate voluntarily.
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Washington
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Prgram
Anoth
Boston
Michael LoPresti Jr
LoPresti
Harvard
Berkshires
Massachusetts
Sen
Samuel Harmon
Sen. Harmon
Prisoner Release Tied to Pullout Says North Viets
Two American wives reported North Vietnamese delegates at Paris told them no release of any prisoners until all U S troops leave Vietnam. They urged demonstrations to speed releases, but one wife refused, citing honor. The two men, Cmdr Edwin Shuman and Lt Cmdr Dale Doss, were shot down and wounded on March 17, 1968.
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Vietnam
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Martha Doss
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End Air Pollution Orders Hit Boston and Seven Sites
Massachusetts Public Health Council issued eight pollution stopping orders to city and firms. Targets include Boston city incinerator Cambridge Waltham Abbott House Lynn Corenco Corp Saugus Asphalt firms Springfield Bayer Mingola. Frechette says actions follow failed compliance efforts.
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Public Health Council
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Waltham
Abbott House Nursing Home, Inc
Lynn
Corenco Corp
Chicapee
Trimount Bituminous Products Co
Saugus
Asphalt Hot Mix, Inc
Springfield
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Rogers Jewelry
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Episcopal Group
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Galifornia
DE Luxe
Leroux 2 Company
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General Wine & Spirits CO
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