Apollo 16 astronauts trek to moon mountain peak
Apollo 16 explorers drove six miles on the moon and climbed 750 to 800 feet up Stone mountain in the Descartes range. They found a few crystalline rocks and reported a stunning view of the lunar surface while continuing the search for volcanic crystals.
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Space Center
Houston
Moon Mountain
Stone Mountain
Descartes Mountain
Earth
Charles M. Duke
North Bay
Congressmen Seek Parley On Asia War
Eighty one members of Congress sign a letter to President Nixon asking for a meeting to discuss the Southeast Asia war. The signers include 12 senators and 69 representatives who urge an end to U.S. involvement and seek to share views ahead of Nixon’s Moscow trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Nixon
Southeast Asia
U.S
House
Moscow
Sen
Frank E. Moss
Dutah
Rep
Donald M. Fraser
D-Minn
Democrats Strike Abortion Plank In Iowa Platform
In Ames at the state convention the 1972 Democratic platform was left silent on legalized abortion after a 1 911.11 to 1 717.15 vote against repealing the abortion law. Delegates rejected a minority report backing unborn rights and kept abortion in a tertiary position, adopting an amendment shielding doctors and nurses who refuse abortion services. The plank was then struck from the platform’s quality of life section, a move seen as balancing the platform and avoiding a campaign issue for Republicans and liberals alike. Other leaders argued the party risks losing voters over abortion while some urged unity with advocates across Iowa.
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Frank Nye
Ames
Hilton Coliseum
Iowa State
Minette Doderer
Iowa City
Gov. Ray
McGovern
Bay State
McGovern and
Muskie
Hele
Anti-War Protests Hit In All Sides of U S
Massive demonstrations across the United States gathered tens of thousands in rain soaked cities. In New York City over 50 000 marched two miles through Manhattan with celebrities including John Lennon and Yoko Ono leading the chants for peace. Daniel Ellsberg denounced the Pentagon Papers leak and urged U S withdrawal. Los Angeles saw 8 000 to 10 000 marchers on Wilshire Boulevard toward MacArthur Park while San Francisco drew about 20 000 at a peace rally with radical speakers and lemonade.
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Manhattan
John Lindsay
John Lennon
Yoko Ono
Daniel Ellsberg
Pentagon
New York
Vietnam
Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles
Jewish Defense League
MacArthur Park
San Francisco
Mafia Enters Common Market
Rome officials say the Mafia is expanding into the Common Market trade. Customs investigators attribute a recent 850000 dollar butter smuggling operation to an underground apparatus they call the new Mafia. The butter entered Italy illegally from other Common Market countries.
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Rome
Mafia
Italy
GAO Reports CIA Misused Aid Grants
GAO says U S refugee relief programs in Laos were used to aid paramilitary forces including Meo tribesmen in the CIA clandestine army led by Gen Vang Pao. The June 30 1971 data show 20 000 paramilitary personnel and 105 000 dependents supported, with 125 000 of 306 000 on rolls linked to paramilitary units. Kennedy released a sanitized summary for the subcommittee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
General Accounting Office
U.S
Laos
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
GAO
Sen. Kennedy
Senate Subcommittee On
Agency For International Development
Agriculture Department
Food For Peace
Kennedy
Massachusetts
Congressional Investigative Agency
New York Times
Accounting Office
Xiengkhouang
Important Towns Lose Road Link
North Vietnamese forces shelled An Loc and attacked from four directions as they pressed a heavy ground assault on the provincial capital 60 miles north of Saigon. Simultaneous assaults cut the Pleiku Kontum highway and overran a key fire base while U S B 52s bombed enemy concentrations nearby.
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Saigon
An Loc
Kontum
Pleiku
Overan
An ‘Loc
Dau Tieng
Dan Tieng
U.S
Marble Mountain
Dan Nang
Central Highlands
McGovern Seeks Massachusetts Victory in Boston Campaign
Senator George McGovern campaigned in Chelsea and Haymarket Square Boston as he urged a great victory next Tuesday in the Massachusetts primary. He and Rep. Wilbur Mills were the only notable Democratic campaigners on the Massachusetts scene amid a backdrop of rival Muskie efforts in Philadelphia suburbs Scranton and South Philadelphia.
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Walter Mears
Associated Press
George McGovern
Boston
Massachusetts
Chelsea
Haymarket Square
McGovern
Rep
Wilbur D. Mills
Arkansas
Pennsylvania
Hubert Humphrey
Minnesota
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Humphrey
Philadelphia
Mercersburg
Wallace
Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Bulletin
Pittsburgh
Muskie
Scranton
Be Kind to Your Friends Chuckle Line
A short humorous line urges kindness to friends noting that without them you’d be a total stranger. The quip ends with a light moral about valued companionship.
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Red Cross
Pierce
Mixe Miller
Falbrook Drive
Ron Bennett
Cavalier Street
Randy Bowers
Seventeenth Street
Robert Macgregor
301St Field Hospital
301St Field Hospital Army Reserve
Ottumwa
Armed Forces Center
Wenng Road
Gazette
Duane Crock
Pauli Recer
Duke
Fred Horz
Space Agency
Asia
Demos
Iowa
William Gannon
Dmingo
Ple
Gannon
Polk County
James Brick
By Gazette
New York City
North Vietnam
David Dellinger
George Esper
Sen. McGovern
Sen. Muskie
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