Right Of U S Astronauts To Voice Religious Sentiments
Washington AP reports support for the right of American astronauts to express religious sentiments. Letters collected by Project Astronaut and delivered to NASA HQ include messages from 17 countries endorsing the Apollo 8 Christmas broadcast. Jerome R. Waldie notes constituents and public figures weighing in amid a petition drive by Family Radio.
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Washington
Apa
National Aeronautics, and Space Administration
Anflin
Hos
NASA
Thomas ‘Oq. Paine
Earth
Moon
Project
Family Radio
Yne
San Francisco
Jerome R. Waldie
William“ Mansdoerfer
Bomb explosion kills one in Vietnam protest note
The article details a bombing in a Hamlet area near Da Nang where a homemade bomb in a small tin can exploded as a bomb disposal team lifted it, killing one operative and injuring three bystanders. It cites Viet Cong terror against hamlet and village chiefs, abductions of PSDF members, and notes a significant increase in attacks this August. It also covers a U S military action near Saigon in which 24 North Vietnamese soldiers were killed, and references Apollo 8 Genesis reading on Christmas Eve and subsequent mail response campaigns.
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Tfal’ Market
Peoples Self-Defense Force
PSDF
National ‘Police
da Nang
Viet Cong
Self-Defense Force
Hoa Long
Mekong Delta
An Nhon
Delta
Phong Dinh
Saigon
Dai
Thien
Aman
Nsai
Breer
Sors
ICC
Vietnam
Canada
Poland
India
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
Moon
Frank Borman
James’ Lovell
William Anders
Manscoerfer
Paine
Mansdoerfer
George E.' Mueller
Farm policy debate spans cotton and land retirement
Hardin faces questions on subsidies and wage support as he weighs removing cotton from proposals. A pilot retirement idea could erase up to four million acres yearly, while calls for gradual phasing out of price supports meet mixed reactions from farm groups. The coalition supports kept income programs but questions limits on payments. Meanwhile the Boston cruiser position remains unresolved as US forces engage.
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Hardin
Aidin
American Farm Bureau
Charles B. Shuman
Federation
Shuman
National Grange
National
Farmers Uiown
National Farmers Organization
House
Senate
U.S
Bostenham
Demilitar
Boston
Senate leadership race reveals Scott as moderate GOP choice
The secret ballot selection by the Senate Republicans named Scott, 68, as leader amid a mix of support from liberal Republicans and a vote tally counted by J. Mark Trice. Baker hailed the outcome as the party in good hands while Scott labeled Baker a vigorous adversary.
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Scott
Senate
J. Caleb Boggs
Delaware
Clifford P. Hansen
Wyoming
Baker
J. Mark Trice
GOP
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Republican Party
House
Pennsylvania
Naional
Dirksen
Pearson
Griffin
Michigan
Ater
Seatt
Justice Department Civil Rights Unit Reorganized
Washington based Justice Department announces a reorganization of its Civil Rights Division to create subject based sections. The plan splits enforcement by equal employment opportunities voting public accommodations fair housing and criminal interference and appoints 22 attorneys to equal educational opportunities with 65 of 72 lawyers having protested earlier. Leonard denies political interference while criticizing some attorneys preparation.
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Washington
Justice Department
Tration
Atty
Jerris Leonard
Four Killed as Chicago Printing Plant Blast Hits
Four killed and 46 injured in an explosion at the R.R. Donnelley & Sons printing plant in Chicago. About 1,000 workers were inside when the blast tore through a four story building used for presses and storage. Fire officials said the cause was not yet determined but likely originated at a press. Names of the dead include two men and two women. one victim remained unidentified at hospital.
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Chicago Printing Company
Paul A. Driscoll
Associated Press
Chicago
R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Chitags
Ai Company
Donnelly
Long Tear Lake Michigan
Dofineiley
New 1 Yorker
Time
Life
Sports
Look
Robert J. Quinn
Sherman Winters
Lawrence Martins
Berenice Nelson
Vestilla Cornell
Gary
Ind
Louise Burg Hospital
Thang Le Duan and Bang Named in Vietnamese Leadership Transition
Thang Le Duan did not speak at the assembly as he pledged to devote his remaining days to Ho Chi Minh's program. A veteran revolutionary and elder statesman born August 19, 1888, Thang won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1955 and the Order of the Yellow Star in 1958. Nguyen Luong Bang, named to succeed Thang as vice president, is a former Moscow ambassador with a long revolutionary record and Central Committee ties.
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le Duan
Thang
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam
Hanoi
Vitnam
North Vietnam
Nguyen Luong Bang
Communist Party
Central Committee
Bang
Moscow
Canon
Revolutionary Movement
Hc’s
Vietminh
Party
Four Women Shot in Delhi Savings Office Crime
Coroner Frank Cleveland described the shooting of four women in a Delhi area savings and loan office. Mrs DeWald was shot in the back four times and the others once in the head. Police said the four were alone when the hold up occurred. Mr Huebner identified the perpetrators and said he saw his wife’s purse with one of the men. He waited in his car as his wife entered the office and heard shots. He saw three men run away. one woman moaned and collapsed while fleeing inside. The office lies near a busy Delhi shopping center in Hamilton County.
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Sitiael
Frank Cleveland
DeWald
Huebner
Taobbers
Savings and Loan Office
Interior cost estimates spark clash over oil import limits
Officials and newsmen debated working papers on oil import costs. Interior Dept figures from 2.2 to 3.5 billion were superseded by a Charles River Associates model yielding 7.13 and 3.18 billion estimates for 1975 and 1980. Ricca noted differing models and Keynesian precedent. Hickel insisted the papers are nonpolicy working analyses for a Cabinet task force.
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Ers
OU and Gas
Helms
Hickel
Cabinet
Interior Department
Charles River Associates
Charles River
Ricca
John Maynard Keynes
United States
Democrat Group Proposes Rules to Boost Delegate Participation
Washington AP report notes the Democratic party reform commission approved 10 of 19 criteria aimed at increasing rank and file involvement in selecting delegates to the 1972 nominating convention. Proposals include proportional minority representation and delegate apportionment reflecting actual party membership.
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Democrat
Washington
Democratic ‘Party
Democratic Party
Commission
Its
Court Debates Judge's Involvement With Former Firm
A union lawyer challenges Judge Haynsworth's participation in cases tied to his former law firm Abramson notes ethics do not bar a sitting judge in such cases unless disqualification or disclosure is needed. The AFL-CIO and UAW oppose the nomination citing business interests during service. The article outlines proposed changes to party rules and delegate processes ahead of state primary actions.
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Page Qne
Abramson
Haynsworth
U.S
Richmond
Union
Jennings
Jenning
Carolina
Catholics and Protestants clash amid Bogside unrest
Fighting raged in Bogside with nine dead and hundreds injured after barricades rose and Catholic vigilantes clashed with passersby. British army reinforced checkpoints as 1,000 Catholics were on alert amid renewed riots. In Parliament, Prime Minister Chichester-Clark won support for reform plans to grant one man one vote locally and to set up a grievances agency and a community relations board.
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Paddy’ Doherty
Citizens’ Defense Association
Bogside
Doherty
Ian Paisley
Ulster
Belfast
James Chichester-Clark
John Dobson
Fourhour
Dobson
TV networks face panel on violent content in 1969-70 season
President Eisenhower refrained from naming programs while criticism targets violence. ABC CBS and NBC officials say they have acted on panel suggestions. The season prioritizes comedy and variety with 26 half hour comedies and 16 music hours. action adventures drop and few westerns remain.
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Eisenhower
American Broadcasting Co
Columbia Broadcasting System
National Broadcasting Co
Long Branch
ABC
NBC
Outsider
CBS
Lunar tektites link Tycho crater to Earth impact
NASA ties Australasian tektites to Tycho rim debris from a 3 day, 240000 mile journey. Glassy fragments showered Earth for nights, with sonic booms as they entered atmosphere. Chapman maps landing pattern from Tycho and unmanned Surveyor 7 data. Debris showers occurred 700000 years ago and earlier from separate lunar impacts.
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Mountain
NASA
Tycho
Earth
Australia
Philippines
Acre
Neil Armstrong
Space Agency
Dean R. Chapman
Thermo and Gas Dynamics Division
Ames
Iowa
Tycho’s
Chapman
Vietnam Leaders Felt Out Over Hanoi Power Struggle
The article profiles Ho Chi Minh era figures Pham Van Dong Truong Chinh Le Duc Tho Giap Nguyen Duy Trinh and others in Hanoi. It notes Pham as pro Moscow Truong Chinh as pro Chinese but later shifting, Le Duc Tho wavering between Paris talks and independence, Giap as a powerful defense figure with Moscow leanings, and Trinh as a newcomer unlikely to surpass veteran leaders.
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Truong Chinh
Long March
Communist Party
le Duc Tho
Paris
Vietnam
Giap
Dien Bien Phu
Moscow
Peking
Nguyen Duy Trinh
Hanoi
Kennedy aides meet at western White House on tax reform
Sources in Treasury said Kennedy and key aides flew to the western White House in San Clemente California less than a week before his Senate appearance to discuss tax reform with the President. From those meetings emerged the decision to accept the depletion allowance despite Nixon's campaign pledges.
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Treasury
Kennedy
White House
San Clemente
Calif
Senate
Nixon
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Smaakei
Aveo. O'Hara
Trish
National Association of Broadcasters
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Lold
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