Spy Flights Over Red China Halted
U S officials said flights over Communist China by Manned SR-71s and unmanned drones were suspended to avoid any incident during President Nixon's Peking visit. Satellites will continue missions over China as they are considered less provocative.
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New York Times News Service
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Nikita S. Khrushchev
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Vatican Primp and China Tension Over U S Recon Flights
Informants say political reasons for halting American flights to China outweighed continued intelligence from SR-71 or drones. Some sources suggest a lift after Nixon's China visit, with caution on a parallel Soviet Union ban from 1960. White House notes Kissinger’s talks while noting limited discussion of specifics.
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Moonlight Buggy Ride Highlighted by Space Figures
Former Miss Marshall Space Flight is cited in a Moonlight Buggy Ride feature alongside Col. David R. Scott and Lt. Col. James B. Irwin who reportedly lack a lunar driver’s license issued to them for moon mission duties.
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Apollo 15 Prepares Lunar Orbit With Hybrid Engine Plan
Apollo 15 engineers test a new engine firing procedure to bypass a short in the fuel circuit. Commander Scott and James Irwin guide the ship toward the moon in a controlled burn set to place the craft in orbit about 70 miles above the surface.
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AP Aerospace Winter Space Center
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Scott
Moon
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Alfred M. Worden
Cape Kennedy
Richard Torden
Gordon
Apollo 15
Irwin
United States Metric Change Proposed by Stans
Secretary Maurice H. Stans proposes a 10 year gradual shift from pounds and inches to grams and meters to boost U S trade and align standards with international norms. The plan covers tools scales and machinery but not football fields or railroad gauges. Congress action is required and a Bureau of Standards study underpins the proposal.
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William Robbins
New York Times News Service
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America
Secretary of Commerce
Maurice H. Stans
Stans
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Washington Redskins
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Bureau of Standards
Congress
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International Standards Organization
Kennedy accepts and then rejects Cuban crisis summit talk
Russia releases documents show President John F Kennedy weighed a summit with Soviet leaders during the Cuban crisis and then declined the direct talks. The New York Times reports the exclusive on page A-5 of today's Decatur Daily.
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Russia
New York Times
Decaturdaily
Apollo 15 Schedule Today in CDT Times
Apollo 15 mission times listed in CDT include 3:07 p.m. lunar insertion, 3:47 p.m. Saturn IVB impact test for seismometers, 9:22 a.m. TV view of landing site, 12:48 p.m. LM separation, 5:03 p.m. LM descent, 5:15 p.m. touchdown, and 6:44 p.m. commander Dave Scott opens the LM hatch to view the landing site area.
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Senate seeks straight vote on Lockheed aid bill
Senators opposed to the rescue package for Lockheed offered to end stall tactics if administration supporters allow a direct up or down vote on saving the defense contractor. Transport chief Volpe urged a permanent transit labor dispute bill to end crises. An Alabama nursing board seat expansion bill was postponed. Sudan's Nimeiry warned no deterioration with the USSR if socialist states choose that path.
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NYT
Gafaar al- Nimeiry
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Road Bond Cut Down as Wallace Proposes $135 Million
The Senate Transportation Committee reduced Gov. Wallace's highway bond plan from 135 million to 80 million and sent it back to the Senate. A four member study panel favors a roughly 100 million bond plan that could replace the governor's on the floor. The House has passed the governor's general fund budget withholding funds from the teacher retirement fund.
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