Apollo 13 Crew Heads For Hawaii After Safe Return
Apollo 13 crew Lovell Swigert and Haise fly to Hawaii for a reunion with their families and with President Nixon. The President declares a national day of prayer and thanks, as mission officials assess the oxygen tank rupture and Apollo 14 timing remains undecided.
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Uss
Iwo Jima
James A. Lovell Jr
John L. Swigert Jr
Fred W. Haise Jr
Hawaii
Nixon
Apollo Command
South Pacific
Moon
ABA weighs Blackmun selection for Supreme Court
American Bar Association officials met in Washington to decide their stance on Judge Harry A. Blackmun's Supreme Court nomination. Lawr ence A. Walsh noted the committee had begun examining Blackmun's professional qualifications and might revise or scrap its current evaluation. The ABA previously found Haynsworth highly acceptable and Carswell qualified, while the Senate rejected both prior nominees.
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Washington
American Bar Association
Harry A. Blackmun
Supreme Court
Lawrence A. Walsh
New York
ABA
Committee
Federal Judiciary
Blackmun
Walsh
Neon
Abe Fortas
Clement F. Haynsworth Jr
G. Harrold Carswell
Senate
Ambush Attack Kills Youth as Isla Vista Bank Protests Turn Violent
In Isla Vista near the UC Santa Barbara campus, a 22 year old Kevin Moran of Isla Vista was killed by sniper fire during a second night of disturbances. Deputies reported up to 700 youths involved as the crowd attacked a Bank of America branch with a gasoline bomb and smashed doors. Deputies used tear gas to disperse demonstrators while sniping continued and power to the bank was cut.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Bank of America
Kevin P. Moran
Isla Vista
University of California At Santa Barbara
Vietnam
Nons
Itnesses
Astronauts to Receive Decorations for Apollo 13 Mission
President Nixon plans to award the Medal of Freedom to Apollo 13 astronauts James Lovell John Swigert and Fred Haise after their mission was aborted by a power failure. He will present the honor in Hawaii with a Houston stop to recognize NASA ground crew. Sigurd Sjoberg will accept on behalf of the crew.
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Space Agency
Thomas O. Paine
Paine
Earth
Lovell
Haise
Swigert
Iwo Jima
Pago Pago
Samoa
Air Force
Hawaii
Nixon
Houston
Ellington Air Force Base
Manned Spacecraft Center
The
Space Center
Keith Baird
Baird
IRS
Internal Revenue Service
Cmdr
R. J. Hjerauld
Sick Bay
Navy
Washington
Sigurd A. Sjoberg
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
White House
James A. Lovell Jr
John L. Swigert Jr
Fred W. Haise
Churches Plan Special Services for Apollo 13 Return
The Associated Press reports churches and synagogues plan services on a national day of prayer and thanksgiving for the Apollo 13 astronauts safe return. President Nixon proclaimed the day urging global prayers, with St Patrick’s Cathedral and Temple Emanuel in New York among those marking the occasion.
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Associated Press
Nixon
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Temple Emanuel
New York
Msgr
Joseph O’brien
Iakovos
North
South America
Dak Seang Siege Reaches Eighteenth Day Amid Fresh Shelling
U S Special Forces and Montagnard irregulars hold Dak Seang as North Vietnamese assaults persist. Mortars strike Tan Canh near the camp with 21 enemy deaths reported and 11 South Vietnamese killed or wounded. Across Vietnam, 72 enemy soldiers killed and 2 Americans slain in broader clashes.
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Dak Seang
Highlands
Tan Canh
Saigon
David Cook
Diamond Bar
Calif
South Vietnam
Vietnam
U.S
Scott proposes advisory panel on economics and environment
Governor Bob Scott calls on citizens to bring environmental problems to his new Advisory Committee on Economics and Environment. He announced the plan in a Friday letter to Roy Sowers Jr., chair of the committee and director of the Department of Conservation and Development in Raleigh.
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Raleigh
Bob Scott
North Carolina
Economics and Environment
Scott
Roy Sowers Jr
Department of Conservation and Development
Tornadoes Kill 13 in West Texas Panhandle
A series of tornadoes swept the Panhandle Plains in West Texas killing at least 13 people. The hardest hit Sherwood Shores retirement village on Greenbelt Lake saw seven deaths and 50 injured as up to 160 trailers were destroyed or damaged. Damages near Pampa reach about $1 million as crews assess wreckage along a 175 mile path starting southwest of Lubbock.
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Clarendon
Tex
Panhandle-Plains
West Texas
Arage Dellar
Lubbock
Sherwood Shores
Greenbelt Lake
Texas Department of Public Safety
Amarillo
Pampa
Brezhnev’s Rise May Shape SALT Talks and East West Ties
AP analyzes how Brezhnev's tightening grip and Stalin era mindset could influence Moscow's approach to SALT in Vienna. The piece notes Kremlin habits of distrust of outsiders, a security obsession, and the Brezhnev Doctrine, suggesting SALT talks may hinge on a cautious realist posture rather to bold concessions.
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William L. Ryan
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
Soviet Communist Party
Kremlin
Vienna
Moscow
Russia
Stalin
Czechoslovakia
East Europe
Warsaw Pact
Kommunist
Warsaw
NATO
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Soviet Union
Grand Central Station
New York City
Pop
Jeffrey Lovell
James A. Lovell
Barbara
Mrs. Lovell
Churches Planning
St. Patrick’s Congregation
Portland
Maine
Peter Gerety
Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
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