Armstrong Takes ASNA Desk Job
The first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, will take a desk job in Washington to head NASA's aeronautics program starting July 1. He will leave the astronaut corps but plans to keep flying helicopters and jets. The program will receive $87 million in FY 1971 funds. Armstrong succeeds Charles W. Harper and will work to advance air research while remaining connected to space endeavors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Recer
Aerospnce
Armstrong
NASA
Charles W. Harper
Wernher von Braun
Sea of Tranquility
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr
Michael Collins
Aldrin
Astronaut Corps
Collins
Washington
Soviet Union
Committee On Space Research
Leningrad
Lonoke County May Cover Deficit
The attorney general's office said Lonoke County could cover a budget deficit. Details indicate county finances and potential state assistance are under review, with officials weighing options to balance the books and maintain services.
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Little Rock
Attorney General’s Office
Lonoke County
Treas
May events listed across Arkansas venues in 1950s era roundup
A condensed Arkansas calendar lists numerous May happenings from Belvedere’s Celebrity Four-Ball at Hot Springs to Little Rock planning meetings, rodeos in Fort Smith, high school graduations, Eureka Springs art fairs, and cultural events in Dermott and Magnolia, with parks openings and a state archery tourney noted in Burns Park and North Little Rock. A separate note discusses tax-withholding to cover an assessor deficit, with officials indicating legality and impact on local government funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belvedere
Belvedere Country Club
Hot Springs
Saddle & Sirloin
Corral
Little Rock
Arkansas Adjusters Association
Arkansas
Fort Smith
Coliseum
Eureka Springs
Arkanace Traveller Folk Theatre
Harry
Dermott
Batesville
Big Flat
Magnolia
Burns Park
North Little Rock
Central Arkansas Association
Stuttgart
Navy League criticizes McNamara at Memphis meeting
Jamies M Haun president of the Navy League says former defense secretary Robert McNamara hindered naval development and left ships older than sailors. Hannan, in Memphis for the league’s national meeting, also discussed Cambodia and endorsed Nixon policy. He warned the US faces two main problems building a modern Merchant Marine and a modern Navy.
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Gay le
Navy League
Jamies M. Haun
Defense
Robert McNamara
Hannan
Memphis
Nixon
United States
McNamara
Laird Acknowledges Small U.S. Laos Raids
Secretary Melvin Laird testified before the Senate that small numbers of American troops briefly entered Laos for protective reaction missions. He said no large scale ground operations are planned and noted U.S. advisers sometimes accompany South Vietnamese troops into Laos.
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Walter Amsalts
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Melvin R. Laird
Laos
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Pentagon
U.S
South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Florida White House
Vietnam
Thailand
Sen
J.W. Fulbright
White House
Laird
Nixon
Cambodia
Cambodian
Kent University
United States
Herbert Klein
Chicago
Newspaper story on Vietnam conflict and Cambodia incident
Printed by Offset Vietnam a phony Newsweek magazine claimed Laird sent a message to Gen Abrams saying the U S would be impressed by captures of high ranking prisoners and enemy HQs in Cambodia. The U S State Department backed a proposal by Asian and Pacific nations for an Indochina peace conference to protect Cambodia's neutrality. Indonesia issued the statement in Jakarta urging revival of international control for neutrality. The Cambodian incursion led Red China to cancel talks with the United States scheduled in Warsaw, blaming American actions in Cambodia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vietnam
Newsweek
Laird
Creighton Abrams
Can Ndia
Cambodia
Jakarta
Indonesia
Red China
United States
Warsaw
Red Chinese
Thought Gap Exists in Politics Too
In Little Rock on Monday Neal Sex Johnson of the state GOP criticized a Young Republican League weekend meeting. The group approved four resolutions urging study on marijuana legalization, reducing penalties for possession and sale, legalizing abortion in certified hospitals, legalizing and taxing gambling, and repealing laws on sexual activity among consenting adults. About 75 GOP members phoned in, mostly critical of the Young Republicans’ actions.
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Tommy Yates
Associated Press
Little Rock
Neal Sex Johnson
State
Republican Party
Young Republican League
Young Republicans
Republican
General Assembly
Johnson
GOP
Young Republican
March of Coffins Leaves Perry for Atlanta Protest
In Perry Georgia a march of black coffins on mule drawn wagons leads a protest toward Atlanta to commemorate civil rights killings including MLK’s, Augusta and Jackson State, with SCLC and NAACP figures calling for Voting Rights Act support and an end to violence. The march proceeds via Fort Valley Macon Forsyth Griffin toward the capital, with rallies planned at King’s tomb and Morehouse College.
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Angel Eaatinn
Associated Press
PERRY
Ship Conference
SCLC
King
Ralph David Abersnathy
America
U.S
Southeast Asia
Abernathy
King's Tomb
Mavch
Atlanti
State Capitol
Morehouse College
Slate
Julian Bond
George McGovern
D-S.d
David Hill Hard
Black Panther Party
Spring Street
Houston County
Fort Valley
Fort Valles State College
Macon
Forsyth
Griffin
Atlanta
Spring Annex
Anti-War Strikes Span 265 Colleges in May 1976
Eighteen days after Nixon sent troops to Cambodia, protests ran at about 265 campuses with several still closed. UCLA hosted a mass antiwar event mixing music and peace signs as 5,000 students gathered on the quad. At Connecticut Storrs a strike steering committee moved to form a national coordinating center opposing a House defense bill.
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Associated Press
Nixon
Cambodia
Indochina
Brandeis University
Waltham
Mass
University of California At
Los Angeles
Ucla
University of Connecticut
Storrs
David Howe
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Bill Wray
ASNA
Earl O.neal
George Purvis
Information and Education Department
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
Missouri Olarks
Hope Rotary Club
Panying
Earl O’neal
Jack Beaty
Lonoke Co
House of PaNeLing
Howard Miller
Carlisle
Attorney General's Office
Tom Tanher
Miller
Tanner
Monaco
Georgia
Vas
State Republican Executive Committee
Tom Dillard
Dillard
Executive Committee
Davis Discount Building Material Co
South Walnut
Maverick Headquarters
FORD
Torino
Maverick
Hope Auto
Second St
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