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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1971
Page
1
Three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11 maneuver toward docking with the unmanned Salute space laboratory, which looms large as a rail station sized platform. Lt Col Georgi Dobrovolsky adjusts flight path for a possible 10 hour rest before final approach.
Action Line offers help for readers with practical problems. A reader asks about serrating sterling silver dinner knife blades and is referred to Los Angeles Cutlery and Grinding for about 25 cents per knife. A weed cleanup concern near Los Alamitos Naval Air Station is explained: the base is exempt from the city weed-abatement program, while the golf course is maintained by the naval base office.
An Air West DC-9 and a Navy F4B Phantom collided at about 12 000 feet above the Duarte area leaving 48 aboard the airliner dead and a sole Navy survivor. Survivor Christopher E. Schiess 24 of Salem Oregon parachuted free and was airlifted in good condition. Authorities noted heavy fog delayed body recoveries while crews used four wheel drives and helicopters to reach rugged terrain.
The 100000th visitor to tour the Queen Mary arrived Sunday in Long Beach and received a silver medallion. Miss Margaret Smith of Laguna Beach entered at 4 am, as 401500 total visitors were recorded over five weeks of operation. Weekend crowds totaled 14500. Beginning next Saturday the ship will be open daily.
Senator Stuart Symington charged the United States spends hundreds of millions in a covert war in Northern Laos, far above the $52 million publicly acknowledged. He urged a secret Senate session to review Laos involvement, while Senator Kennedy accused the administration of contradictions and whitewash.
A 26 year old inmate Stephen Knoyne was killed by a stabbing Sunday in San Quentin’s inner yard during an Indian dance program. Police reported no suspects immediately. the weapon was recovered. The incident follows a week of racial tensions and prior stabbings at the facility.
Twenty Indian protesters from the Crazy Horse Mountain movement and the American Indian Movement were arrested atop Mt. Rushmore after refusing to descend. They sought federal treaty redress and concessions at national parks, amid warnings of safety hazards on the sculpture’s face.
Lead industry says no proof exhaust fumes poison children. Termites are after your house. See Sylvia Morter. Nixon administration to go before Congress today in bid to bail out Lockheed.
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