Navy probes Sealab III death of diver Cannon
San Diego officials report carbon dioxide poisoning as the cause of Berry M. Cannon’s death during a dive 610 feet below the Pacific. Navy investigators learn the capsule failed to monitor breathing gas and a missing chemical in a canister may have contributed to the lethal exposure.
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San Diego
UPS
Berry M. Cannon
Naval
Cannon
Pacific
R. L. Creason
Navy
W. F. Mazzone
Mazzone
San Clemente Island
John Chase
Cmdr
James McDole
Deep Submergence Systems Project Technical Office
McDole
Weather stations to shut 13 small bureaus under cutbacks
The Commerce Department announced the closure of 13 small and medium weather stations to meet a Congress decreed staff reduction. Stations to close include Houghton Lake Michigan Rome Georgia Stockton California and others in Vicksburg Reading La Crosse Laredo Mansfield Pensacola New Haven Alexandria and Eko.
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Commerce Department
Congress
Stockton
Cape Henry
Weather Bureau
Rome
Lester
Houghton Lake
Vicksburg
Miss
Reading
la Crosse
Wis
Laredo
Tunney pushes congressional inquiry into Mexican alien employment
Rep. John V. Tunney asks Senate and House Judiciary Committees to investigate how Mexican alien employment affects U S farm workers. He cites 72 hour border passes and an open door policy costing domestic wages and urges penalties for employers aiding illegal entrants. The piece also covers Weather Bureau station shutdowns with 30 staff affected and $400 000 annual savings.
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Washington
John V. Tunney
Dcalif
U.S
Tunney
Senate
House Judiciary Committees
United States
Four Apollo Command Ships to Be Modified at Downey
The U S Space Agency in Houston announced Downey Aircraft will modify the last four Apollo command and service ships for an embryonic space station planned for the early 1970s. Modifications valued at about 125 million dollars bring total program value to roughly 340 million dollars and include manufacturing, assembly, testing, and checkout. North American will provide mission support and spacecraft trainers as four spacecraft enter initial manufacturing with changes focused on the service module to achieve up to 56 days in space.
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Apollo
North American
Rockwell Corp
U.S. Space Agency
Houston
Tex
Downey
Hope Dims in Walkout at Airline
Washington reports that a weekend settlement on the American Airlines strike faded as the National Mediation Board suspended negotiations until Monday. About 15,000 ground crew workers of the Air Line and Transport Workers Union began a 12:01 a.m. Thursday walkout affecting 7,700 flight personnel. The union seeks a 30 percent wage increase over two years amid hours 3.16 to 4.16 and fringe benefits, with talks ongoing after a 30-day cooling-off and 10 months of bargaining.
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Washington
American Airlines
National Mediation Board
Airline
and Transport Workers Union
Apollo 9 Health Check Delays Monday Liftoff at Cape
Apollo 9 astronauts James McDivitt David Scott and Russell Schweickart continue to recover from colds as doctors decide if they can launch Monday from Cape Kennedy. Final countdown may begin after medical review with potential delay to Wednesday. Department notes the delay cost about 500000 including overtime and fuel.
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Cape Kennedy
Charles A. Berry
Berry
la Jolla
Scott
McDivitt
Schweickart
Dootors
Moon
James McDivitt
David Scott
Russell Schweickart
Uruguay to Trade Goods for Soviet Machinery
Uruguay will swap canned foods and women's apparel for Soviet agricultural and industrial machinery under a one year 20 million dollar trade agreement. Local sources say Uruguay will partly pay with locally produced products.
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Moscow
UPI
Uruguay
Explosion on Danish trawler kills crew member and injures two
An explosion believed caused by escaping gasoline fumes ripped through a harbor fishing trawler in Esbjerg Denmark. The blast hurled a crewman 50 yards onto another trawler killing him. Two others were injured.
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Esbjerg
Denmark
UPI
Saigon shuts down Catholic run Daily Hoa Binh paper
Saigon authorities suspended the Daily Hoa Binh, a South Vietnamese newspaper run by a Catholic priest, after it published a story critical of the government. A government official confirmed the temporary suspension on Friday.
Russia Seeks Global Satellite Linkup Amid Intelsat Talks
The Soviet Union signaled openness to discuss a single global space communications network not US dominated, endorsing domestic regional and global systems to be coordinated by the ITU. Minashin outlined three principles: open participation, equal governing rights, and proportional cost and income sharing.
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Washington
Soviet Union
United States
U.S
International Telecommunications Union
Minashin
Intelsat Consortium
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AP Regional Service
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