Apollo 14 crew plans cart during moonwalks
Apollo 14 astronauts Mitchell and Shepard prepare a modular equipment transporter to carry samples and gear on two moon walks near Fra Mauro. The MET folds for storage, features a sample pocket a shovel latch a map pocket and a top camera. They hope for 25 to 60 pounds of lunar material with Earth sorting.
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Washington
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Alan B. Shepard
America
Stuart A. Roosa
New York
Shepard
Earth
Fra Mauro
U S Hopeful Hanoi Will Pull Out Troops
In Paris informed sources say the United States may accept a private understanding that North Vietnam will withdraw forces from the South as U.S. withdrawals proceed. The press notes Nixon’s plan omits mutual withdrawal, signaling possible negotiations without formal agreement. The talks’ rigid posture by Hanoi and the Viet Cong challenges progress toward troop withdrawals and a negotiated settlement.
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Nixon To Head GOP Team At Bart Starr Tribute
President Nixon attends a Green Bay tribute to Bart Starr as Republican Lt. Gov. Jack Olson and John Erickson seek campaigns in Wisconsin. Laird Knowles Byrnes join GOP bench. Nelson counters for Democrats. A peaceful protest plan targets Austin Straubel Field with university students and waivers from nearby colleges. Nixon and planners route to the arena via Oneida Street.
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Teterboro
Ocean Grove
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Nelson Gross
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Rogers and Gromyko meet at UN aimed at easing tensions
United Nations and Washington reports say Secretary Rogers and Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko opened two meetings amid U S concerns over Kremlin aims on Middle East truce violations West Berlin conditions and Indochina peace. A follow up session is scheduled for Monday night. officials describe the mood as businesslike.
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West Berlin
Nixon
Indochina
Robert J. McCloskey
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Chicago Officer Dies After Fatal Five Shots
Chicago Patrolman John J. Matonich, 33, was shot five times during a gun battle with a youth outside the Stadium parking area. The gunman Don Davis, 21, died in surgery after the taxi confrontation and earlier weapon arrest. The shooting occurred before a professional game. Matonich was the eighth Chicago officer slain in 1970.
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Matonich
Timothy Allman
Allman
Warren Linding
Mark Osberg
Don Davis
Davis
C5 Transport Damaged On Flight Line At Dobbins
A Lockheed C5 Galaxy exploded and burned on the flight line at Dobbins Air Force Base Georgia during a fueling test killing Phillip L. Smith of Rosell and injuring another civilian employee. The aircraft owned by the Air Force was being tested by Lockheed, with three blasts centered in the left wing and center fuselage. FBI help was requested though sabotage not ruled out. The massive 248 foot long jet carries 318000 pounds of jet fuel stored in 12 cells.
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John Eckhardt
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Wheeler
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William Proxmire
D-Wis
FBI
Phillip L. Smith
Rosell
Steam Pipe Explosion Fatal for Two Men in Stickney Plant
In Chicago area news two men died when a steam pipe exploded at the Metropolitan Sanitary District plant in Stickney. Police identified the victims as Frank Ingo of Park Ridge and Douglas Kohler, 28, of Arlington Heights. Officials said the blast was not a bomb.
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Metropolitan Sanitary District
Stickney
Frank Ingo
Park Ridge
Douglas Kohler
Arlington Heights
Heavy metals seen as threat to lakes
At the Sea Grant Conference in Madison Wisconsin scientists warned that controlling heavy metal pollution in the Great Lakes must outpace resource exploitation on lake bottoms. Dow Chemical and others noted mercury and cadmium risks while Lake Erie and Ontario face degradation and Michigan near hit with ecological limits.
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Great Lakes
University of Wisconsin
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
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Michigan
P.M. Higgins
Department of Fisheries and Forestry
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Lake Ontario
Lake Michigan
Minnesota
Water Main Installation To Close Intersection
The intersection of South Avenue and Losey Boulevard will be closed Monday through Friday for installation of a water main on South Avenue from Losey to 21st Street. Through traffic will be allowed on South Avenue. City Engineer Bernard Mulleneinbach says motorists on Losey Robinsdale Avenue or South Avenue won't be permitted to turn onto the other streets during construction. There will be only one north bound lane on South Avenue.
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Losey Boulevard
Losey
21St Street
Bernard Mullenbach
Robinsdale Avenue
Weekend Weather Preview Mild with Warm Weekend
Fair and mild Saturday night and Sunday with a low near 40 and a high near 70. Chance of precipitation 0 to 5 percent. Monday partly cloudy and continued mild with a low near 40.
UW will aid children of slain scholar
Madison Wisconsin AP The University of Wisconsin board of regents on Friday guaranteed an undergraduate education for the three children of UW researcher Robert Fassnacht, killed in the August 24 bombing of Sterling Hall. Fassnacht is survived by his widow, a 3-year-old son, Christopher, and year-old twins Heidi and Karen. It was the least we could do, said regent president Bernard Ziegler.
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University of Wisconsin Board of Regents
Robert Fassnacht
Sterling Hall
Fassnacht
Christopher
Heidi
Karen
Bernard Ziegler
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