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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1975
Page
4
The Senate voted 53 to 43 to continue expanding the Diego Garcia naval facility, rejecting a Mansfield-led bid to block 18.1 million for 1975 and 13.8 million for 1976. Critics warned it risks entanglement in South Asia and Vietnam-like scenarios, while supporters called the base a strategic supply and oil flow safeguard.
Congress provisionally authorized 18.1 million for enlarging an existing naval site, conditional on certification of national security. Stennis argues for future readiness amid oil transit and Soviet activity. Mansfield and Jackson voice concerns about cost and diplomacy with the Soviet Union.
President Ford and Polish Communist leader Edward Gierek welcomed the Helsinki summit as a step toward peace in Europe. They pledged strong US Poland support to make the conference a stimulus for better relations and broader cooperation among the participant states.
Apollo astronauts Vance Brand Thomas Stafford and Donald Slayton regain health after exposure to nitrogen tetroxide fumes during return from space. Officials say Brand failed to flip switches that would have auto sequenced propellant shutdown and parachute deployment. Doctors expect at least ten days more rest in Hawaii at Tripler Army Medical Center.
Robert White testified that Ohio Governor Rhodes told him at the campus airport before the 1970 shootings that National Guard troops were there to "keep you open." White, resigning 1971, appears in a $46 million civil suit by families of students killed and wounded. Guard leader Canterbury described his horror at the gunfire.
President Ford withdraws a proposal to sell Jordan 14 Hawk missile batteries as part of a 350 million anti aircraft package. Senator Case welcomes the move and expects a more modest plan after the August recess. No sale of Redeye missiles or Vulcan guns is included. Senate aides say the withdrawal was relayed to the Foreign Relations Committee.
Intelligence sources say China’s latest satellite, launched Saturday, is a fully operating spy craft circling the globe every 91 minutes. It crossed over Soviet testing areas and Outer Mongolia while transmitting data to China. analysts cite budget and technical issues delaying the program and note China’s propaganda attacks on the Soviet American space venture.
Reno voters approved curbs on adult theaters and bookstores in June. The City Attorney's Office drafted an obscenity ordinance and the hearing today lets citizens specify the ordinance's content.
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