Apollo 13 Crew Heads Toward Moon Valley Landing Site
Apollo 13 astronauts Lovell Haise and Swigert blasted from Cape Kennedy aboard a Saturn 5 toward a lunar valley terrain rich in ridges and craters. The crew aims for a 10 day mission with a potential 5 billion year old rock sample, while Swigert replaces Mattingly after a measles scare.
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Moon Valley
Nixon
Cape Kennedy
UPI
James A. Lovell
Fred W. Haise
John L. Swigert
Pacific Ocean
Lovell
Haise
Swigert
John Teegan
Thomas K
Ken
Mattingly
Donald K. Slayton
Moonport
Slayton
Marilyn
Mary
Houston
J. Leonard Swigert
Denver
Commission to Review Convalescent Hospital Plan
The Planning Commission will receive plans for a proposed half million dollar 99 bed convalescent hospital to be located in the 1100 block of East Walnut Avenue on PD zoned land. The meeting will also cover hearings on small business uses and city development regulations.
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Planning Commission
Marvin Janzen
Harley Craig
East Walnut Avenue
Richard W. Siemsen
W. Cherry Ave
Ocean Avenue
V Street
North H Street
Lompoc Airport
Los Angeles
Grange
West German warn of sanctions over Guatemala envoy murder
West German officials threaten possible economic reprisals after ambassador Karl von Spreti was kidnapped and killed in Guatemala. German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel delivered a protest to President Mendez Montenegro as a ransom bid failed. Militant FAR faction in Mexico City accused of the killing.
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Guatemala City
UPI
Guatemala
Karl von Spreti
Walter Scheel
von Spreti
Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro
Jurgens Ruhfus
German Foreign Ministry
Wilhelm Hoppe
von Sprell
Mexico City
Rebel Armed Forces
FAR
Otoniel Marin Chacon
Androcles Hernandez
Governor Kirk seeks Supreme Court ruling in integration fight
Florida Governor Claude Kirk presses to take his Manatee County desegregation dispute to the Supreme Court amid a possible contempt charge for defying a federal court order. A six hour hearing earlier Friday weighed charges against Kirk and aides as marshals served subpoenas to staff.
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Kirk
Tampa
Fla
UPI
Claude Kirk
Manatee County
Supreme Court
Florida
U.S
Ben Krentzman
Xrentzman
Lloyd Hagaman
Hagaman
Regional board backs dam and single sewer plan in Lompoc
The Central Coast Region Water Quality Control Board endorsed the Lompoc Project to conserve water and improve quality for the Lompoc Plain. It urged a single regional sewer system for Lompoc Valley with talks to start by July 1, 1970 and completion by July 1, 1972, including Lompoc Mission Hills Vandenberg Village and Vandenberg AFB.
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Regional Water Quality Control Board
Lompoc
Lompoc Valley
San Luis Obispo
Central Coast Board
Santa Ynez River
Ken Dawson
James Longtin
Thomas Stetson
Tom Petersen
California Water Quality Control Board
Central Coast Region
Lompoc Plain
Bureau of Reclamation
Narrows
County Water Agency
Mission Hills
Vandenberg Village
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Brandt ends talk on policy with Nixon endorsement
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt wrapped two days of policy talks with President Nixon in which Nixon publicly backed Brandt's effort to ease ties with Eastern Europe. The meeting included a White House reception and a multi‑gun salute as Apollo 13 launched nearby.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Nixon
Minnesota
Maine
Supreme Court
Spiro T. Agnew
CBS Evening News
Walter Cronkite
Washington Evening Star
U.S. Circuit Court
Harry A. Blackmun
U.S. District Court
Edward T. Gignoux
Washington Post
Blackmun
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Minneapolis
Minn
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
R-Mass
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
G. Harrold Carswell
Willy Brandt
Europe
Brandt
Cape Kennedy
U.S
William P. Rogers
Melvin R. Laird
Elliot P. Richardson
Soviet Union
Poland
East Germany
Relief column reaches Green Beret garrison
Saigon reports a relief column of 600 South Vietnamese troops at Dak Seang with helicopters evacuating the seriously wounded. UPI notes the garrison held under shelling for 11 days with 104 enemy dead and 430 wounded overall, while Brig. Gen. Lu Mong Lan cites 1,368 North Vietnamese killed around the outpost since April 1.
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Saigon
UPI
Dak Seang
Barney Seibert
Highlands
Lu Mong Lan
Daniel Noonan
Whittier
Calif
Seibert
Noonan
Labor Crisis Deepens Across Sectors As Strikes Loom
United Press International reports ongoing labor tensions with trucking unions in Chicago over pay rates and air traffic controllers returning to court to resolve a 17 day stalemate. Congress weighs postal rate rise to fund a 14 percent raise for workers. In New York City unions threaten strikes against the four major newspapers amid slowdowns and potential suspensions.
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United Press International
Chicago
White House
Congress
Nixon
New York City
New York Times
Newspaper Guild
New York Post
The
Daily News
Long Island Press
Crowds Gather for Antique Air Show in Busy City
Crowds formed early at the antique air show as City Council candidates pressed campaigns in the final weekend. Attorney General candidate John Harmer campaigned in Lompoc yesterday.
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John Harmer
Lompoc
Cambodians claim major battles kill or wound 68 enemy forces
In Phnom Penh premier Lon Nol pushes toward a republic and ends monarchic power while reporting two battles that killed or wounded 68 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. A massacre of 90 Vietnamese refugees is linked to a second Viet Cong attack on Prasaut village near the border.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
UPI
Lon Nol
Norodom Sihanouk
Nol
Olympic Stadium
Information Ministry
Prasaut
South Vietnam
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