Apollo 13 astronauts use lunar module as lifeboat home
Apollo 13 surviving crew Lovell Swigert and Haise navigate a risky free return from a lunar explosion. Ground controllers and NASA officials describe the mission as the most dangerous in U.S. spaceflight history with splashdown projected in the Indian Ocean or South Pacific within days.
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UPI
Apollo 13
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New Zealand
Iwo Jima
Indian Ocean
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Pacific
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Lunar Module
Apollo 13 Crisis Feeds Global Anxiety and Hope
World reaction to the Apollo 13 crisis ran from shock to prayers as Pope Paul VI, nations offering aid, and observers in Europe and Spain followed the drama. Citizens voiced concern yet faith in the astronauts and U S space tech to prevail amid the tense situation.
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France
Australia
America
Soviet Union
Europe
U.S
Spain
Washington, D.C
John D. Noble
James Sirrell
London
Slow early voting in Lompoc municipal election
Balloting opened with light turnout in Lompoc's 16 precincts as of 10 a.m. Incumbents Speight MacClure Jacoby face challengers Stevens Ramirez Lekowitz Dunlap Cotsenmeyer with 7,638 registered voters. First absentee tally expected two hours after closing. results to be certified April 21.
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Hapgood
Fillmore
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Veterans Memorial Building
Brooks Speight
Robert MacClure
Richard Jacoby
E.C. Stevens
Henry Ramirez
Sol Lefkowitz
Floyd Dunlap
George Cotsenmeyer
City Hall
Wilma Thomas
Jacoby
MacClure
Council
KNEZ
Lompoc Narrows
Charlotte Benton
Arthur Scott
Federal Correctional Institution
Winds lash Ventura harbor as 465 foot ship grounds
Gale force winds and 15 foot seas sweep Southern California coast. The 465 foot La Janelle runs aground near Channel Islands Harbor with two aboard after breakers topple it from moorings. Rescue helicopter lifts both men to safety as other boats struggle and lifeguards save five from two fishing boats off Summerland Beach.
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VPI
California
Coast Guard
Channel Islands Harborarine
Marina
Port Hueneme
Pacific Palisades
Santa Monica Harbor
Summerland Beach
Ventura County
Superior Court
Anacapa Island
Philip West
Hugh Gallagher
West
Democrats push changes to Reagan tax plan in California
In Sacramento UPI reported Democrats in the Assembly voted to seek major edits to Governor Reagan's 645 million tax revision proposal. They target a one cent sales tax increase and the oil depletion allowance while noting GOP support may waver before the June 2 primary.
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UPI
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Ronald Reagan
Revenue and Taxation Committee
Reagan
Reagan’s Plan, Sponsored By Assemblyman William T. Bagley, R-San Rafael
Bagley
Revenu
John J. Miller
Miller
George Moscone
Saco
Moscone
Monagan
Tribesmen recapture outpost near Dak Pek
Montagnard tribesmen led by U S Special Forces recaptured an outpost seized during the Dak Pek siege. Col Nguyen Ba Tin reports Communist losses of 217 men at Dak Pek and 1 515 at Dak Seang since April 1. Also reports note 90 dead at a government outpost near the Cambodian border and three U S helicopters shot down.
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UPI
Dak Pek
U.S
Nguyen Ba Tin
Dak Seang
Laos
Cambodia
South Vietnam
Green Beret
Vietnam
Svay Rieng
Wildcat truck strike triggers shootings and mass layoffs
Shots were fired at trucks in Detroit and Chicago as a wildcat strike by two unions idled over 40 000 drivers and dock workers. The strike, opposing a Teamsters wage offer, closed a dozen auto plants and forced 42 000 layoffs with 40 000 more shifted to shorter schedules. A Teamster truck was struck near Detroit on U S 23 heading to a GM plant. the driver escaped injury.
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Chicago
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Michigan
Teamster
Grand Blanc
General Motors Corp
U.S. 23
Harrisburg
Moorer Named New Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
President Nixon designates Admiral Thomas H. Moorer as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff replacing retiring Admiral Earle Wheeler who has led since July 1964. Wheeler will retire July 2 after Senate OK, with Vice Admiral Zumwalt to become Navy chief and Moorer to lead the CJCS.
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UPD
Nixon
Thomas H. Moorer
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Earle G. Wheeler
Moorer
Naval Operations
Wheeler
Senate
Moor
Navy leadership changes under Nixon era described
Chairman Moorer of Mount Willing Alabama was named chief of naval operations on June 3 1967 and reap pointed by Nixon on July 12 of the following year. Zumwalt aged 49 from San Francisco serves since 1968 as commander in Vietnam and chief of the U S naval advisory group. Wheeler has headed the Joint Chiefs for two years beyond the standard four year term with a term extended to July 1969 after a 1968 extension by Johnson and a later decision to stay on for another year at Nixon request.
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Elmo RK. Zumwalt Jr
Vietnam
Moorer
Navy
Arthur Radford
Mount Willing
Ala
Naval Operations
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San Francisco
U.S. Naval Advisory Group
Wheeler
Joint Chiefs
Lyndon B. Johnson
Los Angeles Teachers Strike Continues Despite Court Order
Striking teachers in Los Angeles defied a court order to return to work and picketed hundreds of schools for a second day. About half of the district's 25 000 teachers did not report, as Superintendent Robert Kelly condemned the action and sought to halt talks until teachers return. A temporary restraining order was issued by Superior Court Judge Richard Schauer.
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Apollo
James McDivitt
Earth
Frank Borman
Flad
Los Angeles
UPI
Robert Kelly
Nelly
Richard Schauer
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Manned Spacecraft Center
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Ventura Harbo
U.S. Weather Bureau
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