Apollo 16 Faces Lunar Landing Amid Paint Peeling Mystery
Apollo 16 speeds toward the moon as engineers study shredded insulating coating on the lunar lander Orion. Commander John W. Young and astronauts Thomas Mattingly and Charles Duke report a possible venting gas while mission planners keep to a midweek landing in the moon’s highlands. The six day mission will map and sample the surface to illuminate the moon’s early volcanic and meteoroid history.
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M. Pete Frank
Young
Thomas K. Mattingly
Charles M. Duke
Nixon bombing secrecy tight as Mideast critiques rise
UPI reports the White House imposed strict secrecy on Nixon's role in bombing Haiphong Hanoi and other targets. Congress members reacted with varied calls to halt or continue actions while Saigon framed the raids as necessary to deter North Vietnam and Soviet influence.
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UPI
White House
Nixon
Haiphong
Hanoi
Capitol Hill
Gerald L. Warren Warren
Warren
U. S
United States
North Vietnam
Paris
House
Gerald RK. Ford
U.S
Ford
Barry Goldwater
Kariz
Saigon
Pham van Dong
William P Rogers
South Vietnam
Rogers
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S. Command
U.S. Navy
North
Hanoi Signals Willingness To Resume Secret Talks
North Vietnam offered to renew secret negotiations if U S air raids stop and weekly Vietnam talks resume. Xuan Thuy said Le Duc Tho would fly to Paris once conditions are met and warned against a new invasion. Tho previously led 13 talks with Kissinger without result.
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UPI
Hanoi
Nixon
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Xuan Thuy
le Duc Tho
Henry A. Kissinger
Thuy
South Vietnam
Kissinger
Tho
U.S
United States
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Hanoi-Washington
Four Weekend Crashes Leave 12 Injured in Lompoc Valley
Twelve people were injured in four separate accidents over the weekend in the Lompoc Valley. Franklin Tower, 34, of Imperial Beach, was seriously hurt on Highway 1 near Lompoc and is listed in satisfactory condition at Cottage Hospital with leg and internal injuries. Robine Tower, 27, also of Imperial Beach, was treated at Vandenberg AFB Hospital for leg injuries and cuts. A group of seven local teenagers in a vehicle driven by John Edward Ramming, 18, were among the injured, with Karen Moe, 14, listed in satisfactory condition at VAFB Hospital with a left arm injury. One teen remained hospitalized Sunday. the rest suffered minor injuries. In a separate two-car crash on Ocean Avenue, Mark Johnson, 17, and Walter Pate, 52, sustained multiple injuries. Clement Fallier, 43, suffered major facial injuries on Miguelito Canyon Road and Johns-Manville Road. Tony Cota, 38, died Friday’s Guadalupe Road crash, raising headon-collision fatalities to four.
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Lompoc Valley
Franklin Tower
Imperial Beach
Tower
Cottage Hospital
Robine Tower
Vandenberg Air Force Base Hospital
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Janet Boyd
Amherst Pl
Jamie Vance
Barba
Mission Hills
Ken McCarthy
South C St
Debbie Mayhugh
Space 7
Vafb
Bonnie Carns
Rucker Rd
Bari Husted
Pembrook Ave
Ocean Avenue
N Street
Mark Richard Johnson
Santa Clara Dr
Walter Joseph Pate
W. Lime Ave
Miguelito Canyon Road
Johns-Manville Road
Clement Fallier
North F St
Homer Gulley
Los Angeles
Fallier
Lompoc
Tony Cota
Nipomo
Guadalupe Road
Marian Hospital
Santa Maria
Cota
Californians face 1971 income tax deadline at midnight
Sacramento UPI reports the 1971 personal state income tax return deadline is midnight today. Franchise Tax Board official Robert Haines notes over 8 million returns will be filed with many in the final hours, post office trucks delivering about two tons of mail every 90 minutes containing roughly 4 to 6 million dollars in checks and money orders. Governor Ronald Reagan has already met the deadline, saying he hand delivered his return last week.
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Sacramento
UPI
Gov
Ronald Reagan
No action on death penalty
The Supreme Court refused a temporary stay on California’s death sentence ruling. California Attorney General Evelle Younger argued the denial would hinder federal review before sentences are commuted to life imprisonment. The court offered no comment on the request.
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Washington
UPS
Supreme Court
California
Evelle J. Younger
Younger
Nixon to visit Poland on Moscow trip
President Nixon will visit Poland on May 31 and June 1 after attending the Moscow summit. The White House confirmed the trip with an invitation extended by Ambassador Witold Trampczynski. The stop follows talks in Moscow and precedes a likely Austrian leg en route to the Soviet Union.
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Nixon
Poland
Moscow
White House
Witold Trampczynski
Oval Office
Tran
Austria
Soviet Union
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