Senator Gore cites reports doubting Safeguard ABM design
Senator Albert Gore says three Pentagon studies by Aerospace Corp Jason Division IDA and ARPA from 1967 1968 found the Safeguard anti ballistic missile system inadequate for its task. He notes the reports call for many more radars and less exposure than Safeguard plans.
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Karl Mundt
R S.D
Nixon
Gore
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Defense Science Board Task Force
Nixon presses peace call during Saigon visit
President Nixon warned Hanoi and the Viet Cong that the door to peace is closing and urged a response while in Saigon. He met with Thieu and visited troops at a 1st Infantry base, stating this could be one of America's finest hours. Mrs. Nixon toured wounded soldiers at Long Binh.
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UPI
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Saigon
Nixon
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Vietnam
America
South Vietnamese
Nguyen van Thieu
North Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
Paris
United States
Nixon Thieu
Presidential Palace
U.S. 1St Infantry
Bangkok
Long Binh
Tan Son Nhut
North
South Vietnam
Tax measure on city utilities fails in assembly
The 14 percent gross revenue tax on municipal utilities was killed by the Assembly Ways and Means Committee. City officials Arthur Scott and Emil Scolari, with W. Don MacGillivray, helped defeat the measure. If enacted the city would have owed about 181000 in taxes. to offset the loss a 57 cent city tax hike was proposed. Pacific Gas and Electric and Southern California Edison supported the measure.
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Assembly
Ways and Means
Arthur Scott
City Utilities
Emil Scolari
Sacramento
W. Don MacGillivray
Gene Wahlers
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Southern California Edison Company
Peace talks rejected at Popes visit
Nigerian Information Minister Anthony Anahoro offered to meet Biafra representatives during Pope Paul VI's Africa visit but rejected formal peace talks on the civil war. The pope urged a cease-fire and possible truce, while Nigeria reported Biafran air attacks near Lagos with no reported damages to Eko Ike.
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Kampala
Uganda
UPI
Anthony Anahoro
Biafra
Paul VI
Africa
Castel Gandolfo
Paul
Lagos
Benin
Eko Ike
Biologists begin tests on Apollo 11 Moon samples
Biologists collect blood from astronauts and start injecting lunar dust into germ free mice to test for infectious organisms or toxins. NASA reports Armstrong Collins and Aldrin remain healthy in quarantine as Columbia joins them and moon rocks undergo decontamination and analysis.
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Space Center, Houston
UPI
Neil A. Armstrong
Michael Collins
Edwin E. Aldrin
William R. Carpentier
Columbia
Moon
Armstrong
Aldrin
Sea of Tranquility
Pacific Ocean
Honolulu
Mansfield firm on threat to let income tax surtax die
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield stood firm against extending the 10 percent income surtax without accompanying tax reforms. He and President Nixon clashed over a five month vs one year extension while August 31 remains administrations’ deadline. Mansfield warned the short-term measure would fail to resolve reform efforts and House Ways and Means continues drafting.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Nixon
Spiro Agnew
Mansfield
House
Ways and Means Committee
Agnew
Thailand
Senate Democratic Policy Committee
Everett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
Mariner 6 Begins Second Picture Run Toward Mars Encounter
Mariner 6 started a second series of Mars pictures as it neared a near encounter with the red planet. The first set showed a small egg shaped orb with a bright south polar cap and a mottled gray surface. Scientists hoped to detect atmospheric nitrogen oxygen and hydrogen and possible water while mapping surface features during a 25 minute window of close approach.
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Pasadena
UPI
Mariner 6
Mars
Red
United States
Soviet Union
Earth
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mission Control
Robert B. Leighton
California Institute of Technology
South Polar
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