Spacewalk Repairs Skylab 2 Gyros and Solar Telescope
Astronauts Garriott and Lousma replace gyroscopes and swap film in the solar telescope during a nine minute drift period aboard Skylab 2. The crew installs a six pack of gyros, stabilizes the station, and completes the four hour and three minute space walk with the hatch closing after sunset.
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Stronauts
Lousmia
Central
Lousma
Sion Space Station
Bean
Space Wall
Japain
Garriott
Twelve Officers Indicted in Drug Raid Scandal
A federal grand jury indicted twelve law officers in a bungled four raids across Collinsville Edwardsville and East St. Louis during April. Charges include depriving residents of constitutional rights obstruction of a criminal investigation perjury and entering private dwellings without probable cause. Several agents were suspended and a misused law enforcement program is defunct.
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Collinsville
St. Louis
Edwards- Wille
Myles. J. Ambrose
Torug Enforcement Administration
East St. Louis
Robert Underwood
Pamela Gitto
Daniel J. Duffy
Dennis Moriarty
Duffy
Underwood
Moriarty
Bureau of Narcotices and Dangerous Drugs
Drug Abuse Law Enforcement Office
Rev. K. Rekas
Fidwardaville
John Meiners
Edwardsville
Kenneth RB. Bloemker
Dennis Harker
William. €. Dwyer
Narcotics Bureau
Ronald J. Olive
Rekas
Tom Teyssi¢er
Southwestern Bell to raise intrastate long distance rates
Southwestern Bell announced a rate hike effective Sept. 24 that will add about 12 million dollars in after tax income annually and raise most three minute intrastate calls by a few cents to as much as 1 cent. Local and out of state calls remain unchanged. The increase targets direct dialing three minute calls and will affect Texas operations, with higher increases for longer intra state distances.
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Dallas
Southwestern Dell Telephone
Iim
Texas
T. O. Gravitt
Tor
Cravitt
Othr
Southwestern Bell
Lubbock
Calis
Gravitt
St Louis Newspapers Silent About Strike
Two St Louis papers halted publication as union workers walked out at midnight after rejecting a three-year contract offer. Teamsters demanded higher pay, with the union seeking a 1.20 per hour hike plus fringe benefits and cost-of-living adjustments, while talks remain suspended pending federal mediator return.
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ST. Louis
APL
Teamsters
Loralho
Slapateh
St.Louis
Viase-Dembcrat
Sixtone Ocmarcin
Acumon
Post-Dispatch
St. Louis County
Texas
The
Post
Globe
Harland Horns
Horn
Mortgage lenders praise rate increase amid housing policy clash
Price Control discusses the Mortgage Bankers Association view that higher rates reflect a real economic shift rather than politics. HUD secretary earns praise for relief to the housing market while builders cite failed federal policies. VA and FHA credits shift to separate authority and a stopgap loan ceiling is authorized during Congress recess.
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Mortgige Bankers Association of America
HUD
Matison
George C. Martin
National Association’ of Home Builders
FHA
Congress
State Legislator Found Innocent in Mis demeanor Trial
Naples Texas AP A jury deliberated less than 19 minutes and found State Rep Boyce R. Lee innocent in a misdemeanor case. Lee 32 year old bachelor in first term faced disorderly conduct charges tied to an incident at trailer home of James P Penney a former legislative aide in Austin. Prosecutors said Lee arrived drunk with a shotgun. Penney testified Lee rammed Penney’s car prior to police arrest. Lee claimed Penney summoned him for personal counseling and fired the shotgun in the doorway.
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Naples
Tex
Boyce R. Lee
The
James P. Penney
Najies
Lee
Penney
Austin
Fred
Bank siege hands take a dramatic turn in Sweden
Gunman Hansson fled to the United States in 1971 after escaping a prison and a 1972 deportation. His inmate ally Olofsson, 26, was moved from a central Sweden prison to the bank to act as getaway driver. Hansson fired on officers and held hostages Kristin Ehnmarkl and Elisabeth Oldgren, 21, who said they would be released if they could leave with him. Authorities barred the hostages from leaving with the gunmen.
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United States
Clark Olofsson
Hansson
Sweden
Olofsson
Kristin Ehnmarkl
Elisabeth Oldgren
Drugs Forced On Retarded Children Allege Texas group
Free Time Slow Inc members held a Capitol news conference alleging institutionalized mentally retarded residents in Travis and Austin state schools are used as human guinea pigs for untested drugs. They cited 38 deaths in 18 months and claimed nonconsent and lack of discharge planning. MHMR disputed the numbers and offered facility tours.
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Richard Halpin
Ben Standley
Ron Johnson
Austin
Free the Slow
Tex
UPI
Iime
Slow, Inc
Capitol
Halpin
Travis
Austin State School
Standley
San Antonio
Terrell State Hospitals
Richmond State School
Hepatitis Shots Slated At Reese Army Base
At Reese Army base 3500 active personnel will receive shots at the base hospital this weekend with some during the week. Shots reduce illness effects not prevent disease, officials say. Cases have been mild and most recuperate at home. No cause found for the outbreak, but precautions continue. Food handlers and family members of patients have been inoculated.
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Col. Whiteside
Reese
Campus maps aid blind students at Tech
A tactile map project at Tech aids blind students in learning building layouts and routes. Jean Baker inspired the idea after reading about MIT tactile maps, with Asher Thompson promoting small maps for distribution this year.
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University of Houston
Greene
Jean Baker
Tech
MIT
Asher Thompson
Stuents
Claude Jones
Commission
Terminal bid tops six million for Lubbock project
Whitaker Hall associates with Hellmuth Obata Kassabaum of St Louis design the Lubbock terminal. Bids Fri set the terminal cost near 6 million with furnishings fixtures jetways and a spraying lot yet to come. City funds total about 8.2 million with 5.9 million civic center share and 2.3 million in federal urban renewal aid.
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Page One
Eda
Whitaker and Hall
Hellmuth
Hall
Civic Center
Carolyn Jordan
Dr. Bradford
Jack
Whitaker
Record High Per Hour Today As Heat Persists Across State
The weather page reports a record hourly high of 18 mph in the afternoon and low humidity of 15 to 25 percent latter sun. Wichita Falls hit 107 degrees as San Angelo and Childress reached 105 with other 100-plus readings in Del Rio Cotulla Waco Abilene and Mineral Wells. Coastal cities stayed cooler in the upper 80s Corpus Christi Galveston Palacios. By mid morning Amarillo Wichita Falls and San Angelo neared 100. The National Weather Service Houston ended its air stagnation advisory as the high pressure ridge shifted east. The outlook calls for hot clear weather through Tuesday with many areas again seeing 100-degree temperatures.
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Wichita Falls
San Angelo
Childress
del Rio
Cotulla
Waco
Abilene
Mineral
Threat on Nixon Continues Amid New Orleans Probe
A bearded ex-officer fired three rifle shots during Nixon remarks at a veterans convention in New Orleans but caused no injuries. Gaudet, who fled for two days, surrendered after his wife and cousin offered to bring him in. He claimed the government is organized crime and spoke of Angela Davis for president. Authorities traced him to a New Mexico commune after last year’s flag-throwing incident.
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Nixon
New Orleans
Secret Service
Gaudet
Judy
Angela Davis
Morning Star
New Mexico
Police Continue Search For Girl's Kidnapper
An 11-year-old Mission Hills girl abducted Thursday night was found unconscious in a suburban shopping center parking lot. She remained in a coma, listed in serious condition with a possible concussion at Marina Mercy Hospital in Marina Del Rey. police pursued a middle aged man believed to be her abductor.
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Tracy Gayle Greenfield
Ucla Medical Center
Los Angeles
Mission Hills
Tracy Gayle Greefield
Marina Mercy Hospital
Marina del Rey
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