Soviets complete first space dock with two ships linked
Two Soviet cosmonauts transfer from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4 in orbit marking the first docking of manned spacecraft. Yevgeny Khrunov and Alexei Yeliseyev don space suits with new life support as Vladimir Shatalov remains in Soyuz 4. Tass notes the one hour space walk and confirms good condition of all crewmembers.
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Round Table at Hanoi Talks Sets Stage for Resumed Peace
Paris dispatch reports the Vietnam peace talks will resume Saturday after eight months of stalemate. Representatives from the United States, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the National Liberation Front will sit around an unmarked round table at the International Conference Center. W Averell Harriman, the U.S ambassador, will oversee the session as he retires.
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Cleanup aboard Enterprise continues as probe seeks cause
The Navy presses cleanup on the Enterprise after explosions and a fire killed 25 sailors and injured 85 with one missing. The 85,000 ton carrier suffered extensive damage to its flight deck during a training exercise southwest of Honolulu. Investigators aim to determine the exact cause while the ship heads toward Alameda for repairs.
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Middletown Sailor Safe Aboard USS Enterprise
Seaman 3.C. Gary Lee Gomie, 20, of Middletown, is reported well and safe aboard the USS Enterprise. His mother, Mrs. Joseph Gomin, received word via a Cincinnati short-wave operator, noting he joined the Navy in May 1967 after jet mechanic training in Millington. He was assigned to the Enterprise last November.
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Middletown Weather Forecast Clarifies Rain Across Weekend
The Middletown forecast calls for cloudy and warmer conditions with occasional rain today and Friday. Highs will reach the upper 50s with lows in the 40s, and Saturday will be cloudy and mild. Rain is expected. yesterday's high was 38 and this morning's low was 32.
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Franklin Airman Killed Aboard Enterprise
Franklin Navy airman David M. Asbury 21 home on leave was among 25 killed aboard the carrier Enterprise during explosions on the flight deck. He leaves a wife Rita Jean and four month old daughter Tracy Ann, plus parents and eight siblings. Asbury, a Springboro High School graduate, enlisted Feb 25 1967 after basic at Great Lakes. Full services planned by Eaton Funeral Home.
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Israeli Jets Hit Jordan In Cross Border Raid
Israeli jets struck Arab guerrilla positions inside Jordan targeting a patrol along the Jordan River cease fire line near Maoz Haim. One Israeli soldier was wounded as artillery and air attacks backed the evacuation and continued bombardment of guerrilla positions.
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Viet Cong Ambush Fails To Break Allied Grip On Batangan Peninsula
Vietnamese forces trapped on Batangan Peninsula staged an ambush that killed two U S Marines and wounded five, with enemy casualties unknown. Across Da Nang to Quang Ngai, four more Americans died and 16 wounded, while U S forces killed 36 enemy troops. Two more helicopters were shot down, leaving total American helicopters lost at 983. Five Navy sailors died and five were wounded when their harbor boat struck a mine near the Cua Viet River. In An Khe a 40 minute fight left eight North Vietnamese dead and 11 U S paratroopers wounded. The weekly casualty tally shows 151 U S battle deaths for the week ending Jan 11, with 30 795 U S deaths in the war overall and 194 234 wounded. South Vietnamese losses stood at 183 dead and 822 wounded.
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NATO Leaders Approve Five Year Defense Plan
NATO defense ministers in Brussels approve five year goals with modest troop and matériel increases amid the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. West Germany tightens spending, while Britain reallocates a carrier to the Mediterranean and European contributions rise for the first time.
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Britain's first underwater arrest in Channel Islands
In St Peter Port Guernsey Police Constable David Archer signaled and fined 32 year old David Kempthorne-Ley for illegal ormering 45 feet below the surface. The court confiscated his ormer hook and net. The case hinged on a local law allowing ormering only four days from the full moon.
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