Doctors examine Apollo astronauts before joint mission
Space agency doctors at Johnson Space Center in Houston examine Thomas Stafford Vance Brand and Donald Slayton to certify readiness for a joint Apollo Soyuz flight with cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov. Procedures include physical fitness tests and baseline medical data gathering.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Space Agency
Johnson Space Center
Houston
Charges Dropped in Portland Hotel Arson Case
Police dropped arson and murder charges against John Joseph Newvile after a service station attendant misidentified him as the gasoline buyer. Investigators say gasoline was poured on the second floor landing of the Pomona Hotel in a skid row blaze that killed nine people, with another man being questioned.
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Portland
Ore
John Joseph Newvile
Pomona
Skid Row
Newvile
Newvine
Steven Robertson
Ohio State Fair opens solar home to public tours
The solar home at the Ohio State Fair will be open 12 days from August 21 to September 1. Manager John F. Evans says the project was a joint effort by Ohio State University Department of Mechanical Engineering and Homewood Corp with 40 other organizations. Tours cost 25 cents and the home sits north of 17th Avenue across from the Lausche Building midway.
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Columbus
Ohio
John F. Evans
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ohio State University
Homewood Corp. of
17Th Ave
Lausche
Moderate Midwest quake rattles four states
A 5.0 magnitude earthquake was felt across western Minnesota, southeastern North Dakota, eastern South Dakota, and northwestern Iowa. No injuries or major damage were reported though some structures cracked in Alberta and Wheaton. The Morris event, centered about 10 miles west, was Minnesota's seventh quake in 130 years and first since 1950.
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Morris, Minn
Midwest
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Iowa
Minnesota Geological Survey
Alberta
Wheaton
Minn
U S and Mexico Crack Down on Drug Smuggling Ring
Authorities in the United States and Mexico say they have arrested at least 25 people and are pursuing others in what a Mexican official calls the world's most important drug trafficking operation. The joint operation targets a major smuggling network with links to cross border trafficking and organized crime.
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Associated Press
U.S
Pedro Ojeda Paullada
Teday
United States
Ojeda Paullada
Colombia
Mexico
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration
DEA
San Diego
Calif
California
Florida
Maine
Diego
Pine Ridge suspect arrested on reservation killings case
James Theodore Eagle, 19, surrendered to U S marshals in Rapid City as the last of four Pine Ridge suspects held on warrants from a June 23 assault and robbery on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Teddy Pourier Herman Thunderhawk and Hobart Horse had been arrested earlier.
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Rapid City
S.D
Pine Ridge, S.D
FBI
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
James Theodore Eagle
U.S
Teddy PP. Pourier
Herman Thunderhawk
Hobart Horse
Pine Ridge
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