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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1972
Page
18
Gov Rockefeller balks at a veto threat while the legislature considers a bill to nearly ban abortions in New York. The measure would permit abortions only to save the mother life, reviving a standard from a century ago and overturning recent liberalization.
Lt Randy Cunningham and Lt William Driscoll downed three MIGs over North Vietnam becoming America's first Vietnam War aces. After their F4 Phantom was hit by a surface-to-air missile they ditched in the Gulf of Tonkin and were rescued by a helicopter from the carrier Constellation.
Kellogg Idaho AP rescue team found four more bodies at the 3,400 foot level, raising total dead to 51 in the Sunshine mine fire. Efforts to reach 5,200 feet to locate 40 missing men slowed by smoke and gas fears. Two miners were rescued alive after a week entombed in another shaft.
Charles C. Conrad Jr the third man to walk on the moon bailed out of a Navy jet near Bergstrom Texas and landed about 100 yards from the operations center. The 41 year old Navy captain was unharmed after his T38 crashed in a Texas hill country field. He underwent routine tests at Bergstrom and remains slated to command a 28 day Skylab mission next April.
In Houston, authorities arrested a woman and two men on a car theft charge after a suspect fled into a wooded area. Officers borrowed two young bystanders' horses to pursue the suspect, while a helicopter assisted the chase.
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