Apollo 10 mission gears up for moon orbit test flight
Cape Kennedy Florida AP reports Apollo 10 astronauts Stafford Young and Cernan cleared to launch Sunday on a Saturn 5 to orbit the moon for 31 revolutions in eight days. A dehumidifier issue was fixed, paving the way for a rehearsal of lunar landing steps ahead of Apollo 11.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Space Agency
Charles A. Berry
Thomas P Safford
Eugene A. Ceman
John W. Young
George H. Hage
United States
Georgia Tech
Thomas P. Stafford
Eugene A Cernan
Earth
Stafford
Cernan
Moon
Neil A Armstrong
Edwin F. Aldrin
Faye Stafford
Barbara Young
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Tex
King Baudouin
Queen Fabiola
Belgium
Agnew
Balding Stafford
Second Soviet Venus craft plunges fiery into atmosphere
Moscow reports Venus 6 descended into Venus atmosphere 186 miles from Venus 5 entry. Data were sent back during a four month mission while probes carried Lenin pennants. Officials noted no soft landing confirmed. radios may have failed. The project chief designer cited future unmanned missions toward Mercury.
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Venus
Tass
Earth
Lenin
Mercury
Venus Project
Izvestia
Viet Cong Threat Pressures Bien Hoa Saigon Area
U S and South Vietnamese forces brace for renewed action as Viet Cong 5th Division mobilizes near Long Binh Bien Hoa complex north of Saigon. Two battalions of the 1st Air Cavalry shift from War Zone C to Zone D to protect the base amid warning of stepped up operations tied to Rogers visit and Ho Chi Minh birthday.
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Long Binh
Bien Hoa
Saigon
U.S. Army
South Vietnam
U.S. 2Nd Field Force
William P. Rogers
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
1St Air Cavalry Division
Nixon tours USS Saratoga in Armed Forces Day display
President Nixon visited the Atlantic Fleet carrier 45 miles off Norfolk aboard the USS Saratoga. He praised the armed forces as peacekeepers after presenting Medals of Honor to two Army heroes. The show featured supersonic fighters, drone interception, and 500 pound bombs dropped near the deck amid clear seas.
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Saratoga
Nixon
Norfolk
United States
OSU Plane Found No Survivors in NC Crash
A Friday flight from Ohio State University to Augusta Georgia carrying four aboard was found wrecked on Blue Rock Mountain in Hendersonville area western North Carolina. Authorities reported no survivors after a ground search followed a local resident report of possible crash sounds.
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Hendersonville
N.C. AP
Ohio State University
Augusta
Blue Rock Mountain
North Carolina
W. B. Gregory
Commandos Hit Israeli Outpost Near Jordan River
Arab guerrillas aided by Jordanian forces launched a major raid on an Israeli outpost four miles south of the Damiya Bridge. Twelve attackers and one Israeli medic were reported dead, with about 15 captured near the outpost’s outer defenses as the clash unfolded at dawn.
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Associated Press
Jordan River
Tel Aviv
al Fatah
Amman
Damiya
Weekend Weather: Showers Scattered and Cooler
The forecast calls for scattered showers and possible thundershowers today and Monday. Tonight will be cooler with a low in the 50s. daytime highs will reach the low 60s.
American Baptists Elect First Black President
The American Baptist Convention elected Rev. Dr. Thomas Kilgore Jr. as president, making him the first Black leader of the 1.5 million member group. Kilgore, pastor of Second Baptist Church in Los Angeles, was chosen after nomination committee support. The 62nd annual meeting in Seattle ends with Kilgore as head, Davison as first vice president, and Mrs. Kenneth G. Black as second vice president, while the convention comprises about 6,200 churches.
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Seattle
American Baptist Convention
Thomas Kilgore Jr
Second Baptist Church
Los Angeles
James Gary Davison
Towa City
Kenneth G. Black
Scotia
N.Y
Kilgore
Woodruff, S.C
Morehouse College
Atlanta
Union Theological Seminary
New York
Asheville
N.C
Winston-Salem
Walnut Cove
New York City
Washington
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Davison
Oneida
First Baptist Church
Iowa City
American Baptist
University of Iowa
Black
Emmanuel Baptist Church
Schenectady
American Baptist Women
New York State
Baptist Convention
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National Aeronautics and Space Council
Thomas C. Paine
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Barbara Cernan
Moscow
Rth
Armed Forces
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Thomas Collins
Norman Peale
Valley News
Women’s
Family Weekly
OSU
Toronto
Canada
American Baptists
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