Heaviest Hanoi Haiphong raid costly for U S forces
U S planes carried out the night’s heaviest attack on the Hanoi Haiphong area with two B52s and a Fill fighter bomber lost and eight airmen missing. Hanoi claimed several fliers captured and civilians killed or wounded. Seven Americans were rescued in Thailand. North Vietnam vowed to resist Nixon’s bombing push.
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U S Air Strikes Shift From South Vietnam to North
Reports indicate ER BOMBERS conducted strikes in South Vietnam on Monday at about half their usual rate as a major diversion grows toward the North, with smaller aircraft also redirected to northern attacks.
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U.N Assembly Ends With Quiet Accomplishments
The U.N. General Assembly closes its 27th session with modest gains in environment sea law and education. U.S. ambassador Bush cites quiet progress while failing to push action on international terrorism. The body creates an environmental council and Nairobi secretariat and plans a law of the sea conference. It approves a university and considers space satellite broadcasting principles amid limited confrontations.
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One GOP Elector Breaks Ranks In Nixon Vote
Washington AP reports one Virginia GOP elector defied his party to vote Libertarian John Hospers and Theodora Nathan. Nixon leads with 517 of 638 electoral votes after ballots cast in state capitals and DC. Massachusetts and DC votes went to McGovern, Alaska’s electors kept votes secret.
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Apollo 17 Ends Moon Mission Return Home From Space Center
Apollo 17 returns to Earth ending the Apollo program. Astronauts Eugene Cernan Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans land in the South Pacific after a 12 day mission from Cape Kennedy. They describe lunar sampling and a broad spectrum of lunar history while Mission Control streams news.
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Space
Schmitt
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Rubella declines 44 percent in year, CDC reports
The National Center for Disease Control reports a 44 percent drop in rubella cases year over year, with 21,424 cases in the first 39 weeks. Vaccination campaigns begun in 1969 aim to curb infections that threaten unborn children. The CDC notes prior rubella outbreaks caused about 30,000 affected babies and similar miscarriage totals, while this year shows 25 birth-defect cases versus 42 previously.
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National Center For Disease Control
CDC
Town Returns Revenue Funds In Texas Bid Back
COAHOMA, Tex. AP The town council of this West Texas town of 1 100 voted 3 to 1 to return a 1699 revenue sharing check to the U S Treasury. Mayor Jack Cauble said the eight page instruction pamphlet and looming permanent regulations made the funds impractical to use under burdensome bookkeeping and a separate federally audited account.
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Jack Cauble
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Treasury
Weather Outlook With Mild Rain Tonight and Warming
Cloudy and cooler with a chance of light rain tonight and lows in the middle 20s. Partly cloudy Wednesday with highs in the lower 40s. Precipitation chances 20 percent. High temperature Monday 39, low during night 34. Sunrise 7 27, sunset 4 34.
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