Raids Hit Communist Forces Near Saigon and Other News
US and South Vietnamese troops air and ground assault Communist bunkers fortifications and sampans near Saigon while B 52s dive bombers and helos strike. Also Ohio State football prep in Rose Bowl Dirk Worden knee injury and weather related crashes in Ohio. Nixon recovers from flu swims in Bahamas and Israel Arab tensions rise with Greek charges against Arab commandos. Flu plateau noted in Ohio health chief Calvin Spencer reports and spinach nitrate study links to infant poisoning in Germany France with Southern California wells cited.
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Saigon
UPS
Los Angeles
Ohio State Buckeye
Southern California
Buckeyes
Dirk Worden
Apollo 8 Returns From Moon Orbit Safe Landing on Yorktown
Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders splashed down in the Pacific near the Yorktown after a record break journey around the moon. They described the entry as thrilling and not green cheese but American cheese. The crew traveled 500000 miles and orbited the moon ten times collecting photographs and data.
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Yorktown
API
Frank Borman
James Lovell
William Anders
Pacific
Moon
Borman
Cape Kennedy
Space
Mankind
Earth
Mid- Pacific
Christmas Island
Houston Control Center
Norwalk Area Weather Warns Of Rain Then Snow Flurries
Travelers warned of rain or freezing rain today turning to rain and changing to snow flurries Saturday. Highs in the 40s, lows in the 30s, winds SE today then S tonight. Norwalk Thursday highs around 36, lows near 16. Rainfall around .09 inches. Births list includes Slawczka Elyria daughter and Lydy Willard, Snyder Willard, Foos Attica, Athy Attica. Marriage license applications include Wiedemann Meyer Norwalk and others. Deaths: Kissel Greenwich, Fry Norwalk 53, Tulin Detroit 56.
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Norwalk
Poverty group proposes tenant protection ordinance in Norwalk
The Norwalk Grassroots Organization unveils a 30 page rental rights ordinance to the Mayor's Committee on Human Relations. It would treat renting a house as a contract with duties on tenants and landlords and suspend evictions when a tenant files housing complaints.
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Norwalk
George Hayduk
Grassroots Committee
Grassroots Housing Committee
Hayduk
Harold Finch
Apollo 8 victory sparks new space era says Paine
NASA Acting head Dr. Thomas Paine hailed Apollo 8 as a triumph and said its return marks the beginning of a lasting movement to explore space. He projected further moon missions in 1969 and 1970, stressed the goal of a lunar landing before 1970 end, and called the mission a unifying, almost spiritual achievement for all mankind.
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Houston
Lovell
Space Center
Thomas C. Paine
U.S. Space Agency
Houston Space Center
Universe
Edward K. Delong
UPI
Space Winter Space Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Thomas O. Paine
Paine
United States
Frank Borman
James Lovell
William Anders
Kennedy
Earth
Allen Exits Rams After Feud With Owner Reeves
George Allen, Rams head coach for three seasons, is fired after a “personality clash” with owner Dan Reeves. Allen, 46, leaves with roughly two years and about 50 000 dollars per year remaining on his contract. His three-season Rams record stands at 29 1 3.
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Los Angeles
UPI
George Allen
Dan Reeves
Los Angeles Rams
Allen
Rams
Reeves
Baltimore
Green Bay Packers
New York Giants
Ram
Kezar Stadium
San Francisco Forty Niners
The
Des Moines Kidnapping Case Ends in Murder Charge
Pamela Powers, 10, missing since Christmas Eve, was found dead in a snowdrift near a rural Mitchellville area. Robert Williams, 24, an escaped mental patient, surrendered and led police to the body, facing murder charges. Autopsy pending. authorities consider YMCA involvement as the investigation continues.
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Des Moines
Iowa
UPI
Pamela Powers
Des Moines Ymca
Pretty Little Blonde
Robert Anthony Williams
Mitchellville
Pamela
Urbandale
YMCA
Mark
Williams
Fulton
Kansas City
Henry T. McKnight
Davenport
Wendell Nichols
Employes
Pueblo Inquiry Doubts Court Martial for Pueblo Crew
Pentagon sources say virtually no chance any USS Pueblo crew member will face court martial for actions during 11 months as prisoners in North Korea. A San Diego court of inquiry will review routine conduct amid questions of wartime legality and possible NK complicity.
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United States
North Korea
Navy Judicial Board
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Buckeye Star
United Press International
Ohio
Columbus
Cleveland
Nixon
Fly
Bay Biscayne, Fla
Israel
Jerusalem
Athens
New York
Vassilios Papanastassiou
Calvin B. Spencer
State Health Department
Dallas
American Association of the Advancement of Science
Barry Commoner
Germany
France
Commoner
Center For the Biology of Natural Systems
Washington University
California
U.S. Public Health Service
Apollo
Houston Control
Hawaii
Borman, Lovell
Anders
Robert Slawczka
Elyria
Alan Lydy, Willard
Ugubmlcl VW
George Snyder
Willard
William Foos
Attica
Clarence Athy
Robert L. Wiedemann
Joanne M. Meyer
Dan C. Shepherd
Shiloh
Sharlene Biddinger
Plymouth
Ted W. McIntyre
June A. Pleasnick
Donald L. Slanczka
Wakeman
U.S. Army
Benny L. Bartow
Wayne E. Fast
Emma J. Patterson
New Haven
Sherman Kissel
Greenwich
Forest W. Fry, Sr
Walnut St
Glenn N. Tulin
Detroit
Ram Boss
Pueblo
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