Three Cosmonauts Die In Flight Back To Earth
Three Soviet cosmonauts perished as Soyuz 11 returned from a record three week flight aboard the Salute space laboratory. Officials suggested their oxygen system failed during reentry and an investigation is underway. The crew, Lt. Col. Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev, were found dead after the hatch was opened following a safe-looking landing. Dobrovolsky and Patsayev left behind two children each, Volkov one son.
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Gravel releases Pentagon papers in Indochina troop strategy
Secretary of Defense McNamara advised Kennedy by November 8 1961 to link any troop commitment in Indochina with a readiness to strike North Vietnam according to top secret Pentagon papers.
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Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Kennedy
Indochina
North Vietnam
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McNamara backs Taylor plan for Mekong Delta task force
Sen. Gravel released Pentagon documents showing McNamara sent Kennedy a proposal from Roswell Gilpatric and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The plan urged a U S task force into the Mekong Delta to engage Viet Cong forces, with Taylor telling the President the force would have to fight. The memo notes conditional adoption of the Taylor program.
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Mike Gravel
Alaska
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Draft Law May Die Before Congress Can OK Extension
Washington AP says Congress rushes to extend the draft, as Mansfield resists compromises for Indochina pullout. With a midnight deadline, the Selective Service would halt inductions unless extended or Nixon orders a callup. officials nationwide prepare to pause procedures while preinduction activities continue.
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Selective Service
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Senate Keeps Space Shuttle Plan Alive in Budget Vote
Washington AP reports the Senate rejected Mondale’s amendment to cut 100 million from the 3.2 billion space budget, then approved the full measure 82 to 5. NASA describes a reusable shuttle capable of vertical takeoff and horizontal landings, with potential 100 plus reuses and satellite return capability. The bill funds fiscal 1971 and the near final manned lunar flights this decade.
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U.S. Space Program
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Walter F. Mondale
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States race to make 18 year vote amendment official
Illinois completed ratification bringing total to 35 states. Five more legislatures ready to act could push the measure past the threshold of 38 needed for citizens 18 to vote in all elections. If approved, it would be the 26th Amendment.
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Congress rushes Senate approved jobs bill in election year
Washington AP reports Congress moves rapidly on a 2.25 billion public service jobs measure amid a veto fight over a 5.6 billion public works bill. Senate passed emergency employment act 75 11 and aims to send to the White House before July fourth recess. Democrats plan to pursue a veto override after recess. The bill would create 150,000 to 200,000 jobs in state and local governments in the first year, targeting areas with unemployment over 6 percent, while inflation concerns and timing questions persist. The White House argues similar programs from 1962 would take 18 months to be effective.
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Gunmen Rob Strasbourg Post Office of 2.09 Million
Masked gunmen hijacked a shipment of 11.6 million francs worth about 2 088 000 dollars from Strasbourg central post office after a guard left for home. Four to six assailants reportedly loaded eight sacks of francs in minutes shortly after 9 am.
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Strasbourg
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Nun Refuses Testimony Faces Contempt Charges
A Roman Catholic nun, Sister Carol Vericker, 29, was ordered to answer contempt charges after refusing to testify before a federal grand jury. The panel is believed to probe Rev. Phillip F. Berrigan and other antiwar activists awaiting trial in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Vericker cited secrecy about the probe, while federal officials refused to disclose its purpose. Suspect Susan Susman alerted reporters to the proceedings.
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Phillip F. Berrigan
Harrisburg
Carol Vericker
Susan Susman
Miss Susman
Environmental Bureau Chief Looks Back at Year
Albany reporter notes State Environmental Department commissioner Henry L. Diamond reviews the first year of EnCon since July 1, 1970. He cites internal program overlap and a planned nine region reorganization to streamline operations. Diamond questions citizen willingness to pay ecological costs amid Earth Day momentum and possible public pushback.
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State Environmental Department
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Adirondack Northway
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Priest found strangled in Chicago hotel room
Police have no leads in the strangling of Rev. Charles Barlassina, 44, a New York Roman Catholic priest traveling from New York to San Diego. He was found bound at his wrists and ankles in a downtown Chicago hotel room, with $500 to $1,000 missing from his wallet.
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Charles Barlassina
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Soviet Jews receive new prison terms in Leningrad hijack case
Moscow reports nine more Soviet Jews were sentenced to one to five years in labor camps for involvement in the Leningrad hijack plot or for stealing a copying machine to distribute anti-Soviet propaganda. The total convicted in the June 1970 plan to escape to Israel on a hijacked airliner rises to 34.
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Leningrad
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Nixon announces Turkish opium poppy crackdown plan
President Nixon said Turkey will eliminate opium poppy production by mid-1972, a move he called the most significant breakthrough in stopping heroin supply to the United States, as he spoke with reporters at the White House.
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Nixon
United States
White House
Turkey
Nixon Aide Kissinger Sets 10 Day Fact Finding Trip
Henry A Kissinger will depart Thursday on a 10 day mission to South Vietnam Paris and other Far East destinations the White House announced. The trip aims to gather information and assess policy directions from key capitals and theaters of operation.
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Henry A. Kissinger
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Students Get Reprimands at Mynderse Academy Graduation
In Seneca Falls New York 88 students received reprimands instead of diplomas at Mynderse Academy graduation on Sunday night due to disgraceful conduct at an assembly on June 14. Reprimanded students could later collect their diplomas at the school office.
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Mynderse Academy
Raymond Radtke
Marine Midland to raise prime rate on mortgages in Syracuse
Syracuse banks report Marine Midland Bank Central will boost its prime rate for conventional mortgages from 7 percent to 7.44 percent, effective Thursday. The move mirrors a rate Marine had before a February decrease, with no other Syracuse banks matching the change.
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Crime rises nationally in early 1971 but declines in 61 cities
National crime climbed 6 percent in the first quarter of 1971 from the same period a year earlier while Attorney General John N. Mitchell said crime actually fell in 61 large cities. Property crime rose more slowly than in 1970 though violent crime grew slightly faster.
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John N. Mitchell
Seek to Avert Strike BINGHAMTON via N Y AP
Mediators from state and federal levels entered negotiations between New York State Electric and Gas Company and International Brotherhood of Electric Workers Local 1132. The dispute affects about 2,800 union members and 500,000 customers. a strike would begin at midnight if no agreement by 5 p.m.
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N. Y
New York State Electric and Gas Company
International Brotherhood of Electric Workers
Union
Nixon On End Of Permissive Law Enforcement Era
Nixon declared the era of permissiveness in enforcing the law is over in the United States during FBI National Academy graduation. He praised Hoover, noted the support of police nationwide, and urged law enforcement officials not to be discouraged as public backing remains strong. Attorney General Mitchell lambasted a tidal wave of legalisms delaying arrests, trials, and punishments.
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FBI National Academy
Nixon Ales
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
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Atty
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Motive sought in Colombo shooting case
Police pursue theories after reputed Mafia leader Joseph Colombo Sr. was shot as he prepared to lead an outdoor Italian American civil rights rally. Colombo, 48, remained in a coma with a 50 50 chance of survival. detectives seek links to Jerome A Johnson and possible ties to black mobs alleged in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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Joseph A. Colombo
Colombo
Albert Seedman
Jerome A. Johnson
Johnson
Harlem
Brooklyn
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Joseph Gallo
Miami Beach Lands Demo Convention For 1972
City officials estimate 12 to 15 million dollars in business from the Democratic National Convention to be held in Miami Beach next summer. Officials also review security arrangements as the party confirms the site.
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Miami Beach
Democratic National Committee
Party
July 4 Holiday Traffic Fatalities Estimated
The National Safety Council projects 520 to 620 traffic deaths over the July 4 weekend. The 78hour span runs from 6 p.m. Friday July 2 to midnight Monday July 5. AP counted 553 deaths over the Memorial Day weekend, with 540 a year earlier.
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National Safety Council
Associated Press
Ammunition depot at Qui Nhon hit in Viet Cong mortar attack
Viet Cong mortars destroyed the region’s largest ammunition depot at Qui Nhon, wiping out over 10,000 tons of shells and bombs. The strike, the second day in a row, imperiled allied operations for days. casualties included four South Vietnamese soldiers dead and at least 13 wounded.
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South Vietnam
Qui Nhon
Demilitarized Zone
U.S. 101St Airborne Division
Phu Bai
U.S
da Nang
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