Apollo 15 astronauts begin debriefs and rock studies
Apollo 15 crew David Scott James Irwin and Alfred Worden start several weeks of debriefings at Space Center Houston to share minute details of their moon voyage. Geologists prepare to open moon rock boxes from Hadley Rille as doctors report all three in good condition after splashdown.
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Space Center, Houston
Lunar
Hadley Rille
David R. Scott
James B. Irwin
Alfred M. Worden
Scott
Irwin
Moon
Okinawa
Air Force
Hawaii
Ellington Air Force Base
Worden
Space Center
Earth
Solar System
Sett
Spar Crater
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Nixon
Paul VI
Georges Pompidou
France
Hickam Air Force Base
Endeavour
James Cook
Pacific
Agnew Denies Bias In Trip Coverage
Boston AP report quotes Vice President Spiro T. Agnew defending recent global trip coverage as mostly objective while criticizing some reporting as biased. He cites not stopping for color events or poverty, saying diplomacy requires communication with heads of government and officials.
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Boston
Spiro T. Agnew
Christian Science Monitor
The
Monitor
Rabat
Weather County Forecast For Period Ahead
Variable cloudiness and mild today through Tuesday with scattered thundershowers this evening. Tight southerly winds today and tonight. High Tuesday in the upper 80s, low tonight in the upper 60s. Precipitation chances 20 percent today 40 percent tonight 20 percent Tuesday. Saturday high 78 Sunday low 63. high 86 today. Year-ago highs 78 lows 73. Record high 112 in 1936 record low 54 in 1939. 24 hour precipitation ending 8 a.m. .08 inch. Hourly temps ending at 8 a.m. today.
India and Soviet Union sign 20 year peace pact
New Delhi reports India and the Soviet Union signed a 20 year treaty of peace friendship and cooperation. The pact includes nonaggression and mutual consultations if attacked while forbidding military alliances against each other and calling for expanded economic scientific and cultural ties. It runs for 20 years and auto renews every five years unless terminated with notice.
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New Delhi
India
Soviet Union
Pakistan
Swaran Singh
Asia
Andrei A. Gromyko
Singh
East
Russia
China
United States
America
Central Treaty Organization
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Peking
U.S
State Department
White House
Gromyko
Rioting in Belfast Surges as Four Die in Street Violence
Fresh Belfast rioting followed Prime Minister Faulkner's internment order for IRA leaders. Four dead, hundreds arrested as mobs hijack vehicles, protestants and Catholics clash, troops deploy rubber bullets. A driver was slain earlier. total British casualties rise this year.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Brian Faulkner
Irish Republican Army
Patrick McAdorey
Faulkner
Derry
Londonderry
Harry Thornton
Thornton
Marshal Wounded in Kansas City Prison Search
Deputy U.S. marshal William M. Miller age 27 from New Orleans was shot twice in the arm by inmate Joseph Crispo in the federal building during a cell search. Crispo, 47, had been searched twice before arriving from Leavenworth. no weapons were found. Miller listed in good condition at St. Margaret Hospital.
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Kansas City
Kan
U.S
U.S. Penitentiary
Leavenworth
William M. Miller
New Orleans
St. Margaret Hospital
Joseph Crispo
Prairie Park Bill Faces Delays and Hearings
Lawrence Wagner of the Governor's Prairie Park Commission said there has been little change in the Prairie Park Bill status in Congress. Skubitz’s spokesman noted questions raised with the National Park Service remain largely unanswered and hearings appear distant, though the 14 member panel remains optimistic about the bill’s prospects along the Flint Hills region near the Nebraska to Oklahoma corridor.
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Washington
Joe Shaves
Congress
Governor's Commission For the
Park Service
House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
Skubitz
National
Kansas
Wagner
Flint Hills
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Nixon Signs Lockheed Loan Bill
President Nixon signed a measure allowing Lockheed Aircraft Corp to borrow 250 million dollars in government guaranteed loans from private sources. The bill passed the House 192 to 189 on July 30 and cleared the Senate 49 to 48 on August 2, giving Nixon a narrow four vote victory.
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Washington
Nixon
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
House
Senate
City and County Budgets Face Public Scrutiny
City Hall hearing on Ottawa 1972 budget drew one visitor, while about 20 Franklin County Taxpayers Association members questioned the county welfare and budget plans at the Courthouse. Officials explained aid standards, work requirements, stepchild payments, and salaries. They noted rental and shelter rules follow state statutes and that welfare outreach aims to inform rather than argue. Debates also touched on noxious weeds and funding for the Franklin County Historical Society.
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Jewel Scott
City of
Ottawa
Franklin County Taxpayers’ Association
E. B. Leatherberry
Willow
Franklin County Humane Society
Franklin County
Wanda Baird
Social Welfare Board
Association
Roy E. Swank
Welfare Department
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Orlis Cox Field
American Legion
Agnew
Trip
Lockheed
Franklin County Historical Society
Lee C. Nichols
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