Early SST Report Calls for Cancellation and Termination Funds
A March 1969 presidential panel recommended canceling SST contracts and ending government backing. OST released the secret report to counter impressions of withholding data amid lawsuits. Congress had killed SST funding, citing high costs, technical risk, sonic boom concerns, and environmental damage.
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Washington
Nixon
Office of Science and Technology
Peter L. Koff
American Civil Liberties Union
Edward H. David
Congress
Richhard L. Garwin
International Business Machines
New York
Seven Raid Strikes Along Northern Front
U S B52 bombers staged seven raids on South Vietnam's northern frontier as a 10 day old North Vietnamese offensive continued. More than 600 tons of explosives were dropped on DMZ area positions while North Vietnamese rocket and mortar attacks persisted. Saigon said five fresh shellings hit bases along the DMZ and one marine unit suffered a fatality and two wounded in a skirmish. US forces near Da Nang killed 14 North Vietnamese troops, captured two wounded soldiers, and seized documents and gear, with no American casualties.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
le Trung Hi
Stores Blaze in Belfast and Londonderry Violence
A Belfast explosion set a block of shops ablaze as eight stores burned for hours, with two wounded and a gunman fleeing after a showroom incident. In Londonderry British troops fired at a man aiming at them. overall, Northern Ireland saw one of its calmer nights amid a surge of violence, with 29 deaths since August and 87 for the year. London discussions suggested Prime Minister Heath would not recall Parliament to debate Ireland crisis, aiming to cool tensions.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Londonderry
London
Edward Heath
Harold Wilson
Labor
Heath
Ireland
KU Medical Center halts abortions indefinitely in Kansas City
Dr. William Rieke, vice chancellor of health affairs at the University of Kansas, ordered an indefinite suspension of all abortions at KU Medical Center to ensure compliance with the law. About 2,000 abortions were performed in the year ending July 1. The center may resume as soon as Tuesday amid staffing shortages due to vacations.
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Kansas City
Kan
William 0. Reike
University of Kansas
KU Medical Center
Rieke
Inmate Milum Sentenced In Escape Conviction
Stephen Decatur Milum, 27, an inmate at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, was sentenced in Wyandotte County District Court to a one to five year term for an escape. He had been at the University of Kansas Medical Center after suffering what was believed to be a heart attack at the prison following a prior robbery sentence.
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Executive Branch
Washington
Koff
District Court
John H. Pratt
David
OST
Kansas City
Kan
Kansas State Penitentiary
Lansing
Wyandotte County
Stephen Decatur Milum
Milum
University of Kansas Medical Center
Dia
Secretaries Claim Slavery Persists Worldwide Despite Ban
UNITED NATIONS New York AP More than a hundred years after Lincoln slavery persists in a few hundred thousand people says Col Patrick Montgomery secretary of the Anti Slavery Society of London He cites the 1956 Geneva Convention’s broad ban and estimates about 10 million in involuntary servitude with servile marriage potentially boosting that total He notes evidence of such practices in several African Asian and Latin American countries including cases of flogging branding starvation and forced opium cultivation involving children and domestic servitude and sexual exploitation.
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United Nations
N.Y
Abraham Lincoln
United States
Patrick Montgomery
Anti-Slavery Society of London
Montgomery
U.N
Kentucky Adopts Uniform Water Quality Standards
FRANKFORT KY AP state adopts uniform water quality standards for all waterways using stream classification by use across Kentucky. Sets aim to protect drinking water, recreation, and wildlife.
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Frankfort
Kentucky
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