Nighttime Apollo Launch Rescuers Practice In Dark
CAPE KENNEDY Fila AP The nighttime Apollo 17 launch prompted blindfold style training for Air Force rescue crews. Lt Col Raymond Boyd leads four HH53 choppers to reach the capsule within 30 minutes if abort occurs. Seventy-eight rescuers train for sea and marsh recoveries with xenon lights and flares to aid night operations.
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Cape Kennedy
Fila
Air Force
Raymond A. Boyd
Atlantic Ocean
Boyd
Cape
U.S
Transito Trujillo
Tucumcari
N.M
Military Court reviews Calley case in My Lai ruling
A three judge Army Court of Military Review in Falls Church Va began a review of Lt William L Calley Jr s murder conviction and 20 year sentence after his lawyers appealed as too harsh Calley 29 was found guilty of killing at least 22 Vietnamese civilians during the My Lai massacre on March 16 1968 The defense argues lack of malice and seeks manslaughter or clemency while the government asserts the actions were murder and upheld by the court martial proceedings
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Falls Church
William L. Calley Jr
My Lai
Calley
George W. Latimer
Latimer
Lt. Calley
J. Houston Gordon
Covington
Tenn
Nixon
William C. Westmoreland
Westmoreland
Vietnam
Army
Court of Military Appeals
Army Clemency and Parole Board
Welfare Errors Put Bills At Risk Across States
Washington AP reports the government will cut up to 683 million in federal welfare funds next year if states strip ineligible and overpaid recipients. HEW will implement mandatory spot checks, aiming to purge 700,000 AFDC recipients and 150,000 aged, blind and disabled ineligible beneficiaries, with an 8.3 percent misspending rate nationwide and large losses in California and New York.
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Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
AFDC
California
New York
Twiname
USDA mulls feed grain program to favor soybeans
The Agriculture Department edits the 1973 feed-grain plan with options to raise soybean plantings to as much as 52 million acres. The ASA, led by Harold Kuehn, cautions a 10 percent rise is the safe limit, predicting 1.45 billion bushels if met, up from 1.35 billion last year, stressing market risk from overproduction.
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Agriculture Department
USDA
Harold Kuehn
American Soybean Association
Memphis
Tenn
ASA
Kuehn
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Hey
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Ottawa, Kansas
Kansas
Hereford Assn
Garnett
Garett Sale Pavillion
W. W. O'Bryan
Hepler
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