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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1969
Page
6
After four days of communal rioting in Kuala Lumpur Malaysians in some areas left homes to stock up on food while the hardest hit neighborhoods remained under curfew. Police and military forces were ordered to shoot on sight and foreign news media curfew passes were confiscated as operations continue.
Chicago Teachers Union voted 10,944 to 5,438 to strike starting Thursday over pay and aid. President John Desmond cited disgust with the system and said talks with the board are still possible. Picket lines planned at 622 Chicago public schools as mediation offered by Mayor Daley looms.
Apollo 10 astronauts Stafford Young and Cernan relax before launch at Cape Kennedy as a Saturn V rocket powers them toward a 237 000 mile voyage to lunar orbit. A suspected fuel leak caused earlier concern, traced to a loose electrical connection. They plan a 24 day mission to test maneuvers for the July lunar landing and dock with the lunar module in orbit.
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