Soyuz 9 advances Soviet space aims amid questions on station
AP reports Soyuz 9 moves the USSR toward a space station while American observers say a permanent station remains distant. They note the mission mainly clarifies medical, physiological, and hardware responses from long flights, data built on Gemini and Apollo experiences. Also DES hormone use in cattle fattening linked by some to lower beef quality, though officials and industry sources dispute this.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Soviet Union
Washington
United States
OAS Ministers to Meet on Latin American Kidnapings
Washington AP reports sharp differences expected as 13 day OAS foreign ministers meeting opens Thursday amid nine kidnapping attempts against diplomats in Latin America in the last 10 months. Argentina proposes self restraint in asylum grants for political prisoners to counter unrest.
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Washington
Organization of American States
Latin America
Argentina
Romulo calls for updating the UN charter at silver anniversary
Philippine Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, one of the nine surviving signers, urged revision of the United Nations charter during a news conference in San Francisco marking the body's 25th anniversary. He argued the charter lacks definitions for new forms of aggression such as propaganda and subversion.
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San Francisco
Carlos P. Romulo
U. N
Romulo
United Nation
AMA Defends Pill Warning Plan at FDA Clash
The AMA vows broad legal and legislative action against FDA plans for health warnings on contraceptive pill packages. FDA Commissioner Edwards defends using lay language warnings as patient protection. AMA delegates at their 119th annual convention approve a resolution condemning the FDA move as dangerous.
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Chicago
American Medical Association
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Charles C. Edwards
AMA
House of Delegates
House backs 120 C5 transport planes despite cost fears
A House Armed Services Committee report supports the Pentagon plan to complete a 120 aircraft order or achieve equivalent airlift with 81 C5s plus smaller companion planes. Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird had reduced the order to 81 due to rising costs amid congressional criticism.
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Washington
House
Armed Services Committee
Pentagon
Navy Awards 30 Destroyers Contract To Mississippi Yard
Rep. Louis C. Wyman charged the Navy is thumb ing its nose at Congress after Ingalls Shipbuilding Division Pascagoula Miss won the costliest contract for assembly line construction of 30 new destroyers. The award was announced as a Litton Industries unit.
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Washington
Navy
Mississippi
House of Representatives
Louis C. Wyman
R N. H
Ingalls Shipbuilding Division
Pascagoula
Miss
Ingalls
Litton Industries
Stock Market Falls On Penn Central Bankruptcy News
New York traders faced a sharp drop as Penn Central filed for bankruptcy for its railroad unit. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 18 points to 689.11, a 2.51 percent decline amid growing concern for other firms’ financial health.
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New York
Penn Central
Wall Street
Dow Jones
Bomb Blast Kills One At Ottawa Defense Dept Site
An explosion damaged a Defense Department building in downtown Ottawa on St. Jean Baptiste Day and killed one person. Initial reports describe a blast during a holiday period with authorities investigating the incident.
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Ottawa
Defense Department
St. Jean Baptiste Day
Quebec
Canada
Defense Communications Room
Jeanne St. Germain
Ottawa General Hospital
Russ McKee
Armed Forces
Jean Baptiste Day
Montreal
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
House of Commons
Dubcek Fired Again Amid Turbulent Prague Bid for Status
Prague Radio reports former Communist party chief Alexander Dubcek has been removed from his post as ambassador to Turkey by President Ludvik Svoboda. He will be reassigned but details are undisclosed. His party membership is suspended and a two day Central Committee meeting may expel him.
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Prague
Alexander Dubcek
Czechoslovakia
Prague Radio
Ludvik Svoboda
Communist Party
Turkey
Dubcek
Gustav Husak
Kermlin
Young Marine Cleared in 16 Vietnam Deaths Verdict
Pfc. Thomas R. Boyd, 19, of Evansville Indiana, was found innocent of unpremeditated murder in the deaths of 16 Vietnamese women and children after testifying he did not shoot them or enemy soldiers in Vietnam. He wept as the acquittal was announced.
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DA Nang
Vietnam
Pfc
Thomas R. Boyd
Evansville
Ind
Senate Debates Two Issues Amid Unusual Day
The Senate debates an education appropriations bill with three House riders aimed at desegregation while also debating a proposal to curb Indochina spending. The split-time plan mirrors a two-shift day as Republicans block a vote. In Vietnam coverage, Marines face murder charges related to the Son Thang village incident. Pfc. Michael Schwarz was convicted of premeditated murder and life imprisonment, with appeals.
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Washington
Senate
Boyd
da Nang
Pyt
Michael A. Schwarz
Weirton
W.va
Nixon Aims Bold U S Bid in SALT Talks With Soviets
President Nixon plans a concrete U S bid on an arms accord with the Soviet Union to cover both offensive missiles and defensive ABMs. Gerald C Smith will present the proposal at Vienna after talks in Helsinki and ahead of a possible limited agreement before summer recess.
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Washington
Nixon
U. S
Soviet Union
U.S
Gerald C. Smith
Vienna
Smith
Helsinki
Tration
Kremlin
Moscow
United States
Cambodian Troops Receive American Air Support
Cambodian military command announced American jet bombers attacked deep into Cambodia to aid ground forces. Reports said North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces were assembling east of Phnom Penh and fighting raged at Kompong Speu, 30 miles away. U S air strikes helped lift a siege at Kompong Thom while authorities cautioned on not detailing attack specifics.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
U. S
Saigon
Kompong Speu
Kompong Thom
Pentagon
United States
Maj
Am Rong
Skoun
Nixon
Kompong Som
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Senate Leader Scott Backs Faster Vietnam Troop Drawdown
Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania urged a quicker U S exit from Vietnam citing Cambodian campaign gains. He said action on a military sales bill, provoking weeks of Cambodia war powers debate, should be completed by early next week.
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Washington
Senate
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
South Vietnam
Nixon
Scott
Cambodia
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