World Gets New Close Look at Ugly Face of the Moon
Astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission share home time after a December flight ending with a Pacific splashdown. Anders Lovell and Borman describe lunar landscapes and earthrise images, noting vast loneliness and striking color contrasts captured from lunar orbit.
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Oklahoma
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U.S. Planes Aid Biafra Relief Effort
Eight U S transports loaned by the United States may feed an additional million people in famine threatened Biafra. The all-Swiss International Red Cross Committee will receive four planes and works to hire civilian pilots as crews.
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United States
Biafra
International Red Cross Committee
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America
Russians Concede U S Will Win Moon Race
Washington based UPI report cites Soviet spokesmen and analysts who virtually concede the United States will be first to land a man on the moon. Titov and Sedov emphasize unmanned and scientific lunar exploration, with a manned mission possible only after solving safety issues. Manchester real estate mogul Harrison seeks moon ownership rights for potential heirs.
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Soviet Union
Leonid L Sedov
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Boris N. Petrov
Soviet Council For International Cooperation
Moscow
Valery Bykovsky
Tass
Manchester, Eng
John Harrison
Manchester
Astronauts Named 1968 Time Men of the Year
Time magazine named Apollo astronauts Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders as the 1968 Men of the Year for their lunar mission. The award credits 300000 engineers and 20000 contractors while noting the three men achieved a historic 147 hour voyage. Lyndon B. Johnson was last year’s recipient.
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UPI
Time Magazine
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James Lovell
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Time
America
Lyndon B. Johnson
William C. Westmoreland
Shipping Line Ends New York Passenger Service
The SS Independence joins its sister SS Constitution in retirement as American Export Lines suspends all passenger ship service. Independence, previously laid up in Jacksonville, Florida, marks the line's final sailings while the Constitution was retired on August 31.
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US to Meet Cong New Year's Day on Prisoner Release
The U S command will send five representatives on New Year’s Day for a second meeting with the Viet Cong to secure the release of three American prisoners of war. A no-fire corridor will be set from the meeting site near Saigon to the Cambodian border to protect participants and prisoners. The Viet Cong had no authority to release them on the Christmas Day talk, and the prisoners’ status remains uncertain. The three soldiers are James W. Brigham, Thomas N. Jones, and Donald G. Smith.
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U.S
Armed Forces
Saigon
Alleis
Cambodia
2Nd Field Force Command
James W. Brigham
Ocala
Fila
Thomas N. Jones
Family Perish in Home Fire in Orland Park
Five members of the Biddle family died when a south suburban Orland Park eight room home burned. Marion Biddle 50 Georgianne 15 Matthew 9 Daniel 7 John Hurt grandfather were identified. Two other siblings Jean 18 severely burned and John 19 injured escaped. Thomas 14 uninjured. Mrs Noreen Biddle drove daughter Rennis 18 to a train station.
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Cook County
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Jean Biddle
Christ Community Hospital
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Noreen Biddle
Rennis
Indians storm Chinese embassy in New Delhi protest arrest
A crowd of 300 Indians and Tibetan refugees stormed the Communist Chinese embassy in New Delhi to protest the arrest by China of an Indian editor on the Nepal Tibet border. Police say 15 Tibetans who breached the compound were later released. led by M L Sondhi of the Jana Sangh.
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UPD
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Nepal- Tibet
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Jana Sang Party
Medi-Cal Fraud Probe Expanded
Sacramento reports that the state adds seven investigators to scrutinize alleged Medi-Cal fraud and abuse. The Medi Cal department previously employed two investigators.
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Sacramento
Medi-Cal Department
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