Apollo Soyuz mission fuels space detente and unity
At Cape Canaveral and Baikonur preparations press toward the Apollo Soyuz link up. NASA and Soviet officials expect weather to cooperate despite daily storms, as Stafford and Leonov lead a diverse crew through proficiency runs and joint language practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson Space Center
Houston
Tex
Thomas P. Stafford
Cape
Stafford
Chester M. Lee
NASA
Baikonur
Ford
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
James Fletcher
National Aeronauics and Space Administration
Dobrynin
Fletcher
Cape Canaveral
Florida
Delate
Leanny
Brand
Richard W. Nixon
Alexei Kosydin
Russia
United States
Georgia T. Beregovoi
Leonov
Ford oil plan aims to end controls and raise price ceiling
President Ford proposed removing controls on old oil and setting a ceiling near 13.50 per barrel for domestic oil produced since 1973 while a new plan would curb imports with added fees. The move sparked criticism from Senator Jackson who called the policy corrupt, while GOP leaders backed the plan and urged Congress to act quickly amid a broader energy crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
Bents M. Jackson
D-Wash
Jackson
Hugh Scott
John J. Rhodes
Congress
Scott
Administration
Ron Nessen
Butterfield denies spying allegations in CBS interview
Butterfield rejects claims of a CIA spy motive at the White House. He accuses Fletcher Prouty of perjury and says he never met E. Howard Hunt or any CIA contact. Prouty cites a Washington PR firm with CIA ties as the possible link to Butterfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Force
Fletcher Prouty
Butterfield
CBS
60 Minutes
White House
Senate Watergate Committee
Fletcher Prouly
Rutterfield
CHS
Mike Wallace
Ter
CIA
E. Howard Hunt Jr
Min Prouty
Howard Hunt
Prouly
Hunt
Washington
Mullen & Co
Whitehouse
Indochina
Frouty
Mullen
CLA
Israel shells Lebanon and clashes escalate in border towns
Israeli bombs hit a Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon wounding 22 and killing four as rockets from southern Lebanon strike Nahariya wounding two women. Rabin told Kissinger of progress toward clarification and negotiation while Palestinians claim jet losses and a destroyed guerilla radio station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lebanon
Nahariya
Jerusalem
Yitzhak Rabin
Henry A. Kissinger
Palestine
Ein Helweh
Sidon
Beirut
Lebanese Defense Ministry
Mediterranean
Ham the chimp space pioneer still healthy at age eighteen
Washington AP reports Ham the chimpanzee, a 1961 suborbital space flight pioneer from the National Zoo, remains healthy at 18. He learned to press levers and handled weightlessness with few shocks, confirming that animals could perform tasks in space as humans might.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ham
National Zoo
Atlantic Ocean
Cape Canaveral
Luy
Zoo
Billy Hamlet
Ham the Chimp
Wirer
Also Mentioned on This Page
Vance D. Brand
Donald K. Slayton
Aleksay A. Leonov
Valeri N. Kubasov
Val
Sugiel Cosmnodrome
Associated Press
Seattle, Tacoma
Seattle, Wash
Upi
Tacoma
Seattle
Burien
Hox
Thee Mink
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!