Apollo 16 astronauts prepare to descend for Descartes Mountains exploration
John W. Young and Charles M. Duke Jr. detached Orion from Casper and readied a descent to the Descartes volcanic region on the moon. Mission Control urged potassium intake, while Mattingly remains in lunar orbit guiding a $10 million camera array.
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Howard Benedict
AP Aerospace Winter Space Center
Houston
Orion
John W. Young
Charles M. Duke Jr
Mission Control
Don Peterson
Descartes Mountains
Thomas K. Mattingly II
Young
Duke
Descartes
Earth
Mattingly
Lunar
Moon
Casper
Apollo 16 Touchdown at Cayley Plains Landing Site
The chart shows Apollo 16 landing in the Cayley Plains area north of Descartes Crater. The descent was scheduled for 3 41 p m Eastern Standard Time today.
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Descartes Crater
Cayley Plains
Officials plan meeting on Title I complaint in Roswell
Washington officials will meet Roswell Chicanos next week to discuss an administrative Title I complaint filed Feb 25 against the Roswell Independent School District. The action, backed by the Title I Parent Advisory Committee and Roswell Chicano Welfare Rights Organization, is framed as a suit seeking more control over the federally funded program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Fenley
Washington D.C
Roswell
Death of Dale J Bellamah who built major NM corporate complex
Dale J Bellamah 57 son of Lebanese immigrants who founded a large NM corporate group died of a heart attack at home. The Bellamah Corp. heads 18 subsidiaries with interests in housing land development shopping centers and financial institutions across New Mexico Colorado and Chicago. Survivors include brother Anise Bellamah of Roswell and his wife Jeanne who died two years earlier. The article lists plaintiffs and defendants in a Roswell Title I dispute involving several officials and school boards seeking investigations audits and reimbursements for alleged Title I misappropriations between 1965 and 1972. The group seeks removal of Title Director Robert Maxwell and his replacement by a Chicano.
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Albuquerque
Dale J. Bellamah
New Mexico
Dale J. Bellamah Corp
Colorado
Chicago
Anise Bellamah
Roswell
Jeanne
Concha Lopez
Elisa Shanks
Ralph Melendez
Patsie Morales
Jessie Sedillo
Molly Nunez Anaya
Chicano Welfare Rights Organization
The
Chicano Youth Association
Associated Mexican-American Students of Eastern New Mexico University
State of New Mexico
PAC
Dream Comes True Denise Meets Elvis in Albuquerque
An eight year old Santa Fe girl with terminal cancer met Elvis Presley backstage during a Presley concert in Albuquerque. Elvis spoke to her and dedicated You Gave Me a Mountain This Time to Denise before continuing the show. Her family had arranged tickets to a Houston concert earlier, but her illness worsened before they could go.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Santa Fe
Elvis Presley
Denise
Elvis
Mountain
Truddi Sanchez
Presley
Houston
M.D. Anderson Medical Center
Democrats condemn bombing and invasion in Indochina
House Democrats condemn renewed U S bombing of North Vietnam and Hanoi invasion of the South. They order action within 30 days on a war deadline and pass two concise condemnations by wide margins. White House says Nixon to outline troop withdrawal by May 1.
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George McGovern
D-S.d
Columbus
Ohio
America
North Vietnam
Hanoi
U.S
Jim Adams
Associated Press
Washington
House
Democrats Today
South
Democratic Caucus
Hanoi-Haiphong
House Foreign Affairs Committee
South Vietnam
Thomas P. O’neill Jr
Massachusetts
Sam Gibbons
D-Fla
Roswell Weather Improves With Cooler Trend
Partly cloudy and cooler day and night with moderate winds and a 20 percent chance of a brief shower. Friday remains partly cloudy and mild with highs near 73 and 70 for tomorrow, low around 40 tonight.
Roswell Youth Dies After Bicycle Car Crash
A 17 year old Roswell student Ricky Brown died after a bicycle he rode was struck by a car driven by Joyce B. Ramsey. The accident occurred Tuesday night on North Main Street as both vehicles traveled north. Brown sustained severe head injuries and died Wednesday night at ENMMC. No citations had been issued.
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Roswell
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
Ricky Brown
Kenneth Deeter
E. McGaffey
Joyce B. Ramsey
North Main Street
Main Street
Brown
Roswell High School
E. Ballard
Judge to Deliberate on NM Primary Ballot Names
US Supreme Court Justice Byron White will decide today whether to order adding all declared New Mexico primary candidates to the June 6 ballot. The issue centers on a 6 percent filing fee for salaried offices and related court orders, with state and federal rulings clashing over ballot inclusion.
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Santa FE
Supreme Court
Byron White
New Mexico
David Norvell
10Th Circuit Court
White
New Mexico Supreme Court
U.S. District Court For
U.S. Senate
Betty Fiorina
State Court
State Supreme Court
Norvell
U.S. Supreme Court
Texas
U.S. District Court
Fiorina
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Descartes Plateau
Treasury
John Connally
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Connally
Robert Maxwell
Dream Comes True
Indochina
White House
Nixon
Roswell and Vicinity
Patrick O’hearn
University of New Mexico
Terry Brown
Robert R. Young
Arlene Cinelli
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