Apollo 9 Night Sleep Plan Raises Watch Concerns
Space Center Houston AP says Apollo 9 crew must sleep simultaneously for a 16 hour workday during the February 28 launch. If one sleeps alone to wake others, controllers fear a horror scenario and may slash flight plans to keep all hands on duty. Astronauts James McDivitt David Scott Russell Schweickart will pilot the earth orbit mission aiming for a possible summer moon landing with a complex rendezvous.
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Kranz
earth
James McDivitt
David Scott
Russell Schweickart
United States
Russell L. Schweickart
David R. Scott
James A. McDivitt
NASA
Plastic curtain to shield California beaches from oil slick
Union Oil planned to lower a plastic sea curtain three feet below the surface to contain a 21,000 gallon daily oil leak off Santa Barbara. Federal officials halted most chemical spraying of Corexit due to hazards to marine life while conservations groups warned of impacts on lobsters abalone and grebes. A Torrance firm noted success of the curtain in Puerto Rico in 1968 and aimed to deploy 1000 feet shoreward by day’s end.
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SANTA BARBARA
Calif
UPI
Union Oil Co
California
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration
six mile
Pacific
Kepner Plastics
Torrance
Puerto Rico
Peas You'll five a lot longer if you don't drink
A quippy line warns that abstaining from alcohol smoking and late nights makes time feel longer and life seem brighter. The fragment suggests a playful healthful nudge with a rhyme style.
Oil slick spurs Senate hearings on pollution response
A California oil spill prompts Senate subcommittee hearings led by Sen. Muskie on a bill to regulate vessel discharges, enforce federal water standards, and streamline pollution controls. Witnesses include API, conservationists, and water pollution administrators, with industry groups also testifying.
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WASHINGTON
California
Senate
Sen
Edmund
Muskie
DMaine
American Petroleum Institute
Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Centre
Edison Electric Institute
Manufacturing Chemists Association
American Iron and Steel Institute
National Coal Policy Conference
Iraq may hold new spy trials Paul Bail linked to Israeli network
An Iraqi official said trials for Paul Bail, the American oil worker from Conneautville, Pa., could begin soon. Bail faces possible charges over alleged Israeli spy network ties and a suspicious shortwave transmitter found at his home. Iraq may show leniency if evidence is scarce. otherwise Bail would be sent to trial. The stance marks a shift from earlier statements. Concurrently in Washington, Nixon and the National Security Council discussed Middle East diplomacy amid efforts toward a four-power framework involving the United States, Soviet Union, France, and Britain.
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United Press International
Iraq
Paul T. Bail
Abdullah Salloum Samarrai
Iraqi Petroleum Co
Conneautville
Samarrai
Cairo
Baghdad
U.S
WASHINGTON
Nixon
National Security Council
Middle East
White House
Recreation programs resume under participant fee system
Elyria Park and Recreation Board restarts most programs this week under a pay when you play plan. Charles R. Hoagland says the modest fees will fund overtime for recreation staff and stabilize finances, with attendance affecting future viability. Adult, Friday night youths, Saturday programs at the Recreation Center return, as do Small Fry and Middie basketball leagues.
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Elyria Park and Recreation Board
Charles R. Hoagland
Hoagland
British minister says NATO would use nuclear weapons if invaded
In Munich Denis Healy warned NATO could deploy nuclear arms in a Soviet invasion scenario as Warsaw Pact conventional forces outpace NATO. Healy argued the nuclear deterrent has proven effective and noted the U.S. maintains 700 warheads in Europe while Britain and West Germany craft initial use doctrine for tactical cases.
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MUNICH
West Germany
UPI
Denis W. Healy
NATO
Western
Europe
Healy
Britain
U.S
Czechoslovak
South Vietnam
Weather Outlook Cloudy with rain and snow likely today
Weather forecast shows rain and possible snow today with little temperature change. Rain expected by afternoon, highs around 24 degrees, ending tonight. Tomorrow remains cloudy with scattered snow flurries and colder conditions.
Amnesty vote endorses Chicago sit-in protesters
About 1,000 uncommitted students and faculty endorsed unconditional amnesty for protesters occupying the University of Chicago administration building. Admin leaders said they would consider the amnesty as Cook County deputies prepared potential action to end the three day sit‑in.
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TONY FULLER
CHICAGO
UPI
University of Chicago
Warne Booth
Cook
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Gerhard Schroeder
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