Mars Mars Mars launch fails dooming historic voyage
A Centaur rocket carrying the first of two Mars satellites tumbled out of control minutes after liftoff from Cape Kennedy. The Mariner payload disappeared in flames as engineers assessed the cause, delaying the Mars dual mission and risking the June 6 launch window. An identical second Atlas Centaur and a twin Mariner stood by for a May 18 flight as insurance against failure.
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UPI
America
Red Planet
Mariner
Earth
Space Agency
Mars
AL Rossiter Jr
Center
Control Center
United States
Viking
Moon
Soviet Union
Venus
Mystery mission for eight Soviet Cosmos satellites
Eight new Cosmos satellites launched together into a high earth orbit in secrecy. Tass announced they carry scientific instruments for ongoing space research, closely mirroring a prior eight craft mission. No further details on their purpose were given.
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Moscow
Tass
Cosmos
Dollar crisis sparks European debate in Brussels
European finance ministers debated ways to resolve the dollar crisis with Volatile exchange rates. West Germany urged market driven price shifts while France warned floating rates could raise values of Common Market currencies and hurt growth under existing limits.
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Brussels
Belgium
U.S
Karl Schiller
West Germany
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
d'Estaing
United States
German mark crisis sparks emergency talks among EC ministers
In a late afternoon session the finance ministers of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and other central bankers met to seek a single policy amid currency strains. West Germany halted dollar support as billions flowed in seeking a higher mark, with Schiller noting many compromises but no decision.
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West Germany
Schiller
Common Market
France
Italy
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Walter Scheel
Social Democratic Party
United States
Fifteen Eagles Found Dead West of Casper
Fifteen eagles ending up dead in a canyon ten miles west of Casper prompt an Interior Department probe. Caspers Marie Audubon Society president Joe T Green says preliminary checks suggest unnatural causes and speculates bait poison. Remains sent to Laurel Maryland lab for autopsy. about 100 nesting golden eagles remain in Wyoming.
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Casper
Marie Audubon Society
Joe T. Green
Green
The
Audubon Society
Wyoming
U.S. Department of the Interior
Laurel
Federal Laboratory
Weather Outlook Across Regions Today
Mild conditions with partly cloudy northeast and mostly sunny areas elsewhere. Highs Ro upper 70s near Lake Erie to low 70s by the Ohio River. Tonight lows in the 40s. Tomorrow fair northeast, increasing clouds elsewhere, showers likely southwest in the afternoon. Highs mid 60s to mid 70s.
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Lake Erie
Ohio River
Pollution on Black River Prompts Sierra Club Action
A courtesy canoe trip along the Black River reveals polluted banks with oil and sewage spoiling scenery. Al McClelland of Sheffield Lake leads the Northeast Ohio Sierra Club, which monitors industrial output and pushes for environmental reform and citizen suits while urging legislative solutions to curb pollution. The piece notes federal probes into water pollution as it follows toward Page 3.
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al McClelland
Sheffield Lake
McClelland
Northeast Ohio
The
Sierra Club
Cleveland
Cuyahoga
Grand
Chagrin
McClelland’s
U.S. Justice Department
U.S. Steel
Natural Science Museum
Anita Schrodt
Turks to Talk With Peking to Open Diplomatic Talks
Turkey and Communist China agreed to begin negotiations toward diplomatic relations with ambassadors to France and Peking to lead talks in Paris and Beijing. The Turkish Foreign Ministry announced and urged a pace to normalize relations.
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Ankara
UPI
Turkey
China
Turkish Foreign Ministry
France
Paris
Peking
27 Years Of Mother’s Day Roses Remembered In California
In Redwood City California a dozen sweetheart roses arrive each Mother’s Day for Mrs May Robinson for the 27th year. An anonymous donor provides the flowers in memory of her son Bernard killed in 1943 as a Navy torpedo bomber gunner at Guadalcanal. The donor remains unnamed, and the origin of deliveries varies from Oakland to occasional shipments by air. Mrs Robinson, 72 and blind since shortly after his death, believes the roses come from a survivor in her son’s World War II unit who visited after the war.
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Redwood City
Calif
UPI
May Robinson
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