Apollo 16 Heads Home With Lunar Rock Treasure
Apollo 16 prepares to depart lunar orbit and begin the return voyage to Earth. The crew will bring back 245 pounds of samples the scientists say may prove the moon suffered ancient volcanic activity. The third moon drive nearly derailed as mission control worried fatigue and time limits after a late Thursday landing.
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John W. Young
Charles M. Duke Jr
Thomas K. Mattingly
Casper
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Pacific Ocean
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Duke
Orion
Mattingly
Descartes Plateau
Tony England
Pete Franks
Stone Mountain
Cayley Plains
Alexandria Man Seriously Hurt in Crash
An Alexandria man, Essey Ralph Schwartz, 60, remains in serious condition at Winchester Memorial Hospital after a crash on Rt. 50 in Clarke County. His car crossed the median, struck the Shenandoah River bridge, bounced off the railing, then hit a tractor trailer driven by James Green of Richmond. The Schwartz vehicle was demolished and he was transported by the Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad.
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Winchester Memorial Hospital
Rt. 50
Clarke County
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Snyder
James Green
Richmond
Schwartz
Winchester
Valley Ave
John W. Marklin
Martinsburg
W.va
Marvin Lee Rogers
Inwood
Rogers
Charles Richard Lewis
Rt. 3
Harry Wilson Cline
Stephens City
Mr. Marklin
Carroll Hutzler
Mr. Cline
Four Wounded in Irish Sniping Attacks Across Belfast and Londonderry
Irish guerrillas of the IRA wounded four people in a wave of sniping attacks on security forces across Northern Ireland. In Londonderry a police truck was hit. a civilian was wounded. A British soldier was shot near a Catholic district and another soldier was wounded in Belfast. Seven masked gunmen abducted a shopkeeper in East Middletown, then set off a 50 pound gelignite blast at his store, wounding him in the leg before releasing him. Al's Front End Shop remained closed until May 2 due to illness.
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Irish Republican Army
Londonderry
Mothers march toward Washington to protest busing
A group of Pontiac mothers walking from Rawson West Virginia toward Washington D C to attend an anti-busing rally progresses through Virginia covering Rt 9 and moving toward Leesburg along Rt 7 led by Irene McCabe.
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Virginia
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Leesburg
Irene McCabe
Hank Leland
Air and Sea Battles Erupt in Vietnam Front
North Vietnamese forces smashed toward Kontum City driving South Vietnamese troops back to a new line near Vo Dinh on Highway 14. U S bombers faced surface to air missiles while a U S helicopter was shot down near Dak To. Nine Americans wounded and three Da Nang buildings damaged in a major rocket attack.
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Tan Canh
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22Nd Infantry Division
Dak To
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Kontum
United States
Hanoi
Thanh Hoa
da Nang
Dong Hoi
Tonkin Gulf
U.S. 7Th Fleet
South Vietnam
Hopefuls Make Last-Minute Appeals in Penn Mass Primaries
Democratic candidates race to sway voters on the eve of Tuesday polls in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. McGovern touts a Massachusetts lead and Pennsylvania blitz while Muskie relies on Shapp and Camiel backing with TV hits. Humphrey bets on a Pennsylvania win with heavy campaigning. Wallace and Jackson also on ballot.
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Philadelphia
Edmund S. Muskie
George McGovern
Hubert H. Humphrey
Pennsylvania
Humphrey
Muskie
Milton J. Shapp
Peter J. Camiel
McGovern
Massachusetts
South Dakota
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Chester
Lancaster
Harrisburg
Pittsburgh
Altoona
Allentown
Boston
Maine
Nixon
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Henry M. Jackson
Washington
Price Commission to Roll Back Prices and Refund Customers
The Price Commission will order hundreds of millions in price rollbacks and refunds in coming weeks as profit margins tighten. Chairman C Jackson Grayson Jr says the move, part of inflation control, targets major firms to restore base period prices.
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Price Commission
C. Jackson Grayson Jr
Grayson
Associated
Donald Rumsfeld
Cost of Living Council
Economic Club of
Detroit
Rumsfeld
Supreme Court Steps Out of Suit Against Auto Makers
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously to remove itself from a multistate antismog case against General Motors Ford Chrysler and American Motors. The decision lets lower courts handle nationwide pollution claims and slows efforts to require anti pollution equipment in up to 100 million cars built 1953 to 1969.
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Supreme Court
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
American Motors
Virginia Supreme Court Rules 15 Year Old Cannot Be Tried as Adult
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled that Eddie Wallace Lee Jr., then 15, may not be tried as an adult for the Bee Peabody High School shooting in Petersburg. His murder and malicious wounding case will go to Juvenile Court for a hearing. He was 14 at the time of the Sept. 30 incident, which killed one student and wounded two others.
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Richmond
Virginia Supreme Court
Petersburg
Eddie Wallace Lee Jr
Hastings Court
Lee
Bee Peabody High School
Weather arrives cooling trend in Virginia District
A cold front moved into Virginia bringing cloudy and rainy conditions and a cooling trend. The Richmond weather note hints at changing skies and lower temperatures ahead.
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Richmond
Virginia
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