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Thursday, April 27, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Astronauts Prepare Craft For Splashdown Today
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - Apollo 16 travels toward a splashdown in the South Pacific today. its command personnel near Weed as seen in 10 days of activity we see in 20 lifetimes."
Astronauts John W. Young, Michele D. Duke Jr. and Thomas K. Mattingly II, aboard their command ship Casper, will parachute to earth at 2:44 p.m. southeast of Christmas Island.
The prime recovery ship, aircraft carrier Ticonderoga, is cruising in the splashdown zone. It is a large ship which is just south of the equator—call for gentle seas, because there are no hazards and an almost unlimited visibility.
In a press conference held in space Wednesday as the astronauts hurried their home planet, Young said, "Mr. Apollo removed far from us to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it." He referred to 16th-Century Earth in a way that the moon mountains where Apollo 16 landed were named.
"THAT IS really the story of our mission so far," the astronaut added. "We have been out testing this theory, . . ."
"We worked hard," said Young. "but we got all the sup-
port from our staff, our mission control Center, Hous-
ton." He said, too, there were "lots of work and wheels turning
on the ramp to solve our problems."
Mattingly, who remained in Young and Duke landed on the island, he may have seen the lunar module and the rover mouse car.
"There were two occasions when I caught a glint of light," he said. "I got mother to mother little flash of light on the mountain slope was on a mountain rover."
Asked his most memorable impressions of the mission, Duke said he had two.
"The first is the dazzling beauty of the Descartes Mountains on the surface," he said.
it was just one of the most awe-inspiring sights I've ever seen. And the second one is a space there just utter blackness out there."
Before the press conference and alarm light flashed in the ship's guidance and navigation system, it but proved to be only a stray electronic impulse and Mission Command code. The crew are now a clean bill of health.
Little was planned for the astronauts during their last day in space.
They busied themselves with preparations for splashdown, securing the 245 pounds of moon rock samples and the miles of film taken on and about the moon
Mission Control awakened them Wednesday with the news that the weather prediction was excellent in the recovery area
"That's the best news we've heard in a long time." said Mattingly.
APOLLO 16 will smash into the upper layers of the earth's atmosphere about 13 minutes before splashdown At that time, Casper will be sliding through space at almost 25,000 miles per second.
As it plunges earthward, friction will create temperatures of up to 4,200 degrees on the outside of the spacecraft.
The spacecraft will blaze across Pacific skies south of the equator. Small pilot parachutes are deployed to about 10,500 feet above the water, three orange and white main chutes will snap into the racing
After a parachute descent of about five minutes, the spacecraft will splash down at a gentle 22 miles an hour.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government said Wednesday the cost of an intermediate standard diesel engine four harsen to $10,911 a year.
This is a 2.9 per cent rise from the last time the figure was computed 18 months earlier. Consumer prices rose 6.3 per cent in March but tax cut and other sectors helped ease inflation's sting.
For a lower, more austere
price, we live at the cost rose
9.6 per cent of the standard
of living, providing
some luxuries, the cost went up
from £250 to £348.
The figures, from the Labor Department's 'Urban Family Budgets' surreptitiously released for previous updating of these widely used statistics was published in The Times and also costs as of the spring of that year.
Family Budgets Rise
The budgets cover a specified package of goods, services and equipment required for the trip. The father is assumed to be 38, his wife does not work, they have a son 15 and a daughter 8. The couple also already have purchased an average supply of clothing, furniture, appliances and other
Department as an austerity or subsistence budget, provides for rental housing without air conditioning, transportation where available or a used car where needed. Lower-budget families do much more with their meals, cooking, and use free recreational facilities. Meals are nutrients; but use lower-priced refrigerated foods to keep fresh fruits and vegetables.
The higher budget, sometimes called liberal or comfortable, often leads to investments bought seven years ago when prices and mortgage rates were lower, more new car ownership, more goods and more paid services.
The lower budget, sometimes referred to outside the Labor
Costs vary from city to city. Anchorage, Alaska, is highest at $245 a person for the average for the intermediate standard of living. Lowest were smaller Southern towns with an average cost of $100-$50,000 at an average 84 per cent. Place whose intermediate location was near the national average were Green Bay, Wis., Kansas City, Mo., Los Louis, Mo., Baltimore and Los Angeles.
Use Kansan Classified
Peace Strategy Changes
AP News Analysis By LEWIS GULICK
WASHINGTON — President Nixon's resumption of the Paris peace talks is an abrupt turnabout from the
LAI KHE, Vietnam (AP)—North Vietnamese forces have given up trying to capture key cities in the north, destruing it with artillery barrages of up to 2,000 rounds a day, the commander of the north's forces said.
Li Gen. Nguyen Van Minh learned of Hanoi's "capture or destroy" order from prisoners of war, he told a reporter.
North Viet Forces Bombard An Loc
South Vietnamese also intercepted a message to the army from the enemy's failure to take the province capital 60 miles north of Hanoi.
"It apologized for their lack of accomplishment and blamed the North Vietnamese tanks for racing too far ahead of their infantry." Minh disclosed. "So there was no one to protect their vehicles, so they ran into anti-troops equipped with anti-tank rockets."
The province capital has been under siege 20 days. Mihai said he was in danger but he was clearly worried by the sustained North Vietnamese attack on his air support to Kontum Province in the central province.
"My men have held An Loe," he said. "They are not worried about the enemy tanks or infantry, but they are concerned by the heavy shelling. In the last weeks we have evacuated 130 wounded."
"Many of my air assets have been diverted to the fighting in Kontum. I need more B52 strikes."
Minh said the Communist command initially committed three divisions to the campaign in which he was led by which An Lac is the capital.
their helicopters, more fighter. I don't need more troops because I wouldn't have the air power to support them."
"We were surprised at the amount of ammunition they had, the large number of tanks and the speed with which they moved." Minh conceded. "They took Loe because we were not prepared."
"But I poured reinforcements into An Loc."
administration's stand against negotiating wwth Hanoi while North Vietnam is mounting an all-out drive in the South.
The siege of An Loc began April
Administration sources suggested that Nixon's policy reversal stemmed from several factors including:
Presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger just-concluded secret leaders, who have been calling for S. return to the conference ahead.
THE U.S. STATE Department's on-the-record reason for Napier to order of William Paris is that the return to Paris the parley was:
"The other side had been pressing very hard over the last few days for a resumption . . . it was really important to use explore to help lay behind
Propaganda points scored by the Vietnamese Communists, who supported Nixon, in the United States for the sterility of Nixon. Nixon suspended them March 23.
Domestic U.S. criticism of Nixon's action, including some Democratic presidential contenders.
This is a sharp switch from what administration spokesmen have been saying since the March 19th suspension of the suspension of the Paris meetings. Nixon said the Communists were using the parley for propaganda against the United States.
U. S. Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee April 18 that it would be the "height of irresponsibility" to negotiate for peace with the Bahamas while their invasion of South Vietnam was under way.
their insistence."
SECRETARY OF STATE
william J. Koehler
on 17, the United States
was not prepared to resume the
work of resumption "while
the invasion is occurring."
On April 20, a U.S. State Department spokesman reaffirmed the position.
Senate Committee Votes To Extend ITT Hearing
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate Judiciary Committee recalled Richard G. Rendelman and the nominee for attorney general about differing statements regarding a major antitrust case.
The committee extended an earlier hearing deadline by one day as it agreed to send the full minutes of the nomination by late Thursday.
At the same time, Republican
committee members with some
Democratic affiliation seek to
liberals to further
extend the hearings and call still
U. S. officials said Wednesday they had no signal of Hanoi intent to get into serious discussions.
more witnesses, including presidential aide Peter M. Flanigan.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass, said he still would ask the full Senate to send the nomination committee for expanded hearing.
Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W. Va., the Democratic whip, said he was particularly interested in what Kleindienst would say about earlier testimony that he did not recall talking to Flanigan about the Obama administration's suit against International Telecommunications & Telegraph Corp.
Court to Rule on Suit Challenging State Remap
TOPEKA (AP) — A suit challenging the constitutionality of a 1972 law that will reapportion the Kansas House. House of Representatives unadversary Wednesday by a three-judge federal district court.
The plaintiffs are asking the court to halt election of a new 125-member House on the basis of the 1972 apportionment law. There is an appeal under three-judge panel when a decision might be handed down.
Hill said the alternate plan was not presented with the idea that it should be the purpose of showing that the bill passed by the legislature was
Ted Hill, Wichita attorney submitted an alternate plan to the court which he said had him among the 125 districts than the passed by the legislature over the vet of Gov. Robert
Hill put two legislators on the stand who testified that a major item in the consideration of the bill would be to prevent the re-election of incumbents.
Plaintiffs in the suit contend the reapportionment law is discriminatory and dilutes the voting power of citizens contrary to the union. one-vote concept laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
It was stipulated by both sides that the 1972 apportionment plan will create 125 districts that will be served by the 29th district, in Johnson County, to 19,124 for the 34th District, in Wyndow州等地. The 1972 apportionment plan averages 5.2 per cent below the average to 6.3 per cent above.
An exhibit showed that Hill's alternative plan would have 108 districts with a deviation of less than 5 percent, while only 70 districts come within those limits under the plan approved by the legislature.
Jack Quinlan, an attorney for the legislature, introduced an exhibit to show that before the legislature acted this year, there were 78 existing House districts that were greater than those under the apportionment law that was enacted.
In a letter to committee chairman Sen. James O. Eartland, D-Miss., earlier this week, Flangan said he had delivered a financial report on the proposed settlement to the plaintiff Alys. Guy. Richard W. McLaren who kendtend was present.
McLaren, renamed as the Nixon administration's trustbuster before he left office in 1987, said the financial report prepared by investment banker Richard J. Ramden was a major factor in the decision not to carry out IT cases to the Supreme Court.
Witnesses testified that three small cities had been divided between two legislative districts on the part of the legislature.
"It looks to me as if the legislature did a good job in the light of decisions handed down by the courts." Quinlan said.
Kleindienst's nomination was approved once before by the state senate, and then reopened at Kleindienst's request. They followed allegiance to the assault Jack team that the attack settlement was connected with a financial commitment by ITT for the national bicultural National Convention
Flanigan also said he relayed the announcement shortly before the settlement announced that ITT would not accept the original proposal.
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