University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 3, 1970
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Budget Cutback Forces Slice NASA Cuts 2 Planned Moon Landings
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The space agency, going against the recommendation of the nation's top scientists, announced Wednesday it was eliminating two of the planned Apollo moon landings because of reductions in its budget.
Elimination of the two Apollo flights left the space agency with just four more lunar landings. Paine said these will be flown at approximately six month intervals starting in January and continuing through 1972.
Dr. Thomas O. Paine, outgoing administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), also said the budget cut would mean an extra 900 civil service employees and 2,100 space contractor personnel will lose their jobs this year.
He said the Skylab program to build the nation's first embryonic space station and visit it three times in orbit remained unchanged. The Skylab missions
will last through June, 1973.
"Beyond that, our operations will be at a standstill until we come to the space shuttle and space station programs, hopefully around 1976," said Dale Myers, head of the space agency's Manned Space Flight Program.
Myers said the nation's astronauts, many of whom had little prospect of ever getting into space even before this latest cutback, were "very unhappy" about the moon mission cancellations.
Other officials said there could be several astronaut resignations in the near future as a result of the new cutback in the number of flights.
Paine said the latest rescheduled was brought about by congressional reduction of $142.2 million in the $3.333 billion space budget requested by President Nixon. He said of this amount $42.1 million had to come from the Apollo program.
"This reduction will be
DETROIT (UPI) — With the choice narrowed to General Motors and Chrysler, the United Auto Workers International Executive Board (IEB) met Wednesday to select a strike target for a new wage contract.
Car Union, Companies Both Firm in Positions As Strike Date Nears
Ford Motor Co., which underwent a seven week strike in 1967, was exempted from being the target this year by UAW President Leonard Woodcock.
The IEB scheduled a target picking meeting immediately after the union councils of all three companies met and unanimously rejected an initial contract offer by the companies. Union officials scorned the company proposals as not meeting a single demand they had made. Woodcock branded them as "the worst they've given us in 20 years."
Woodcock, who is also co-director of the union's General Motors Department, addressed the GM council delegates and informed them that Ford was being exempted as a possible strike target because Ford workers bore the brunt of the strike in 1967.
Irving Bluestone, co-director of the GM Department, said he would recommend that the IEB pick the world's largest manufacturing corporation, General Motors.
The UAW has a $120 million strike fund which would last about five weeks in a strike against GM. It would probably last twice as long against Chrysler.
The contracts at all the "Big Three" companies expire Sept. 14.
Gov. Maddox Blasts Jury
ATLANTA (UPI)—Incensed at the indictment of two Augusta police officers by a federal grand jury, Gov. Lester Maddox Wednesday fired off a letter to President Nixon accusing the federal government of favoring "riots, looters and burners."
Maddox said the two police officers, indicted on charges growing out of the shooting of Negroes during the Augusta riots last May, should instead have been "commended."
"Rioters, looters, snipers and dynamiters ought to be shot on sight." Maddox declared in a news conference. He said that police officers who are sent into a riot situation ought to be allowed to use "cannons" if necessary to blast snipers out of buildings.
That leaves both sides 12 days of intensive bargaining down to the strike deadline.
Woodcock has made it plain that if there is no contract agreed to by the deadline there will be a strike.
The initial company offers by the automakers provided for wage raises from 26 to 48 cents an hour in the first year.
Before making the decision to do this, Paine requested recommendations on the future of the moon program from the National Academy of Science's Space Science Board and from the NASA Lunar and Planetary Mission Board.
achieved by cancelling the Apollo 15 and Apollo 19 missions, redesignating the remaining Apollo flights, 14 through 17, and a more rapid phase down in manpower levels at all major Apollo facilities," he said.
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