World news
From AP reports
LONDON—People around the world reacted generally
with almost a ho-hum Wednesday on Apollo 12’s venture.
It seemed to indicate they now are taking moon voyages for
granted.
“Although the excitement is there again, I’m not so in
terested,” said a waiter in Mexico City. “After all, the first
time we didn’t know if it could be done, and afterwards we
did.”
This seemed to be the consensus in many countries where
just four months ago people went wild over the historic
Apollo 11 voyage to the moon.
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HELSINKI, Finland—The U.S. and Soviet delegations to
the nuclear arms talks partied at Helsinki’s fanciest night
club-restaurant Wednesday in an unprecedented goodwill
gesture.
But back in Moscow the commander of the Soviet missile
forces boasted that his country has the “most powerful nuc
lear warheads in the world.” He made no mention at all of
the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks, called SALT.
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WASHINGTON—U.S. combat deaths in Vietnam have
risen for the second straight week. But officials say the level
is still low enough to permit President Nixon to order addi
tional American troops withdrawn.
In his report to the nation on Nov. 3. Nixon said he is
basing his withdrawal decisions partially on “the reduction
of our casualties.”
Nixon also told the nation that “if the level of enemy ac
tivity significantly increases we might have to adjust our
timetable accordingly.”
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WASHINGTON—Sen. John Williams of Delaware came
out today against the Supreme Court nomination of Judge
Clement Haynsworth Jr., but three other previously uncom
mitted GOP senators said they will vote for Senate confirma
tion .
Supporters of the Haynsworth nomination had feared that
Williams’ position might have a pivotal effect in the closely
drawn battle, but for the moment at least Haynsworth con
tinued to gain strength.
An Associated Press survey now shows 44 senators for con
firmation and 41 against among those who have publicly
declared themselves.
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WASHINGTON — A bill to provide mandatory prison
terms for the use of guns in crimes, inspired by the murder
of a Marine, was passed by the Senate Wednesday.
It calls for prison terms of one- to 10 years for illegal use
of a gun by a first offender and two- to 25 years for repeaters.
Moon explorers add
comic note to work
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP)—Like two giddy children, the
new American moon explorers babbled and cavorted over the dusty
Oceans of Storms Wednesday on man’s second visit to a world without
life or laughter.
Earth got only a brief view of Charles Conrad Jr. and Alan L.
Bean before their television failed. There was little chance the
camera could be repaired. It was apparently burned out and blinded
by the harsh rays of the sun.
But both Conrad and Bean kept up a constant comic commentary
as they went through the serious business of exploring the moon
and setting up experiments.
They established the first nuclear power station on the moon, set
up a seismometer so sensitve it picked up their footsteps and will
listen for moon impacts after they’re gone, and other instruments
to measure what happens to gases released on the moon and the
strength of the solar wind that pervades the solar system.
It was a mixture of hard-headed thinking and gleeful exploration
that was the pattern of these two men on the moon.
“Hey,” Conrad exclaimed with boyish wonder. "I just threw some
'hing and it bounced up and must have gone 300 feet. The stuff
discoveries are made of.”
“Hey," Bean said, “quit playing and get some work done,” Conrad
only giggled back, "I could stay out here all day.”
That same playful explorer was the man who guided the moonship
Intrepid down to a perfect, deadeye landing, 20 feet from the edge
'f a crater in which lies the remains of an old unmanned moon
>robe. Surveyor 3, the object of their second moonwalk Thursday
morning.
So accurate was Conrad’s piloting that Surveyor was only some
<>00 feet away from the spot where Intrepid touched down at 1:54
a.m. EST.
They will blast off from the moon at 9:23 a.m. Thursday and link
ip with Yankee Clipper again at 1:02 p.m. the same day. They rocket
ack toward earth Friday arriving at their home planet Monday.
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Draft lottery passes Senate;
may take effect in January
WASHINGTON (A>)—The Sen
ate passed President Nixon’s draft
lottery bill Wednesday and sent it
to the White House. That means
the next men inducted may be
chosen under the new system.
Based on a national drawing of
birthdays, and designed ulti -
mately to concentrate the draft
on 19-year-olds, it will supplant
induction rules under which the
oldest eligible men are the first
summoned to military service.
The bill passed by voice vote
after a scant hour of sparsely at
tended debate.
Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.),
cast the only opposing vote, say
ing the measure does not ade
quately deal with the inequities of
selective service.
One year liability
Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss.),
chairman of the Armed Services
Committee, promised his panel
will open comprehensive draft
hearings by Feb. 15 in an effort
to fashion a general reform bill.
Sec. of Defense Melvin Laird
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said the next draft call will come
in January and the administration
will try to have the system in op
eration by then.
“We hope to have the new ran
dom selection in effect for the
next draftees,” he said.
When the new system is fully
effective, it will mean a single
year of draft liability for most
young Americans, instead of the
seven uncertain years they now
face.
Oldest men first
Nixon already has announced
he will designate young men in
their nineteenth year as the prime
group for induction.
While the program is being
phased in, however, all draft -
eligible men up to 26 years of
age will face equal liability to se
lection by lottery.
Under present law, the Presi
dent is empowered to designate
the prime age group, but once he
does so, the oldest men in that
group must be summoned first.
The bill the Senate passed re
peals that requirement, opening
the way for the lottery.
The lottery itself amounts to i
scrambling of birth dates.
Dates drawn
The dates of the year will be
drawn, and each date assigned a
number.
“If No. 1 is Nov. 15, all those
born on Nov. 15 would be in the
highest priority for call,” Stennis
explained. “If Nov. 20 were to
receive No. 365, all those born
on this day would be in the lowest
order for call.”
Another national d r a wing
would scramble the alphabet to
assign priorities among men born
on the same date.
A man deferred as a student
during his nineteenth year would
go into the peel when his defer
ment expired.
Stennis said each of the 4,100
local draft boards will be guided
by the induction sequence deter
mined in the national drawings.
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