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...spoke to a workers' rally at Hilwan, outside Cairo. In Syria, the head of state, Dr. Noureddine Atassi, led the Damascus parade and shouted the battle cry against Israel: "Armed struggle is the only means to liberation!" Tiny Lebanon canceled the celebration of May Day because of its current political crisis. But in Yemen, the capital city of San'a witnessed a workers' procession in which women employed by a Chinese-built textile mill marched with the men for the first time in history...
...News, Martin Hayden, argues that most crimes are committed by "underprivileged, undereducated and deprived youngsters from the slum ghetto." Pointing that out, he contends, may persuade whites to support programs to help black youth and cause "reasonable black people to realize that there is a racial aspect to the current crime problem...
...Paul Haney, "the voice of Apollo." The NASA budget is down to $3.8 billion from its $5.9 billion 1966 peak. The army of skilled craftsmen, whom Wernher Von Braun calls 90% of NASA's investment, has dwindled from a high of 400,000 to half that number. At current attrition rates, the force will shrink...
...post-Apollo goals in space. Unless stimulating goals are enunciated, the team that made Apollo possible may begin to disintegrate for lack of a sufficiently compelling challenge. For purely technical reasons as well, time may be running out if the Administration is to maintain America's current lead in space. The last of the 15 first stages for the Saturn 5, NASA's journeyman booster for manned flight, will roll off assembly lines a year from June. By 1972 at the latest, all of them will be used up. Although NASA has been given funds for three additional...
...NASA would use rocket vehicles that are described as "lifting bodies." Some of them will have retractable "switchblade" wings and enough maneuverability for landings at airfields instead of in the ocean. Eventually, Administrator Paine also hopes to cut the cost of putting a pound into earth orbit from the current $500 to $50. To help achieve this breakthrough, NASA has three different rockets on its drawing boards: Tri-Maran (a reusable three-stage booster whose stages are mounted side by side instead of atop each other); Dixie Cup (with a low-cost, discardable, solid-fuel first stage...