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...shaped docking module linking the two spacecraft, Stafford and his crewmate Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton went through an elaborate checklist as they prepared to open the safelike docking door separating them from the Soyuz crewmen. At times the mission controllers in Houston had to remind the astronauts not to obstruct the view of the cameras ("Could you move to the left or right, please...
...contrast to the jaunty Stans, a subdued and sorrowful LaRue last week learned the penalty he must pay for conspiring to obstruct justice in the Watergate coverup. The mild-mannered Mississippi oil heir had admitted taking part in the payoffs to the burglars and had testified for the Government in the trial that led to the convictions of H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Robert Mardian and Mitchell. LaRue, a former aide to Mitchell at Nixon's re-election committee, was sentenced by Federal Judge John J. Sirica to six months in jail...
...Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's visit to Washington next summer. On Geneva, however, the two could agree only that the conference should reconvene "at an early date." In the involved semantics of diplomacy, Kissinger's aides insisted, it signaled that the Soviets were not likely to obstruct the next round of negotiations...
However, the support of the coastal states is crucial: they could obstruct the leasing program, for example, by refusing to allow new storage tanks or refineries to be built onshore. Conceivably, the states, not the U.S., might even own the offshore oil. In a case that goes before the Supreme Court this week. Maine argues that coastal states control waters not only out to the three-mile limit, but beyond it as well. This is just one of many points of dispute; the major problems created by a massive leasing program fall into three main categories...
...council authorized the Cambridge City Solicitor to confer with Judge Frank J. Murray of Federal District Court in Boston to look into "allegations of legal delays and dilatory tactics which could be employed to obstruct the construction of the Kennedy Library complex" at the site across from Eliot House on Boylston...