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Apollo 14 is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific south of American Samoa nine days after its liftoff. If its mission is successful, NASA hopes it will rekindle dwindling interest in manned lunar exploration. Space officials feel that if it is a failure, it may well be the last such moon mission of the decade...
Genuine Values. In Western Samoa, after a quick change of planes in Pago Pago, the Pontiff was received like a high chieftain. He rode through groves of mango and breadfruit under 66 arches woven of wood fibers, flowers, vines and leaves. At the church of St. Anne at Leulumoega, a quiet, respectful crowd presented the Pope with a huge roast pig after he said Mass. Though only four hours long, the Samoan visit seemed to bear out the "Message to Asia" that the Pope had broadcast before leaving Manila. "The church cannot be foreign to any nation or people...
...seven years since, he has made good that promise by traveling farther and more often than all his predecessors combined: eight trips totaling 41,000 miles. His ninth trip, which began last week-a punishing, 28,000-mile, ten-day pilgrimage taking him as far as Australia and Samoa-was the longest thus far and, as it turned out, the most dangerous. In Manila, Paul VI came closer than any Pope in centuries to being assassinated...
...health of the Pope holds up, the heavy pace will continue: Western Samoa, via Pago Pago, on Sunday; Australia on Monday; Djakarta Thursday; Hong Kong Friday morning, and Colombo, Ceylon, Friday evening on the way back to Rome. What does he hope to accomplish in return for such a grueling schedule? "It will stimulate missionary activity and broaden understanding with other religions in the service of progress and peace," he said in his farewell speech in Rome. But more than ever before, various aspects of the Pope's traveling plans have been criticized by the press and even...
Next morning, having weighed the possibilities, the flight planners had a compromise answer. The Aquarius descent engine would fire just long enough to reduce the remaining flight time to 63 hours and drop the astronauts in the South Pacific about 600 miles southeast of Samoa. It was what engineers typically call a "trade-off"?not the fastest possible journey home, but one that would save fuel for later course corrections, not strain the remaining Aquarius oxygen, electricity and fuel supplies aboard, and set Odyssey down within easy range of the prime recovery ship Iwo Jima, already in the area...