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There was very little that Laos' politically astute Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, could do about last week's events. Largely as a morale-boosting gesture, he declared a state of emergency. He also issued a pro-forma demand that all foreign troops be withdrawn from Laotian soil-while taking care to blame Hanoi for having pioneered the "illegal route of access and infiltration known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail" years ago. So as not to trigger a Communist stampede into western Laos-an event that would surely shatter Souvanna's already fragile relations with powerful Laotian...
...Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., second man on the moon, tantalized a crowd of almost 300 last night with pictures and descriptions of "jelly-like glass objects," lunar soil, an unedited film of the moon-surface landing of the Apollo 14 lunar module, and a taste of what it was like to be there...
Four Americans had already trod on lunar soil, and the TV picture-the ghostly figure on the ladder, the sharp contrast between the black sky and the sun-drenched land-was strikingly familiar. Yet, for millions of viewers around the world, seeing a fellow man walking on the distant moon was still a wondrous experience. It was a dramatic reminder of what man, at his technological best, can achieve...
...Shepard and Mitchell teamed up for the most ambitious program of lunar exploration ever undertaken. For nearly ten hours, the fifth and sixth human visitors to the moon crisscrossed their Fra Mauro landing site, set up a $25 million package of scientific instruments, collected 108 lbs. of rocks and soil, and ventured more than half a mile from their ship up the 400-ft.-high walls of a crater...
...descend into the crater itself, they will conduct a kind of rock festival on its rim: they will chip stone from large boulders and roll some smaller boulders down the crater's side (the tracks will give earthbound scientists an indication of the mechanical characteristics of lunar soil). At the end of three hours, if all has gone well, the astronauts will be allowed to take a roundabout route home, including further sampling stops at nearby Weird Crater, which was named for its unusual shape, possibly the result of three or more overlapping meteorite impacts...