On-Target Astronauts Walk Moon
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -Two American astronauts made a bull’s-eye landing on the moon today, raising their nation’s flag and exploring its btyck, powdery Btu;fa<?e for about four / hours. /TMf i
Before returning safely to their lunar. ferry Intrepid,, they set up five scientific instruments powered by the first nuclear generator on the moon. It was man’s second quest for knowledge oat; that alien soil.
The moon walk was spoiled for earthlings when a camera transmitting the first color television pictures from the 1 moon failed after 45 minutes.
Experts at the Manned Spacecraft Center here said it appeared tl\e camera was aeddentally pointed at The1 sun burning me sensitive image tube.
Charles (Pete) Conrad Jr. climbed back into the cabin at 10:28 a.m. EST after being ori' the surface 3 hours 44 minutes.
Alan L. Bean, ;his.companion on tills voyage, of discovery, had reentered at/ 10.15 a.m., after an even three hours outside.
“We won’t have any trouble sleeping tonight,’’ Conrad reported.
These third and fourth humans to trod the moon were in good humor and wise-cracked often as they explored the cratered world around them. Conrad’s' cackling became a familiar sound. PERFECT LANDING
They steered their lunar ferry Intrepid to a perfect landing just 20 feet from the edge- of their target crater at 4*54:29 a.m. Just COO feet away rests an un-
manned Surveyor spacecraft that soft-landed on the slope of the crater 214 1 years ago.
They hope to walk to the Surveyor , and retrieve parts of it during a second outside excursion scheduled (6 start at 12:32 a.m. tomorrow. They also hope to have the television camera repaired in time for the second walk. Experts on the * ground were working oh a solution.
The nuclear generator worked perfectly, and the instruments began sending data to earth as soon as the unit was turned on.
After collecting a few rock samples, raising the flag and deploying the nuclear-powered instruments, Conrad and Bean climbed back into Intrepid’s cabin to rest for the second excursion tomorrow.
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Before returning to the cabin they brushed off layers of the dark powder that clung to them. They said it was thicker than that found by the Apollo 11 astronauts in July.	v'
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The moon walkers originally were to have stayed outside about 314 hours. With their oxygen supply holding well, Mission Control told therp to remain out an extra half ah hour and instructed them to collect samples from the rim of a nearby crater.
Conrad and Bean reported the dust in the Ocean of Storms was thicker and blacker than that in the Sea of Tranquillity where the first moon explorers landed in July.
Commander Conrad’s first words as he
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placed his 13-inch boot in the soil wets: “That may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me.” ,
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'He/- referred [jokingly to Nell Armstrong’s first words last July when he became the first man to step on the moon: “That’s one’small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
The third member of the expedition, Richard F. Gordon Jr., orbited some 65 miles overhead, awaiting the return of his Companions tomorrow after they complete 31)4 hours on the surface.
STRANGE MOUND They were overjoyed at the landing spot, as they wondered at a variety of geological formations surrounding them.	f
The commander noted a strange-Iooking mound, and commented excitedly: “I’ve got to photograph this
thing, i can’t imagine what it ip. There’s this big mound sticking up about 300 feet at the foot of a shallow crater on the right-hand edge of the head crater, This is fantastic.”
He later reported it looked like a small volcanic formation.
Twice they used a hammer to solve minor* problems.
When Bean had trouble driving a tube into the' ground to collect a soil sample from beneath the surface, he pounded it with « hammer.
Later, a hammer was used to remove a canister containing the radioactive element, Plutorjium-238, from a protective cask.
If the canister had not come free, one of the major goals of the flight would have failed. Without the nuclear generator, the five scientific instruments wotdd not work,
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Senate War Critics Decry Pullout Pace
WASHINGTON (AP) - Several yar critics on the Senate' Foreign Relations Committee say the Nixon administration Is on a withdrawal course from Vietnam, but the rate is too slow.
The senators, who gave their views after a closed meeting yesterday with Secretary of State William P. Rogers, had a similar session Scheduled today with Defense Secretary Melvin R, Laird. * * *
Sens. J. W. Fulbright, D-Ark.; Frank Church, D-Idaho, and Albert Gore, D-Tenn., agreed after talking with Rogers that the withdrawal course is irreversible. They complained, however, the policy may involve leaving up to 250,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam for an indefinite period.
WOULDN’T GO FURTHER
Committee Chairman Fulbright said Rogers rejected repeated demands by members for further details on President Nixon’s withdrawal plans and the secret timetable for turning the war over to the South Vietnamese.
Fulbright said the committee would
decide after today’s meeting with Laird whether to push ahead with public hearings on Vietnam.
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Rogers told the committee the United States has had “numerous diplomatic contacts” with North Vietnam, some since the September death of Ho Chi Minh, but that “it would be wrong to suggest that they have indicated any progress.”
While he hopes for a positive response to Nixon’s speech, the secretary added, _!lwe see no immediate prospect for success in the negotiations.”
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Gore, expressing encouragement about tjie secret contacts, said the division between the committee and the administration is “on how to end the war. We have at least come that far.”
Church said he sees “some encouragement from the fact that the general direction of our policy is now out of Vietnam,” but added he fears the administration plans to keep up to 250,000 men in Vietnam “for an indefinite number of years.”,
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THE EXACT SENTIMENTS—A four-letter word seems most appropriate after a two-day-long drizzle turned into a slushy snowstorm this morning in the Pontiac area. A total of one inch is expected through tonight.
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Sen. Williams Will Vote No on Haynsworth
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. John J. Williams; R-Del., dealt a blow today to administration hopes for confirmation of the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr., by lining up with the opposition.
With a Senate vote due Friday, Haynsworth supporters had been buoyed by earlier developments.
Williams told the Senate that “one can discern a pattern which indicates that Judge Haynsworth is insensitive to the expected requirements of judicial ethics, especially the rule that requires judges to separate from active business connections and to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.”
Supporters of Haynsworth’s nomination had been hoping that Williams would vote for confirmation, and some had said privately that' if he decided against them, it would be a severe—and possibly fatal—blow.
Announcements yesterday by two freshman senators brightened the outlook for the Haynsworth backers.
The Senate’s newest member, Republican Ralph T. Smith of Illinois, said he had changed his mind and will support Haynsworth. Sen. Mike Gravel, D-Alaska; said he too will vote for confirmation.
This came on the heels of word Monday from Sens. Winston L. Prouty, R-Vt., and William B. Spong, D-Va., that they would vote for Haynsworth.
MORE EXPECTED
Sen. Gordon Allott of Colorado, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, said “the way. things are going”' he expects more announcements backing Haynsworth before “Friday’s! p.mrvote.—
Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield obtained agreement on the timing of the vote after Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., a leader of the opposition, withdrew a proposal for a showdown Thursday.
Williams’ decision to vote against confirmation balanced an Associated Press survey with 41 senators supporting the nomination and 41 against. The other 18 remain publicly uncommitted.
HEADING FOR MOON—This series of pictures—taken from a telecast—shows the Apollo 12 lunar module Intrepid as is shown soon after it heads for man’s second landing on the moon. The Intrepid other photos show if
the undocking maneuver (left) and the getting closer to the lunar surface.
Draft Lottery Plan Gets Senates OK
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WASHINGTON The Senate gave final congressional approval today to President Nixon’s draft lottery bill.
The measure was rushed to the floor and passed by voice vote after a perfunctory debate. It had already been passed by the House and now will go to Nixon for his signature.
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The measure will pave the way for selection of 19-year-olds first, exposing each eligible man to the draft for only one year. At present, a man can be exposed to the draft for as long as six yews.
Chairman John C. Stennis, D-Miss., of the Senate Armed Services Committee promised senators seeking broader draft reforms that his committee would begin hearings before Feb. 15 on more comprehensive proposals. But he could not promise such a bill would pass.
DEMAND A BARRIER -Demaada-by -seme senators,-notably Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ,_H-Mass., for broader changes in draft law than simply removing the ban on a lottery, had threatened to block action on any Change at all.
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Kennedy agreed several days ago not to press for amendments on the flow provided that leaders would! give assurance that hearings would be held
next year on more extensive draft reform.
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Today the debate was brief, the attendance sparse, and the only opposition vote cast by Sen. Mike Mansfield-D.-Mont., the Democratic leader.
* Mansfield said he considers the draft system.inequitable, and does not think the shift to random selection, Un adequate remedy. ■
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The initial reform step dealt with only one point in the current draft law: a three-year-old provision barring random selection of men for induction.
With repeal of that ban, the administration can shift to a lottery based sys-tern, probably on Feb. 1. As part of that change, the period of prime draft liability for young Americans is to be reduced to a single% year: the year following a youth’s 19th birthday, or the year after the expiration of his college deferment.
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WASHINGTON (J) — A lawyer’s battle with New York tax collectors over a speck of backyard land on Staten Island was transformed today in the Supreme Court into an ominous economic threat to organized roUgion.
Frederick Walz, caused the high court to consider seriously for the first time whether the Constitution forbids states to exempt churches and synagogues from real estate taxes.
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There’s a lot riding on the outcome, besides constitutional theory.
Some $79.5 billion in religious property could be opened to taxation — $726-million worth in New/ York state alone — if Wak wins.	O ‘i \	'A.'1 - •' A*
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Walz had help from the American Civil Liberties Union and Edward J. Ennis, an ACLU lawyer from New York City who represented Walz at today’s hearing;
Arrayed against Walz were New York city and state, 36 other states, the National Council of Churches, the United States Catholic Conference and ofher major religious
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J. Lee, Rankin, corporation counsel of New York City and U.S. solicitor general from 1956 to 1961, asked the court to. throw out Walz’ claim that the First Amendment forbids an exemption from real estate taxes for buildings that are used entirely for religious purposes.
'Money Racket Corrupts Viets'
WASHINGTON (AP) - A billion-dollar currency manipulation racket with Indian' moneychangers at the top and GI deserters at the bottom has corrupted some South Vietnamese officials, congressional investigators have been told.
The investigations committee, headed by Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn., also heard testimony yesterday that millions of dollars from the illegal operation end up in U. S. banks.
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Robert Parker, an official at the.U.S. embassy in Saigon, said the Indians “constitute a syndicate in the most criminal and sinister sense of the word.”
“The presence of this well-known group of Indian currency violators, operating openly, weakens me morale of more dedicated Vietnamese law enforcement officials, makes corruption seem easy and encourages others to share in the black market profits themselves,” Parker, said. <
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He said many GIs have dealt with the money dealers who give tip to 240 South Vietnamese-piastm^onrtioliar1nstead“"* of the legai rate of 118-to-l. '■ !... *	. '
American deserters often sell their citizenship and contacts in ithe U.S. military to the syndicate, Parker indicated.
Church Tax Status at Stake
Walz began asserting this claim from the time he bought a 22-by-29-foot parcel in June 1967.
ASSESSED AT $100
The property, assessed at $100, has some trees and bushes but no buildings and no access to any street.
In a summons served on the city’s tax commission, Walz registered his basic complaint: that by paying a $5.24-a-year property tax he was being forced to indrectiy support the churches and synagogues that are exempt from taxes.
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The Supreme Court, on several occasions.! has declared that “no tax in auy amount, large or vnafl* can be levied to Sup-1 port any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may. be called; or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice. religion.” ’.	(
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But, at tile same time, the court has said the First Amendment “requires the state to be a neutral ih its relations with groups of religious believers aiid nonbelievers; it does notre-quire.the state to be their adversary.”
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The first statement is tbken as support of Walz’ position: the second is token by defenders of tax exemptions as authority and justification for continuing exemptions,
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