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Moon-Walkers Lift Off Safely, Orbit to Meet Command Ship
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. blasted off safely from the moon find into lunar orbit today, beginning the complex, maneuvers to link up with their mother ship. They left behind their footprints in the lunar dust and in the history of man.
Their lift-off began 69 seconds after the command ship, with Michael Collins its lone passenger, passed 69 miles aboye Tranquillity Base. Seven minutes later, they entered orbit and a 3%-hoUr chase began.
' If all went well, the two ships would link up at 4:32 p.m. (Pontiac time) and head for home at 11:57 a.m. Tuesday.
Their thrusty lander, which settled them onto the surface yesterday for a 21V4 hour stay, served them, too, at liftoff. They left behind' the spindly legged lower stage, their launching platform, as a permanent memento of July 20, 1969 — the day man landed on the moon. FIRST MOON LIFT-OFF It was the first time a rocket had lifted anything from the moon.
As they prepared for lift-off, Armstrong provided a description of the boulder field in which Eagle had landed.
“Some of the boulders look as if they’re : basalt, and some seem to have crystals,” he said. > * -
The astronauts etched their names beside those of history’s great explorers, Colifcnbus, Balboa, Magellan, da Gama and Byrd.
But what a difference.
When Columbus landed in the New World, Spain’s Queen Isabella didn’t hear about it for six weeks.
Through the magic of television, an estimated 500 million people around the world had a ringside seat to man’s greatest adventure.
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It . was unforgettable.
Armstrong climbed through the LM hatch and started backing down a nine-rung ladder. Qn the second rung from the bottom, he opened a compartment, exposing a television camera'. .
The picture was black and white and somewhat jerky, but It recorded history. Among scientists, there was Nation
that the crew had landed in an area .with § , variety of rocks, a treasure that held at least the hope of a rich payoff in the search to learn more about moon and earth.
As Armstrong planted his size 9% left boot op the powdery surface at 9:56 p.m. yesterday, he spoke words that will be remembered for all time: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION
The camera trained on Aldrin as he
stepped on the moon 20 minutes later and exclaimed: “Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation.”
There were also Armstrong’s words when Eagle separated from the command ship 'to start the dangerous de- -scent: “The Eagle is flylhg,”
There were Armstrong’s —and man’s—first words from the moon’s surface after touchdown at 4:18 p.m.: “Houston ... Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed.” . ,
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Diagrams Show Landing Near Moon's Equator
Neil Armstrong Puts Man's First Footprint On Moon
Ted Charged With Leaving Scene of an Auto Accident'
EDGARTOWN, Mass. W - Police today filed a formal complaint charging . Sen. Edward M. Kennedy with leaving the scene of an accident.
The action stems from a weekend auto mishap on nearby Chappaquiddick Island, in' which Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, of Washington was Wiled and Kennedy was injured.
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Chief Dominic J. Arena said yesterday he is “firmly, convinced there was no negligence involved” in the accident.
The mishap , occurred between 11 pun. -—Friday andl-a.m. -Saturday as-Komedy waS driving Miss Kopechne to a landing to catch the ferry back to nearby Martha’s Vineyard after a dinner party with friends on the island.
The car skidded off a narrow bridge and landed bottom-up in eight feet of water. Kennedy escaped with what a physician said was a mild concussion. Miss Kopechne, former secretary to the
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late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., was trapped in the vehicle and drowned,
Kennedy went to the police 10 hours after the accident.
‘LEFT DAZED’
Kennedy told police he was left dazed by the accident. He said he tried repeatedly to rescue Miss Kopechne, but was not able to find her.
Kennedy said he returned to the scene of the dinner party after the accident and climbed into the rear seat of a car parked outside.
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■ “f“then ■’ asked someone to isrtng me"* back to Edgartown,” he continued. “I remember walking around for a period of time and then going back to my hotel room. When I fully realized what happened this morning I immediately went to the police.”
Arena said today he wanted to look more closely at the circumstances surrounding the dinner party.
IN SECLUSION
Kennedy and his wife, Joan, remained in seclusion yesterday at his home on Squaw Island.
In Washington, Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield of Montana said he did not think Kennedy’s career would be damaged. “This is something that could happen to any one of us.”
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He said of the tragedies that (have beset the Kennedy family: “They have some kind of star, I guess.”
MARY JO KOPECHNE
King's Brother Is Found Dead
Suez City Under f ire After Fierce Battle
Fair Skies Chase Showers Away
Even the weatherman seems to be celebrating the astronauts’ moon venture today — with a moratorium oh showers.
Today and tonight wiil.be fair with tonight's low falling in the 55-to-60 range.
Tomorrow will be sunny and mild with a high near 80. And Wednesday promises , f to be more of the same, fair with temperatures a little warmer. , - y
This morning’s' light , variable -winds will Swing to the northeast by this, evening at five to 10 miles per hour. Probability of precipitation in percent today 5, tonight and tomorrow 10.
ATLANTA, Ga. (AP)-The Rev, A. D. King, 38, only brother of slain Dr; Martin Luther King Jr., was found dead today in the swimming pool of his Atlanta home, ah associate said.
King came home late last night and went for a swim in his backyard .pool and his body was found this morning by three of his children, said the Rev. Andrew Young.
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Cause of death was not learned immediately.
Young is executive vice president oh Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC, of which A. D, King was a director.
It was little more than 16 months ago; that the older brother was shot to death by a sniper in Memphis, Tom.
MOVED TO ATLANTA
King mWed tq Atlanta and became copastor of Ebenejser Baptist /Church, with his father following the assassination.	1	1 * ,
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King had been active in the civil rights movement in Louisville, Ky., leading open housing demonstrations, and in Birmingham, Ala.,during a siege of 1963/demonstrations in which his hbrpe was bombed.
. An SCLC spokesman said King’s wife and two youngest children were in Jamaica, West Indies, with Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin King.
By The Associated Press
The city of Suez on the southern end of Egypt’s Suez Canal came under Israeli artillery fire today, Egyptian officials reported.
The shelling followed air and ground battles along the 103-mile waterway yesterday in the fiercest fighting since the war of June 1967.
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The Egyptians gave no idea when the shelling started or how heavy it was.
Arr”Israeli“army spokesmair-irr Tel Aviv denied. Suez was under artillery attack, but he reported brief, sporadic incidents along the canal.
TRIP CALLED OFF
The Egyptians reported Israeli artillery fire on the city -to foreign correspondents who were about to depart for Suez with Egyptian officials to survey the wreckage of Israeli aircraft downed in yesterday’s action. But the trip was called off with the Egyptians saying artillery fire made it too risky.
Yesterday’s action began before dawn
with an Israeli commando attack on Green Island, an Egyptian fortress in the Gulf of Suez. Israeli jets followed up 12 hours later, hitting Egyptian positions across the canal for the first time since the 1967 war.
Egyptian planes then made a series of raids on Israeli targets in the occupied Sinai desert.
The Egyptians claimed they shot down 19 Israeli jets, one during the Green "-■Tsland wtid and-the rest -in dogfights along the canal. The Israelis admitted losing two Mirage fighters, but said they shot down five Egyptian planes.
Artillery duels raged for more than six hours up. and down the 103-mile waterway. U.N. observers pleaded twice for a cease-fire, but the ground and air fighting continued. -
Israel said three of its soldiers were killed and three wounded by artillery fire. The Israelis reported she commandos killed and nine wounded* in the attack on Green Island; Egypt claimed 30 Israelis killed,
By Police Trial Board
Arrest Probe Set
A seven-member civilian police trial board will investigate charges that 10 white policemen beat two Negroes while arresting them, Police Chief William K. Hanger has announced.
. Hanger has been conducting his own investigation of the incident, ,but\has refused to Suspend! the policemen involved. •
A formal request for the trial board probe was made by Elbert Hatchett, president of the Oakland County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Hatchett claims the police officers were unnecessarily brutal July 10 when they arrested two black persons after an incident at the Hayes Jones Center.'
TWO MEN ARRESTED
Arrested were Kenneth Walker, 27, and
British Report Luna 15 Landing
JODRELL BANK, England (A—Russia landed Luna 15 on the moon’s surface today, 500 miles from where America’s Apollo astronauts were preparing to take off on their journey back to earth, Jod-rell Bank Observatory reported.
Signals picked up at the giant radio-telescope here indicated that after four days of moon orbit the unmanned probe landed on the moon’s Sea of Crises.
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Jodrell Observatory, headed by 55-year-old Sir Bernard Lovell, stood by for any sign that Luna itself might be preparing to return to earth.
Prof. John G. Davies, Lovell’s aide, "Said at 12:06 p.m. 'EDT:"“Lufia E38 landed.”
SOFT LANDING
The last signals received from Luna were “appropriate to a soft landing,”, he added.
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Asked about the possibility that the probe could still lift off with a lunar sample for a round trip to earth ahead , of Apollo 11, Davies said: “It is now possible that the Russian probe will be back faster than the Americans. There may be savings in time with an un-, manned craft with no docking procedures.”	.

Elick Shorter, 25. Walker is a Harambee worker and Shorter is director of education for the Pontiac Area Urban League,
The ruckus started when Pontiac officers Raymond Hawks and Carl ;Yuill were mgdng a\ “goodwill” visit to Hie \ community center and allegedly were met with taunts and shouted' Obscenities.
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In a brief scuffle, Walker and Shorter both suffered head; injuries. Both men have been charged with resisting arrest, and Walker also will face a charge of creating a disturbance,.
. Walker claims that no obscenities were Shouted and that Shorter only was trying to act as peacemaker.
Hanger Said the trial board would' probably complete its investigation within 15 days.
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