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Show rhe DESERET SAMPLER, Fri., Jan. 8, 1971 Reflections, 1970 A year of COL Etkin Assumes DTC Command The Top 1 2 10 News Stories Abortive flight of Apollo 13 Shootings at Kent State end Jackson State Universities 3 A 5 6 7 8 9 10 Vietnam War spreads to Cambodia Terrorism spreads across the United States Arab guerrillas hijack four jetliners and hold hostages. November U. S. elections Recession and inflation In U. S. economy Senate rejects Supreme Court appointment for G. Harrold Carswell Growing concern over pollution Terrorists kidnap and kill in Canada i 'General Westmoreland's Compliments, Private . . . and After the Coffee Reveille Gathering?1 Would You Kindly Join Us at the Ten-Thir- ty Col. Capel Assumes (Courtesy of The Boston Globe) Hospital Command I Tony Vicira J.liI r'f Hey, we've 'got a problem here" the voice So came from space and thus liegan the top news story of earth adliltbed flight Army on the move 1970. The dramatic and near disastrous flight of Apollo 13 was the numler one news story of 1970 by the editors and news directors of The Associated Press memlier newspapers and radio and TV stations. The alarm from space came at 10:08 p.m. EST April 13 when an explosion all but crippled the moon-boun- d space vehicle, changing a normal flight into an epic journey of suspense that ended when the astronauts three safely splashed into the Pacific four days later. Apollo 13 was two days from moon landing Iwaring astronauts Jaines A. Lovell Jr, Fred W. liaise Jr., and John L Swigert Jr., when the accident occurred. As oxygen supplies fell low, the three men moved lwck into the moon landing vehicle which lecame their lifeboat in space. Helped by (he ground the control at Houston, astronauts guided their wounded spacecraft around the moon and headed Iwck towards earth as the space men and technicians on pro- cedures. The United States Army made the headlines toward the end of 1970 in moves that still have some old military men shaking their heads. From redeploying forces from Vietnam, inactivating units, and reducing the size of our support lxise in the United States, to doing with Army-wid-e "Mickey Mouse" actions and harrassment, the Army is now committing itself away effort in workto an ing towards a zero draft. Troops at Dugway Proving Ground have already started reaping some of the ltenefits as the Army all-o- ut te-gi- reassessing some necessary, irritating, and unreasonable demands it placed on its soldiers in un- the past. No longer is it necessary for soldiers to sign-i- n or sign-oduring normal off duty hours. Class ut A Pass forms have liecn eliminated, and there are no longer any locally imposed restrictions on the distance that individuals may travel while on pass. Ceneral W. C. Westmoreland, Army Chief of Staff, said he expected commanders at every level to tape rapid and positive actions which will enhance service attractiveness and remove irritants to the troops. More hair in sight Many ideas are presently I)eing considered throughout the Army under guidelines laid down by the Army secretary and chief of staff. One of the recom- mendations now under consideration is from a Defense Department group which suggests that the Army liberlize its hair standards to permit longer mustaches, longer hair, longer and beards. Another big news story of 1970 was mat of pollution. As the sixties drew to a close, man realized he could already see, taste, feel, smell and hear what the prophets had been saying: Man was polluting his atmosphere and would side-bu- himself unless measures were taken. By 1970 though, the nation pretty much jumped on the bandwagon and pollution became a national issue. Every politician was against it and Washington stirred with committees seeking to do something alxut it. Interest of another sort focused on the burgeoning women's lib movement. Women's lightest Kate Millet came out with a much taut-e- d book on man's oppression of women called "Sexual Politicism" and women's lib showed its strength in an August 26 Strike for Equality. In Mrs. Septemler, Barbara B. Gunderson, a columnist and spokeswoman for women employes addressed Deseret Test Center supervisors on the plight of the women. "Good night, ClietM familiar face vanished from the tv screen in 1970, Chet Huntley, who retired, ending his long tenure with NBC in the A Report. George Blanda, the Huntley-Brinkle- y Bobby Orr, the Boston Bruins hockey player who lecame the first defense-ma- n to lead a hockey leain gue scoring and paced his team to the Stanley Cup Title; Brooks Robinson, third baseman of the Baltimore Orioles whose almost magical fielding helped demoralize the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series; and Mohammad Ali, the defrocked heavyweight champion who set out to regain his title by knocking out his first two opponents since lieing reinstated as a prizefighter after 34 years. Xobel Peace Prize Scientists made news in them Among profusion. E. Norman Borlaug, ,'were an American agricultural expert who won the 1970 Noliel Peace prize for developing new grains of wheat leading to what known as the Green Revolution" greater holding yielding crops promise of easing world lie-ca- quartered and of the Oakland kicker place Raiders, liecaine the hero man of the middle-age- d by coining in as a substitute Sunday after Sunday, to score last minute victories for his footlwll team. Other sports heroes were hunger. There were two 'firsts' registered by religious personalities in 1970. The Rev. Roliert F. Drinan, S. J. dean of Boston College law school, liecame the first Catholic Priest elected to a state senate, and the Rev. Elizalxtfh Platz l)ecame the first woman ever ordained a Lutheran in the United minister States. Few commanded as much page one attention as Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, who lecame a household word during 1970 as he entered the lists against tv commentators, newspaper columnists, members of the even Democratic party members of his own party, such as Sen. Charles Good-e- ll of New York whom the vice president classified in encouras a radical-li-b deGoodeU's eventual aging feat in the senatorial elec- 35 Hike Retroactive To Feb. 1 President Signs GI Bill Raise Last Saturday President Richard M. Nixon signed into law a bill liberalizing the whole range of veterans educational benefits, including raising the GI Bill allowances almost 35 percent monthly. tion. The economy did not have a happy 1970. The stock market had one of its better downhill runs; unemployment rose to a seven- - and-- a- - half year high; and inflation continued to eat away at the family paycheck. These are but a few of the things which should make 1970 a year to Scouts Clean Up Roadside 'Hut o,' "Ufa i Dugway Mustangs "Who are we?. . . The Statebound Mustangs!" This cheerleading call be- came familiar to Dugway resi- dents this past week as the Dugway High School Mus- - State tangs made athletic history by journeying for the first time ever to the State Class B Basketball Tournament in Cedar City. The Mustangs earned the Tourney Bound opportunity to participate in the playoffs last week when they defeated the St Francis 7 Padres and the Tintic 76-2- Miners 614)2, in the Region Five Playoffs. "Go Mustangs!" I i i 1 - 8 HIGH IN TIIK A1K Mustang forward Itory McCullough Rich in goes high in tlic air to get off a shot against North the Region V playoffs. The Mustangs after losing their first and game in the tourney came hack to win two in a row gain a forth in the state playoffs this week. The i Mustangs-Reg- ion O Five Champs of 1970! |