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Show Home Delivery, CaU Tribune Phones 521-281- 0 Information, Advertising departments Classified ads, General display, Retail display, 521-353- 521-270- 521-2S6- 521-451- 1; 524-457- 1. - HONOLULU, HAWAII The Apollo 8 astronauts touched ground Saturday for the first time since circling the moon for an aloha welcome from more than 10,000 Hawaiians who rolled out a red carpet to meet them. The crowd gave a big cheer as the trios plane touched down at Hickam Air Force Base at 2:18 p.m. HST and taxied up to the red carpet. Their airplane, designed for an aircraft carrier, folded its wings like a bird. Sixteen years ago I stopped here In Hawaii as a second lieutenant going the other way and spent' Christmas Eve here, said Aii Force Col. Frank Borman, "And I didn't get nearly this reception. "I'm proud to be a part of something I think our country and the whole world c an be proud of and I want to thank you, the American people, for helping make it possible, Air Force Lt. Col. William A. Anders told the crowd. Welcome to the good earth, moon men, said a sign bobbing in the crowd. Aloha, moon men, cheered another. Still a third, apparently waved by a visitor trem the mainland, said, Canada welcomes you." The astronauts, wearing blue flight suits and caps bearing the name of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown. waved to the as an Air Force band well-wishe- Up, Up and Away. They got a carnation flower lei and a kiss from two pretty girls, one of them Olympic diving champion Keala O'Sullivan. Then the trio stood at attention as the band played the National Anthem. Im only sorry we cant spend more played than the 20 or 00 minutes we have here before we have to leave on our wav back to Houston," Borman told the crowd. Then they boaided an Air Force C141 transport plane and took off on ? nonstop flight to Ellington Air Force Base near Houston. They were expected to arrive in Houston at 2:55 a m. EST. Despite the hour, the families of Borman, Anders and the third astronaut, Navy Capt. James A. Lovell, will be on hand to greet the three moon mariners, the first men to see the lunar surface from onlv 69 miles. 7J 524-458- ti Aloha for 3 Astronauts Then Bv Ron Staton 524-452- 1; 524-454- 5; 5; Associated Press Writer 521-450- 1; Scores, Womens, Kews and Editorial, Sports, Promotion, Magazine, 524-450- Among their greeters In Hawaii were Gov. John A. Burns, who got out of a sicklied to declare their flight a tribute to the human spirit; Lt Gen. Clane E. Hutchin, chief of staff of the U.S. Hacific Command; Adm. John J. Hvlami, commander of the Pacific Fleet; and Sens. Daniel K Inouye, D Hawaii, and Iliram L. Fong. R Hawaii The spacemen spent more than a da aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yoik-towafter they were nicked up by helti icopter from the gentle rolling, pre-daPacific 1,000 miles south of hp. e on Fri, day. They landed In the darknes-- aboard n their spacecraft after a vox age of a half-nnlli- miles. The astionauts cruised tnwuid Hawaii on the earner for moie than a day and 's then were catapulted from the dock for a flight to Hicham. The trio on board the earner talked about their historic flight, rested in quur. ters designed for an admiral and made a final visit to the spacecraft which carried them a quarter million rves to the moon, around it 10 times ?'.ci then bac k to a pinjioint landing ir tor Set-- P Column 1 Yuik-town- pre-daw- Miracle Moon Mission Astronauts Join Ranks Of Historys Select Giants of Adventure By Howard Benedict Associated Press Writer SPACE KENNEDY, HOUSTON -I- ncredibly, three men have just returned from a momentous journey around the moon and their names have been etched beside the great explorers of history. The world thrilled as Air Force Col Frank Borman. Navy Capt. James A. Lovell Jr. and Air Force Maj. vv iiiiam A. Anders circled the moon on Christmas Eve and relayed live television pictures so that earthlings could take a look at this alien body that has puzz'ed man they could make space work for mankind and they developed satellites for communications, navigation, weather fu. coasting and military reconnaissance. Names like Tel.-taTiros, Transit. Echo and Early Bird became household words. After a slow start, by 1962 both the United States and Russia were launching r, great numliers of satellites, as many as eight with a single rocket. To date America has launched more Sit Page 4, Column 1 from the beginning. They made it almost certain that other American astronauxts would land on the moon next year, fulfilling a pledge made by former President John F. Kennedy more than seven years ago when U.S. space program war in Its infancy. The flight of Apollo 8 was a miracle of science and technology, the combination of the immense talents, hard work and of the technology the thousands who work with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its sprawling industrial team. Nixon Requests Draft of Yiet Startle World elect Nixon instructed his top foreign policy advisers Saturday to determine the range of options available to his new administration in Vietnam policy as a step toward development of a coherent strategy" to guide U.S. action. That account came from one of the men who participated in a r n policy conference on the screened porch of Nixons bayside winter retreat. This participant said the policy alternatives will be worked out prior to Nixon's inauguration Jan. 20 so that instructions on the course chosen by the new president c?n be sent sliortly thereafter to U.S. negotiators in Paris, to the embassy in Saigon and to the military command in Vietnam. Folic y Options d names consume a plane at the Beirut borne Israeli commandos launched a rocket attack in retaliation for the destruction Inter- national Airport Saturday after helicopter- - 2 Bandits Take 6500,000 in Brinks Holdup BOSTON (AP) Two bandits wearing black ski masks and black gloves and displaying a machine gun held up a Brink's armored truck and escaped with $500,000 Saturday night, police said. The robbery occurred shortly after 6:30 p.m. on Canal Street in Boston's busy North End section. Police said the driver and another guard were on a coffee break at the time of the holdup opposite one of Bostons best known restaurants, the Uieion Oyster House. Police said the loot apparently was the collection of Saturdays receipts in Boston major department and other stores. Israeli Commandos Destroy 11 Planes In Reprisal Raid ou Airport at Beirut By Ron Essoyan Associated Press Writer LEBANON BEIRUT, First word on the robbery came w hen Richard Haines of Tewksbury, a messenger inside the truck, burst into Lower Basin police station and told police, I have just been held up. Haines was quoted by police as saying that he was in the locked truck while the guards were having coffee and that two masked men opened the door on the drivers side with a key. He said they snowed him a machine gun and then disarmed him. He said one of the bandits then diwe the truck a short distance away to a parking lot on Nashua Street opposite the Registry of Motor Vehicles Building where they transferred the oot to a station wagon. Haines told police the robbers threatened to blow his head off and then pulled a hat over his eyes. He said the bandits took a red wooden trunk marked Filenes, a black steel trunk marked Jordan Marsh, one black suitcase marked Raymonds and the rest of the loot in 48 and 50 money bags with assorted bank markings. Filenes, Raymond's and Jordan Marsh are Boston's biggest department stores. He said a third drove the station wagon that hauled avav the looi. The bandits manacled Haines before escaping. He was handcuffed when he appeared at the police station. lie minor injuries to his wrists front the handcuffing. Lower Basin police station is only a short distance fiom the parking lot to the stawhere the loot was transt-mretion wagon. d Helicopter-born- e scrambled to intercept the raiders. Varying accounts put the number of Israeli helicopters at from two to six. Airport officials reported all aircraft of Middle East Airlines, Lebanese International Airlines on the ground and freight-carryin- g Airlines that were at the time were de- stroyed. lived In Refugee Camps Government informants said the two men who attacked the jet In Athens had been living in two Palestinian refugee camps in northern Lebanon. Fassengcrs Run for Cover fire peppered the airport terminal while screaming passengers ran for cover. There were no official reports of casualties but one man said he saw a Lebanese soldier wounded. The entire operation lasted about 45 minutes and in Tel Aviv the Israeli army said all members of the raiding party had completed the trip back to Israel without a scratch. Only Lebanese aircraft were hit. Planes of other international airlines at the airport were not touched. Israel had accused Lebanon of aiding the Arab guerrilla organization that claimed credit for the attack on the Israeli passenger plane Thursday at Athens. One Israeli was killed in that attack. denied the charge. The men were identified in Athens by police as Mahmoud Mohammed Issa. 27, and Maher Hussein Sulleiman. 19. They had flown to Athens earlier Thursday on a commercial flight from Beirut. Both were captured quickly by police after the attack. The two w ere charged Saturday by an Athens public prosecutor with eight counts, including premeditated murder, illegal use and possession of firearms and endangering human lives. If found murder guilty on the premeditated charge, they could receive the death penalty. No trial date had been set. Aimed to Make Point machine-gu- n l'.S. Protests Life Threatened - Israeli commandos raided Beirut International Airport with gunfire and explosives Saturday night. They destroyed 11 Lebanese planes in a lightning reprisal for an attack by two Arabs on an Israeli jetliner. Working with clockwork precision, the commandos moved from plane to plane, shooing off passengers at gunpoint and planting explosives under the wings. Blasts rocked the area and flames shot skyward from planes and buildings. Flunies of Sounds Alarm of Isra-i- i jet at Athens during the week. In all, 11 Lebanese planes were destroyed. Raid In Washington, the U.S. State Department summoned the top Israeli diplomat to receive a U.S. protest In the strongest terms, against the Saturday raid. The rebuke came on the heels of announcement that the United States would deliver next year the first of 50 Phantom jet fighters ordered by Israel. The Beirut airport, major crossroads of air traffic m the Middle East, is five from downtown Beirut. City subto within a few hundred voids of its lunvvavs. The nearest Lebanese miliiarj airport is 10 mil'' away, a few minutes' jet flight. Liul no Lebanese air force planes miles mit stretch Todays Chuckle Remember when girls stayed koine because they had nothing to wear? In Tel Aviv, official sources explained tlie Saturday raid was to "make it crystal clear to the other side it is at least as vulnerable as Israel is. Sometimes quantity has the benefit of making this clear, an informant said. With what is at stake we do not think this attack was out of proportion. comic secPU S . . , Big tion. Home and Parade Magazines and advertising sections from the Club, Presidential Life Insurance Co. and Hohhv Photo Service. full-col- Sumlajs Forecast Salt Lake City and Utah Variably cloudy with scattered snow mostly near mountains. Colder with highs near 35, lows about 15. See weather map on Page C-- He said the raid was authorized by the Israeli government. He claimed there are guerrilla framing camps in Lebanon at Tripoli, Tyre and Saida, that the guerillas have mobilization camps and depots for arms ami explosives, and that guerrilla activities are ''conducted openly, with the full lognizuwe and knowledge of Hie government." asserted that IS salxitage incidents have been launched against Israel from Lebanon since September. When the Arabs carry the fight out of the area to civilian targets we will not take it lying down, he said. He What a contrast from 11 years ago Russia had the upper hand in space and the United States was suffering great embarrassment on the world stage. The Soviets startled the world Oct. 4, 1957, when it orbited the worlds first arPresident tificial satellite. Then Dwight D. Eisennower ignored the launching as a stunt. But as world reaction rolled in, there was panic in Washington. Russia had scored a tremendous technological and propaganda victory. It no longer was considered a land of plowboys and peasants. Many U.S. rocketmen were upet. They had the capability of launching a satellite a year before, using a military Redstone rocket as a booster. But Eisenhower denied them the opportunity. He said the U.S. space program must be based on peaceful intent and ordered an entirely new rocket, the Vanguard, built from scratch. The Vanguard was ordered to the launch pad as quickly as possible. Before It could be fired, Sputnik 2 shot into space with the dog Laika. when Vanguard Fails On Dec. 6. 1957. with the world watching, Vanguard was ready to boost a satellite into orbit. small troubled countdown, the slim After rocket rose two feet off its pad, lost tluust and dropped back on its pad ir a massive explosion. ordered the Amy to Washington ready its mothballed Redstone booster. A team headed by former German rocket expert Wemher von Braun launched the three-poun- Jan. 31, rocket, renamed a Jupiter-C- . 1958, and successfully orbited Explorer 1, placing the U.S. firmly in the space race These initial rockets were small, but they provided the basic technology to larger, moie sophisticated weapons. Most were built initially for military , but were adapted for space puipc.-esv. a. k. These included the Thor. Atlas anil rockets. Titan The first satellites were relatively simple, usually carrying radiation counters and other devices to take scientific readings 100 miles or so above the earth. Then exerts went to work to see how long-rang- e By Walter R. Mears Associated Press Writer KEY BISCAYNE, FLA. President- five-hou- for-eig- To Define Course The instructions will define where Nixon "intends to go in Vietnam policy, the adviser said, what specific measures are required to achieve the end chosen and what specific attitudes should be taken at the Paris peace table. "I would think it would be safe to say that these will be written instructions, the Nixon adviser said. He briefed newsmen on the policy conference with the understanding that his name would not be disclosed. The possible policy options were not discussed in detail, only in general, tlie Nixon aide said. Secretary of William P. Rogers, Secretary State-designa- of Melvin R. Laird, and Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, assistant for national security affairs, were instructed to work out in detail the alterDefense-designat- e natives available. Goal Talks Success "Certainly we want the negotiations to succeed and we will make a major effort to develop policies to try to make tlie negotiations succeed," tlie Nixon adviser said. He said Satin day's did not produce major policx decisions but instead de eloped a framework so that they can he made swiftly when Nixon takes office. Vietnam ranked as one of thiee major areas in which Nixon believes an early judgment will be necessary. Another is that of strategy weapons Sit Page 2, Column $ se-xi- Apollo Crew Join Famous Pioneer Voyagers Tlie explorers of Apollo 8 took their places in bistory alongside Columbus, Magellan and other intrepid voyage; s upon their return to earth Friday after an incredible journey into space which included man's fii st trip around the moon. Man's efforts to explore new horizons are as old as recorded history but the most famous of tlie New World discovers was Christopher Columbus, who in 1492 left Palos, Spain, with an estimated crew of 83 men and discovered San Salvador, l Columbus made three more voyages to the New Woild in 1493, 149S and 1500. Feidinand Magellan, a Portuguese navigator, commanded the first expedition to circumnavigate the earth. Magellan set sail with live ships and about 240 men from Sanluear, Spain on Sept 20, 1519. lie was kill-x- t by natives on the island of Cebu near the Philippines April 27, 1521. Eventually, only 18 men and one Rhip returned safely to Spam- - Other names in explorer history clude in- : Robert E. Peary, who reached tlie North Pole April 6. 1SU9. Roald Amundsen, who with four men and dog teams reached the South Pole Dec. 14. 1911. Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett, who w ere the first to fly over the North role May 9, 1926. Charles A. Llndberg, a U.S. Air Maul pilot, who left Roosevelt F.eld in l ong Island, New York May 20, 1927 in his monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, to Paris, and flew the Atlantic France, aniving May 21, 33 hours 29 minutes and 30 seconds later. Maj. Yuri Gagarin, of Russia, who became the first man into space when he rode Vostok I into orbit around the earth April 12, 1961. Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr., who became the first American in orbit Feb. 20, 1962, when he circled the earth three times in the Mercury capsule Friendship non-sto- p 7. |