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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, March 18, 1966

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Morch 1966 gemini gain and setback by Al Rossiter Cape March 17 up the night of gemini 8 taxed Man and machine to the yet gave the United states a significant space first As Well As a serious space set and it left the future of the fast paced schedule for the four remaining and similar gemini missions very much in it was a flight that started off wednesday with flawless perfection and ended with what apparently came close to be coming the first Manin space none of us knows exactly what said Rob Ert director of the manned spacecraft Center in we do know that it was very serious serious what is known is that Gem Ini 8 rolled and heaved out of control As it whirled around the Globe at Miles an putting astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott in jeopardy until they tamed its but for 7 and 2 Man ales before the stunning fall gemini 8 was a textbook its performance was laying the groundwork Tor americas future Apollo flights to the Moon and Armstrong and Scott blazed through a 5uhour series of Maneu vers that gave them a near perfect rendezvous with their orbiting Agena target sat 35 minutes they nudged the nose of their capsule into a special opening in the Agena to achieve his torys first linkup in but with the Agena still hooked to the the trouble gemini 8 was quickly ordered to make an emergency splashdown in the Western Pacific americas m n e d space flight program has had prob lems but the troubles were corrected and the nights with gemini the eve present threat of an abort became a it left a Cloud Over the launch of gemini astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan in an identical space Craft Aid with an identical Agena target the shot Kad been set for the second week la Gilruth said preparations for gemini 9 will continue while engineers seek the cause of the gemini 8 but he re fused to guess what effect the trouble will have on gemini 9 and future water for the West giant schemes for dry lands water from the North two pro Pogioli is solution feasible by Ralph Dighton los March 17 the West is big and so Are its one of the biggest is the Lack of water and to solve it the West is thinking in the billions will be needed to build a River perhaps Miles Long that will draw excess water from the wet North West to the dry its a monumental task and May take More than a nothing of its scope has been attempted the Cost will be so great that Only the roughest estimates Are much will depend on the route selected for the giant and surveying alone May run into hundreds of Mil its not even certain that the calling for transporting tap problem  have you taped March 17 Nana the internal Rev Ems service May be getting a lot of income tax reports of magnetic tape by next the Agency says starting next original copies of info Maura returns will be accepted either on As in the or on compute produced magnetic deadline Dales win be the program provides for filial magnetic tape As a subs to original copies Only of forms tale for Banks Aid in Porado in and pm it still Aotley Ulm receiving the payments and stale Aid local governments according to present of a Small sea of water annually through the nations highest mountains and widest will Ever be a scientific breakthrough in desalination of Ocean or in weather could make the Aqueduct Unne Ces unless science catches up with fiction in a How water experts say a Nile sized Aqueduct is the Only feasible solution to a problem vital to the future of the Western states have been a Long time coming around to this for a Hal Century they squabble Over the Waters of a natural the mighty As its now dwindled and their populations increased the seven states of the Colo Rado Basin Wyo new Ari Nevada and California began looking for another re they found it Miles its the Columbia with 10 times the Colorado flow on the Border Between Washington and several Hundred Miles is the columbian big the Snake River in an Aqueduct from the Colum Bia to Lake Mead behind Hoover Dpn on the Colorado would Cost an estimated til billion from the Snake to Lake about Idaho want to preserve their great before the Colorado Basin states could Hope to invade the Northwest for they had to Settle their own quarrels for maximum Benefit from the this they Are about to pending in Congress is a billion project primarily to build Bridge Canyon dam and Marble Canyon dam below and above the grand Canyon and to carry Colorado River water from Parker dam to arizonans booming Phoenix and Tucson the project also Calls for a massive Survey of possible ways to Channel additional water into the Colorado so there will be enough for other especially in the this Survey is expected to Point to the Columbia and Snake Palomares tension recedes Spain March it a the headache that began for the United states when a b5s nuclear bomber and a let Tanker collided and crashed on the near Here two months ago has eased con the worst pain remaining comes from the failure to locate one of four atomic de vices from the shattered bomb still other aches from the tragedy the of  by the bursting Al two of three Mclear which fell on mounting damage claims by affected by this  or other byproducts of the ruffled official because spaniards were posed to such dangers of Ike nuclear age largely have Dis much of the change was credited Here to the common sense applications of mar commanding the 16th air Force in and his Spanish air Force Antonio Montel residents of this coastal Long isolated and unaccustomed to so Many have praised the and Spanish governments for their handling of the terrible thing which could have been Many times i the people of Palomares and nearby communities within the crash area will loin sunday for a Community gathering and a concert by the 16th or Force band based near Madrid to observe the virtual closing of the search Wilson said the last major activity of Camp Wilson would be completion of the loading of steel Drums filled with radioactive Earth and vegetation skimmed from the contaminated areas near this Beach onto a freighter for Transfer to the atomic Energy commissions burial ground for unwanted nuclear materials near technicians of both the ish and nuclear Energy commissions have rechecked and reconfirmed that no Trace of radioactivity remains any where in the area originally the search continues at where rear William guests task Force 6s May keep up their Hunt among the rough contours of the Mediterranean sea Bottom for months to Iuro Han coition Ahev naw aim William Coli Man Piaf Arnold Aluir Frank Hinev Cuttin Oregon and  
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