May 21, 1969

Sen Kennedy challenges Nixon Adm mil tactics, s, Sen; s draws rebuttal from Sen Scott

Natl Guard helicopter breaks up demonstration on campus by dropping CS, a dry form of tear gas; action comes 30 mins after troops guarding Heyns's home fired tear gas to disperse crowd of 500; violence grows out of 'funeral march' in memory of bystander who died as result of buckshot wounds received in pk rioting; some faculty members say they plan Vigil; Berkeley City Council votes to ask grand jury probe of situation; US Army training manual says CS is Army's most powerful tear gas

craft enters lunar gravity 38,900 mi from moon and increases speed; will cross in front of moon and then swing around moon's far side where astronauts will be out of radio contact with ground controllers; onboard computer will command firing of main rocket to slow down craft and drop it into lunar orbit; craft will orbit moon 31 times in 2 1/2 days; flight controllers say no further midcourse corrections of flight path will be necessary; earlier, astronauts revd lunar-orbit plans, sighted stars with sextant, identified earth landmarks and took photos of earth; transmitted unscheduled telecast showing pictures of earth and inside of cabin; Cernan twirled plastic water bag in unsuccessful effort to separate air bubbles, caused by excess hydrogen gas, from water-producing unit; Stafford lauded ground controllers for changing onboard computer's instructions so that craft's thruster rockets did not fire during night and disturb crew's sleep; schematic diagram shows mission's highlights

SRAM: Sen Proxmire charges USAF estimates of development costs have risen from $143-million to $359-million; says USAF has refused to disclose increases on grounds it would 'prejudice Govt's position' in negotiations with Boeing, prime contractor; questions whether USAF has 'something to hide'

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- President Nixon is scheduled to send to Congress next week a plan for turning the United States Post Office into a public corporation. Mr. Nixon briefed Congressional leaders on the project this morning. The conversion will require Congressional approval.

Apptd NYC Educ Bd interim member

pol issues reptdly may dominate Nixon-Nguyen Van Thieu meeting on Midway Is

Lindsay proposes $79.7-million increase in NYC's '69-70 budget, enough to provide for full operation of museums, libraries, other insts; several City Council leaders charge Lindsay needlessly precipitated months of artificial crisis by threatening inst closings; Lindsay denies using scare tactics

Arnold & Porter attys seek support from prominent lawyers across country in effort to persuade Justice Dept to drop grand jury probe of P A Porter and P S Berger, Arnold & Porter attys

FTC, 4-0, proposes regulation to require all forms of cigarette ad to carry warning that cigarette smoking 'may cause death'; says pub hearing will be held on July 1; Comr MacIntyre abstained, contending that comm should have awaited Cong action

US proposes adding 8 nations to Geneva conf, allies Japan and Netherlands, Communist nations of Hungary and Mongolia, and nonaligned nations of Argentina, Pakistan, Tunisia and Yugoslavia; had proposed W Ger instead of Netherlands but USSR objected unless E Ger was also admitted