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Moratorium Demonstrations Spark Dispute SEE STORY BELOW Sunny, Milder Sunny and milder today. Clear THEWJLY FINAL and mild tonight. Fair, quite mild tomorrow. (See Details. Page 2), EDITION Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 100 RED BANK, N. J., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1969 24 PAGES 10 CENTS IlllllllllilllllllliNlllllllHIlllillliailtiiBlllt Yankee Clipper Nears Moon9sGrip . SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - The Apollo 12 ex- grasp of lunar gravity. They were to pass through this in- plorers inspected their moon-landing craft today as the visible barrier when they were 211,322 miles from earth and good ship Yankee Clipper hurtled unerringly toward the 38,933 miles from the moon. grip of lunar gravity and an orbit of the moon tonight. The spaceship's speed then was to begin increasing as Their target, a shimmering silver crescent, loomed larger Apollo 12 sweeps toward a loop around the backside of the and larger as their home planet shrank in the distance. moon. At 10:47 p.m., the astronauts are to fire Yankee Clip- Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr. and Alan L. Bean, who per's big enginet to zip into lunar orbit. are to attempt a pinpoint landing on the Ocean of Storms THE CAMERA WATCHES Wednesday, wiggled early today through a connecting tun- As Conrad and Bean moved into the lunar module for nel into the landing vehicle, hooked to the nose of the com- the familiarization check, the camera watched as they re- mand ship. moved the tunnel hatch and the harpoon-like docking mech- Richard F. Gordon Jr. remained alone in the Yankee anism to clear the tunnel. • Clipper cabin while Conrad and Bean made their 45-minute Inside the lander cabin, the astronauts beamed pictures inspection of the moon landing craft they call Intrepid. of the control panels, the back packs they'll wear on the TV CAMERA CARRIED moon, window markings that will help them land on the They carried along a television camera to transmit live moon and dust particles floating in weightlessness. Through color pictures of their trip through the three-foot tunnel into one window they,showed the receding earth, about three- the cabin of the four-legged craft. quarters in darkness. And through another they pictured As Conrad and Bean checked Intrepid's systems, Apollo the moon, a thin sliver of light. "The view is spectacular," 12 raced toward a so-called "twilight zone" in which the Bean commented. "It seems that we're in suspended anima- gravitational influence of the earth and moon is about equal. tion," Conrad said. Because of the early hour, television The moon was to win the gravitational tug-of-war early networks taped the show for later broadcast. this morning, placing the astronauts for the first time in the (See Apollo, Pg. 2, Col. 4) Hope Is Fading for Life FIERY BATTLE IN TOKYO —Two helrrieted student demonstrators stand near flames of exploding firebombs dur- ing clash with riot police at Tokyo's Kamata railway station yesterday. In background are the riot police with metal shields. The clash came about as the students protested Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's visit to the United Of Joseph P. Kennedy, 81 States this week. (AP Cablephoto) HYANNIS PORT, Mass. Kennedy had been given the Ambassador Sargent Shriv- (AP) — Joseph P. Kennedy's last rites of the Roman Catho- er and his wife, Eunice, the family gathered here today lic Church. oldest Kennedy daughter, after a doctor reported the Dr. Robert Watt of Hyan- flew in from Paris. former' ambassador, had suf- nis, who was called to the Patricia Kennedy Lawford fered a minor heart attack. U.S., Soviet Envoys Meet Kennedy compound over the and Jean Kennedy Smith, Kennedy, father of Presi- weekend to attend Kennedy, with husband Stephen, also dent John F, Kennedy, is 81 told the Boston Globe he had were in Hyannis Port. and has been in poor health suffered a minor heart attack. for eight years. A family spokesman said Richard Cardinal Cushing Kennedy suffered a crip- Jacqueline Onassis, the To Mull Nuclear Limits of Boston, a long-time family pling stroke in 1961 that left widow of President Kennedy, friend, said yesterday: "I had him partially paralyzed and and Ethel Kennedy, the wid- By LEWIS GULICK reinforced by Instructions from Nixon. Tluh SovU*8 ttt • a call from the family this confined to his bed or ,a ow of Sen. Robert F.- Kenher HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - U, S. and Soviet envoys secrecy-minded anyway. A proposal by the neutral Finns for morning advising me that he wheelchair. dy, D-N.Y., had been notified met today with public pomp and ceremony before going a joint press briefing before the conference was discouraged bad a very serious setback, Members of the Kenne- of the elder Kennedy's con- into secret discussions on the ground rules for negotiations by the Americans and turned down flatly by the Soviets, dip- and it seems that the good dy-family gathered here In- dition. to curb the nuclear arms race. lomatic sources said. The strategic arms limitations talks- •Lord'is about to take him in cluded Sen. Edward M. Ken- Kennedy was U.S. ambas- President Nixon was expected to send a message voic- referred to generally by officials as SALT—are starting off the foreseeable future." nedy, D-Mass., and his wife sador to Great Britain from ing American hopes for the tqlks, first proposed by Presi- at Helsinki in what is officially billed as a "preliminary" round aimed at staking out procedures and subjects to be An unofficial source said and three children. 1938 to-1940; dent Lyndon B. Johnson three years ago. Chief U. S. negotiator Gerard C. Smith, Soviet envoy discussed in full-scale negotiations later. Vladimir S. Semenov and Ahti Karjalainen, foreign minister The preliminaries are expected to last about three of the host Finnish government, also prepared short state- weeks, although no timetable has been set. ments for the 30-minute ceremonial opening. POSSIBILITY OPEN MEET IN MANSION Smith has left open the possibility that the talks may get Monmouth Moratorium The setting was a 145-year-old mansion in downtown into "substantive issues" quickly. One of these is whether Helsinki where the Russian governors general lived when to halt work on multiwarhead missiles. •,' Finland was part of the Czarist empire. Now it is used for However, both the U.S. and Soviet negotiators have indi- government entertainment. cated they do not intend to submit specific arms curb pro- After the speechmaking under television lights in a posals at this time. Semenov said the Helsinki round is de- Attracts Modest Crowd chandeliered yellow room, the diplomats were to have a signed to "lay down the basis for further negotiations." short private session in an adjacent blue room adorned with The strategic arms talks were proposed by Johnson With By PAUL KERN Friday there was a poorly Heuben Williams, speaking the reading of the names mirrors and classical paintings. the aim of slowing down the increasingly costly weapons SHREWSBURY - While attended rally at Monmouth for the War Moratorium Com- apologizing to people who are The serious business begins tomorrow when the six-man race which, in the U.S. view, did not really add to the se- curity of the two atomic superpowers. police and - demonstrators College in the morning. Even mittee, said he feels the lo- offended when the names of Soviet delegation and the U. S. team of four negotiators, smaller groups attended a cal demonstrations "had very the war dead are read. plus advisers and interpreters, hold their first secret meeting At that time, in 1946, disarmament advocates were most clashed in Washington Satur- march at Ft. Monmouth little effect on attitudes in Mrs. Irene Bry of Holmdel, in a guarded room at the American Embassy. concerned that development of an ABM, or antiballistic mis? day, about 100 persons stood where riot - trained soldiers this area." one of the demonstrators, On grounds that secrecy shows their seriousness about ' sile, would set off a spiraling new arms race. Now attention out in the cold for two hours outnumbered the demon- Apology Given commented of people driving wanting to make progress in the negotiations, both delega- has turned to the MIRV, or multiple independently targetable and read the names of Viet- strators more then two Edward Rogers, who intro- by with their lights on in sup- tions have been telling newsmen no word will be put out > re-entry vehicle, which will enable one. missile to deliver nam War dead from New Jer- to one, and a rally in the col- duced the reading of the port of President Richard about the substance of the talks while they are under way. several warheads, each capable of heading for a different sey outside the Friends Meet- lege gymnasium in the eve- names of New Jersey GIs Nixon's policy, "They don't The no-talk edict on the American side was reportedly . target. These are in the testing stage.' ing House. ning. ' killed in Vietnam, prefaced understand that we support the boys in Vietnam too. We just want them home." (See Related Story Page 3) The demonstrators at the Peace March Sparks New Friends Meeting House alter- nately stood quietly in a cir- cle and walked around the Quaker Cemetery to keep warm in the cold fall air. Controversy Over Conduct Most of the protesters were well - dressed, middle aged By JOSEPH E. MOHBAT were destroyed in Vietnam by fringe group of the antiwar — only two in connection with residents of the Red Bank WASHINGTON (AP) — this government.