Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 2-27-1969 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1969). Winona Daily News. 846. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/846 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE RIVER Today . 6.29 Sell-E-Phone Crest 1965 . .. 5.38 20.75 Want Ad 7 1952 . 5.81 17.93 Number Is 3321! 1951 . 5.61 17.35 Defense Given Chance to Talk Apollo 9 Launch Delayed CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) Wednesday. been termed the most complex Dr. Charles A. Berry, chief a sore throat and nasal conges- —The space agency today post- There was concern at the time man in space flight ever at- astronaut physician, reported tion early Wednesday. Scott and poned the Apollo 9 launching that the launching might have tempted. At Sirhan Trial Wednesday that McDivitt, Scott Schweickart checked in with the LOS ANGELES (AP) three days, from Friday until to be delayed anywhere from The countdown on the giant and Schweickart were physical- - The Monday, because of colds suf- one to five days because of the Saturn 5 rocket and spacecraft, ly exhausted from the training same symptoms later, but Ber- case of the people vs. Sirhan illnesses. Bishara Sirhan, prisoner No. fered by the three astronauts which had progressed on sched- for the flight, termed the most ry did not believe they caught 718486 who are to fly the 10-day earth The astronauts took medicine, ule, was to continue down to complex manned mission ever, the colds from McDivitt but that , Arab partisan and assas- mission. drank plenty of liquids and rest- sin of Robert F. Kennedy, is orbit nine hours before the original attempted. all three got them from th* The launch was reset for 10 ed 12 hours Wednesday night. planned liftoff and then will be Berry said he same source. complete. Now it's the defense's wanted the men turn. a.m. CST 'Monday. They awoke in "good spirits" held until Monday. to be physically and mentally McDivitt and Scott felt well The decision was made after today and underwent a 45-min- It was the first time after 18 ready for the journey in which enough in the afternoon to re- Through Sirhan himself , his ute medical exam. mother and two of his brothers doctors examined the three as- US. man-in-space flights that a they are to test the lunar mod- hearse in a spacecraft trainer. , tronauts, Air Force Cols. James After the thorough throat and launching had been delayed by ule (LEM), the bug-like vehicle But Schweickart remained in plus psychiatrists and psycholo- ^ gist witnesses, the defense will A. McDivitt and David R. Scott nasal exam, the doctors pro- illness. Many launchings have designed to land two men on the the crew quarters. try beginning Friday to show and ci-v i I i an Russell L. nounced the pilots improved but been postponed by technical and moon. Schweickart plans a two- All three took decongestants, that Sirhan didn't have the mind Schweickart. felt it wise to delay the flight to mechanical problems. hour spaceywalk. antihistamines and vitamin C to devise a mature The trio came down with sore give them plenty of time to re- Exhaustion as much as the McDivitt, the Apollo 9 com- tablets and were advised to rest and mean- throats and stuffy noses cover and to rest for what has ingful plot against the senator's colds was a factor. mander, was the first to report and drink plenty of liquids. life. There is no dispute that Sir- BUT IS THIS THE END? han, 24, a Jordanian brought to this country as a boy, mortally ¦wounded Kennedy last June 5 just after the New York Senator claimed victory in California 's Democratic presidential pri- mary. Premeditation is the key to a Enemy Threat to Saigon Eases first degree murder conviction in California. Diminished re- SAIGON CAP) — The new en- biggest effort in nine months. : tacks by naore than .1,000 enemy alry Division guarding the Cam- That phase, the experts say, is sponsibility—incapability to con- emy offensive against Saigon "The over-all intensity was soldiers on bases 15 to 20 nriiles bodian border north of Saigon imminent and will last 10 days. sider actions maturely—is a de- eased today, but U.S. intelli- less than the previous night," north of Saigon. admitted that three y regiments But the real target is believed to fense which could bring a-ver- gence officers thought there an American communique said. Working out from Bien Hoa, of the North Vietnamese 5th Di- be villages where the govern- dict of second degree murder or would be more. Elsewhere ' 'No significant enemy ground one of the largest air bases in vision slipped past their, de: ment', pacification program has manslaughter. DAD WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT VIEW . Pat across South Vietnam, the Viet probes were reported." Vietnam, allied troops swept the fenses to fight around Bien Hoa tak7e"il 'hold. The theory is that In California the jury sets the McDivitt, 8, and his sister, Ann, 10, hold up a globe trying Cong and . North Vietnamese blasted villages and fields out- and neighboring bases; theejiemy strategists expect the penalty for first degree murder earth will look to their dad, Col. James A, Mc- made more rocket and mortar This was in sharp contrast to side the base after day-long U.S. military analysts said the ¦with to see how U.$. 77and South Vietnamese only two choices—-life in Divitt, Apollo 9 flight commander when the spacecraft orbits attacks on some 50 towns and Wednesday, when. U.S. and fighting and encountered no second phase of whatvthey-see commands to pull troops ia to prison or death in San Quentin's McDivitt family will watch the launch at allied bases. South Vietnamese troops, m e a n i h g f u 1 resistance, a as a month-long enemy • offen- defend the cities—as they did pea-green gas chamber. the earth. The their home near the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, It was the fifth day of the ene- backed up by bomb and napalm spokesman said. sive will be directed at the capi- Wednesday when they brought The state has not formal^ spring offensive and their spewing aircraft, repelled at- Officers from the 1st Air Cav- tal and other population centers. in;reinforcements for Bien Hoa rested its case but it has no Texas. (AP Photofax) my's more witnesses. —and the enemy can then move The prosecution built its case into the;kreas left with little or for premeditation through 56 no protection. witnesses in nine days. It opened with the . The enemy's ultimate objec- testimony of the Nixon Hails Determination tive, the experts say, is to weak- people near the senator when Sirhan opened fire with a little en support for the Saigon gov- black .22-caliber ernment,,' U.S. officials say the pistol. It closed ^ ^ enemy. will7 make some gains with the county coroner who said the murder gun was almost Of Residents o^^ but at^bigh price. than it is to- triumphant march, but a group of those from the last American touching the senator's head BERLIN (AP) — President never more firm to visit West Berlin, Casualty figures from the lat- when the trigger was pulled. Nixon made a wide swing day." of students added a sour note as President est offensive pushed the number the procession passed the John F. Kennedy, who electri- There was testimony in be- through the outpost city of West greeted fied a crowd of more than a mil- of Americans killed since the today to show America's The crowd of wor&ers bombed-out Kaiser Wilhelm. Me- start of vthe Paris peace talks tween that Sirhan practiced Berlin with a long burst now a monu- lion in the city's central square shooting at two gunnery ranges concern for its freedom . The the President morial Church, last May to more than 9,009. At , of applause as he appeared and ment to peace. with his emotional declaration: that he told an acquaintance he West Berliners gave him a rous- ein Berliner (I am a least 300 Americans are be- then interrupted his speech fre- The students shouted a few "Ich bin lieved to have died in the fight- planned to kill Kennedy, that he ing welcome. noisy approv- Berliner)—All free men, wher- looked over the Ambassador Ho- "Our commitment to the free- quently with their Sieg Heils and other uncompli- ing since Sunday, the day the al. yy : remarks as the Presi- ever they may live, are citizens tel two days before the deed, dom of Berlin," Nixon told a mentary of Berlin." enemy launched the offensive; and that he lurked in wait as the cheering crowd of 6,000 at an ! Nixon's trip through the city, dent passed, pelted policemen guarded by some 7,000 nail-filled snowballs and Mayor Klaus Schuetz toldTNix- A South Vietnamese spokes- senator left a victory celebra- electrical appliance factory, closely with on that although he was man said that from Sunday until tion, "has never been more steady, Berlin policemen, was almost a threw some paint into the ..