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...reduction in Galley's sentence was announced at Fort McPherson outside Atlanta, where Charlie Company's commander, Captain Ernest L. Medina, is in the second week of his long-awaited court-martial. Army prosecutors are attempting to convict Medina of command responsibility for what went on in the ill-fated village. Relaxed and apparently unconcerned as the men who once served under him take the stand to testify for the prosecution, Medina passes his courtroom time drawing doodles of the newsmen covering his trial. As Medina and Calley await the results of the legal proceedings against them...
...Londonderry. When 1,300 British troops attempted to dismantle the recently rebuilt Derry barricades, which since 1969 have symbolized the Catholics' determination to defend themselves, residents responded with rioting and random rifle fire. Two moderate M.P.s, trying to restore order, were arrested for "failing to move on the command of a member of Her Majesty's forces." Next day, 30 leading Londonderry Catholics resigned from civic bodies in a total withdrawal of the city's Catholic community from public life...
Scott, Irwin and Command Module Pilot Al Worden did not have to undergo a 21-day postflight quarantine. But they used almost every spare moment to help in the preliminary rock analysis. They were especially interested in Scott's white, coarse-grained "Genesis rock"-which may be a fragment of the moon's original 4.6 billion-year-old crust. Indeed, the scientific dividends from Apollo 15 were proving to be so great that NASA announced that it was giving a berth to astronaut-geologist Harrison Schmitt on the final scheduled moon voyage, Apollo 17, next year. Thus...
...some quarters, there is scant pity for the fallen stars. "My heart doesn't bleed for the guy who was making $100,000 and is reduced to $40,000," says one screenwriter. Few worry that Charlton Heston, who used to command a cool million a picture, now has to make do with $300,000. "There aren't stars any more. We're all up for grabs," says Sally Kellerman, who made her name in MASH, but lives in a "regular-size house with not enough view to be depressing. From here...
Good Burn. Just before Endeavour disappeared behind the moon on its 74th revolution, ground controllers gave it a "go" for one more important maneuver: firing the command ship's big 20,500-lb.-thrust engine to kick it out of lunar orbit. "Set your sails for home," said Mission Control. "We're predicting good weather, a strong tailwind, and we'll be waiting on the docks." Thirty-five minutes later, as Endeavour re-emerged and regained radio contact, Scott gave the happy word. The 2 min. 21 sec. burn had been flawless. Said Scott: "Endeavour...