News stories from Sunday July 13, 1975
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- As the countdown began for the first Soviet-American space mission, an official at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida disclosed that the Soviet Union and the United States expected to begin negotiations this fall for more ambitious joint flights in the early 1980s. George Low, deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said the next joint mission would probably involve an American space shuttle, now under development, to a Soviet Salyut space station. The shuttle could carry astronauts to work in the earth-orbiting space station. [New York Times]
- Russians are being pointedly reminded by the Soviet press that the Soviet Union has a longer standing claim to space eminence than the United States. Pravda, the Communist party newspaper, noted that the Soviet Union was the forerunner in the early manned-space exploration and attributed this to its Marxist ideology. [New York Times]
- After months of hectic effort on both sides of the Atlantic to find the answer to last fall's perplexing discovery of two atomic particles that fit into no generally accepted theory, a group in Germany believes it may have found the answer. The group has identified an intermediate particle that conforms to the supposed existence of a hypothetical property of some atomic fragments called charm. The discovery was made as physicists throughout the world, after repeated failure to confirm its existence, had almost abandoned the charm hypothesis as an explanation for last fall's discoveries. [New York Times]
- Israeli planes attacked the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon twice today, and Palestinian guerrillas retaliated with rocket attacks on Israeli communities near the border. Israeli fighter-bombers attacked the Ein al Helweli camp, which shelters about 20,000 refugees just south of the southern Lebanese port city of Saida. [New York Times]