rocket can function in a vacuum as in an atmosphere. The Times regrets the error." Goddard had died in 1945. The Soviet Union's unmanned lunar probe Luna 15 entered lunar orbit two days ahead of the manned American Apollo 11 mission. Ahmad Rageh Namer and his two adult sons, Hussein and Abdo, were all found not guilty of charges that they had conspired to assassinate then-President-Elect Richard Nixon in November 1968. The three men were acquitted by a New York State Supreme Court jury of three charges, but were found guilty of being in possession of switchblade knives. Their defense attorney made the case that the informant who had accused them of conspiring to assassinate Nixon was motivated by a grudge that he held against Namer and his family. July 18, 1969 (Friday) Nineteen young teenagers drowned in France while wading in the Loire River near the village of Juigné-sur-Loire. The group, consisting of 13- and 14-year-old children from a group of sixty at a recreation center in the town of Angers, had been walking in shallow waters when the gravel riverbed beneath them gave way and swept them downstream. El Salvador and Honduras agreed to a ceasefire to halt the "Football War" after 100 hours of fighting, in a pact brokered by the Organization of American States. The cessation of hostilities took place at 10:00 in the evening local time (0700 UTC July 19). U.S. President Nixon's speechwriter, William Safire, submitted a memo to White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, titled "In Event of Moon Disaster". Although several unmanned spacecraft had landed on the Moon, none had ever departed the Moon, and there was uncertainty over whether the engines of the lunar lander could provide enough thrust to propel it back into orbit. The memo outlined recommendations, including a draft of prepared remarks for the President to deliver, if astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin were unable to bring the lunar module back off of the Moon after landing. The existence of the memo, drafted at Haldeman's request on the advice of former astronaut Frank Borman, would not be revealed for nearly 30 years, until a Los Angeles Times reporter, Jim Mann, ran across the correspondence in the National Archives. Fortunately, Nixon never had to deliver remarks that would have started "Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on