NAACP Loses Suit on Amarillo High School Site
Federal Judge Halbert Woodward denied the Amarillo NAACP injunction to block construction of Amarillo High School at a southwest site near Puckett Place. The decision upheld the district’s plan to build new facilities, noting current enrollments and residential patterns explain racial distribution and congestion.
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Amarillo Independent
Halbert O. Woodward
Amarillo
NAACP
Amarillo High School
U.S. District Clerks Office
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
AHS
Puckett Place
Walter Wolfram
Woodward
U.S. District Court
R. A
Bob” Wilson
Wolfram
Bob Ashworth
Richard Jones
Caprock
Palo Duro
Tuscosa
Tascosa
Tascosa High School
Moscow court condemns two hijackers to death in failed plot
A Moscow court sentenced two men to death and nine others to prison for attempting to hijack a plane to Finland. Ten defendants were Jews including leaders Dymshits and Kuznetsov. Israel condemned the verdicts as blood stained, with Prime Minister Meir denouncing Soviet anti Semitism as the protests at the Wailing Wall grew.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Finland
Mark Dymshits
Edward Kuznetsov
Israel
Golda Meir
Wailing Wall
Old Jerusalem
Dymshits
Kuznetsov
Soviet Union
Yuri Fyodorov
Scandinavia
Tass
Supreme Court of
Russian Federation
Boris Penson
Israel Zalmonson
Mendel Bodny Penson
Zalmonson
Bodny
Iosif Mandelyevich
Alexei Murzhenko
Arikhnokh
Anatoly Altman
Sylvia Zalmonson
Aeroflot
Dymshus
Christmas edition joins Globe-Times readers in Amarillo
Today Amarillo Daily News subscribers receive a joint Christmas issue with Globe-Times content. The Globe-Times is not published today, allowing staff to observe the holiday while some regular features from both papers appear in the combined edition.
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Amarillo Daily News
Globe-Times
Globe - Times
Bethlehem observes Christmas under Israeli guard
In Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers guard the holy site as Bishop James Joseph Bertritti leads his first Christmas Mass as Jerusalem patriarch. Pilgrims from Lebanon, Egypt and Kuwait gather at Manger Square while 200 U S Christians sing carols and attend services in Shepherds Field.
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Bethlehem
Holy Land
Jesus Christ
Manger Square
Church of the Nativity
James Joseph Bertritti
Jerusalem
Msgr
Alberto Gori
Lebanon
Egypt
Kuwait
United States
Shepherds Field
Senators Probe Connally Business Past for Treasury Post
A small group of liberal Democratic senators probes former Texas Governor John B. Connally for conflicts of interest in oil and banking as his Treasury nomination faces scrutiny. Proxmire seeks oil policy positions and tax shifts, while reporters glimpse Nixon administration hints amid high unemployment and inflation.
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Washington
Texas
John B. Connally
Secretary of the Treasury
Connally
Sid Richardson
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Russell Long
D-La
Ate Finance Committee
Proxmire
Joint Economic Committee
Treasury
Nixon
Gifts of Hope and Joy: Wise Visitors in the Stable
In a humble stable the shepherds and two or three kings arrive bearing frankincense, myrrh, and gold rings. The attending physician is none, as time follows divine plan to bring hope and peace to humanity. Jack Clark.
Christmas cease fires ease war in South Vietnam
UPI reports a 24 hour Christmas ceasefire by U S and South Vietnamese forces with no American deaths in Vietnam for the first 24 hours of the truce. A Cambodian rocket attack killed nine and wounded 21 in Phnom Penh while clashes continued in Cambodia and Laos. Weekly U S toll in Saigon fell to 23 killed and 160 wounded, the lowest in over five years.
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Saigon
UPI
South Vietnam
Cambodia
U.S
Laos
Phnom Penh
Costs ease slows inflation but workers face loss
Government data show November price rise at 0.3 percent with food deflation driving moderation. Despite slower inflation, real wages fell as earnings declined and purchasing power dropped 0.8 percent, while unemployment remains high at 4.6 million.
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Washington
White House
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Paul McCracken
Nixon
Joel Popkin
Bureau
McCracken
U.S
NORAD Sights Santa and Sleigh Near North Pole
NORAD reports sighting a sleigh with eight or nine reindeer above the North Pole and confirms the Santa escort mission across the continent. Interceptors are scrambled for a visual check while 114000 personnel monitor the progress from east to west as night falls.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
North American Air Defense Command
North Pole
NORAD
Combat Operations Center
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Astro Guide
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