Refugees Use Armor-Plated Bus to Breach Berlin Wall
Eight East German refugees driven by a contractor and his driver fled from Neugersdorf to West Berlin in an armored Soviet made bus. They rammed through three steel barriers at Babelsberg while guards fired, survives with minor injury from glass. The group reached Dreilinden and were taken to a reception center for interviews.
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Senator Byrd Satisfactory Condition at Baltimore Hospital
Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, age 75, was reported in satisfactory condition at Union Memorial Hospital after entering the facility last week. Hospital spokesmen decline to disclose the ailment. Byrd is a leading figure among Democrat Conservative ranks.
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Yule Search Fails To Find Lancaster Mother
Lancaster sheriff's department led a Christmas Day search for Virginia Wagner missing for a week. About 75 citizens joined the effort, with groups combing streets but uncovering no trace. Wagner, 35, mother of three including Scott, 11, Barbie, 10, and Tina, 8, left for a short ride to pick up Scott. car found abandoned on Main Street.
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President Kennedy Meets Advisers On Tax Policy
President Kennedy shifts from vacation to business in Florida and calls a conference on tax policy and the economy with top economic and financial advisers. Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon plans to join at Kennedy's oceanfront headquarters in Palm Beach while interrupting his vacation.
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Soviet citizens jailed for distributing Jehovah’s Witnesses material
Trad reports that Soviet citizens who handed out literature from the Jehovah’s Witnesses center in Brooklyn were sentenced to prison. In Oran Algeria six hundred refugees in a camp fell ill Tuesday, suspected food poisoning.
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Communists Mine Train Tragedy in South Vietnam
South Viet Nam officials report seven killed and fifteen injured when guerrillas mined a holiday train 390 miles north of Saigon, near Hue. The blast derailed one car and overturned two others, endangering passengers.
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Hoffa attacks judge and prosecutor in Nashville trial
Teamsters Union President James R. Hoffa criticizes Judge William Miller and prosecutor James Neal for alleged prejudice and tactics in the Taft Hartley Act case tied to Commercial Carriers, Inc. He accuses Attorney General Kennedy of attempting to shift venue. In Miami, a mass exodus of Cuban prisoners relatives heads to south Florida as hundreds of Russians leave Havana aboard the Admiral Nasimov.
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National Guard to Launch Aggressive Recruitment Drive
Washington reports the Army National Guard plans a vigorous recruiting push in the new year to reach a 400000 strength target, now about 25000 short, aiming to prove Secretary McNamara wrong about feasibility. Higher standards have been emphasized after past proposals to cut Guard and Reserve strength.
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Brinks Hijacking Clues Found in Des Plaines Snow
Police push hunt for clues in the Christmas Eve Brink's armored truck hijacking near Des Plaines. Hooded robbers abducted the driver and stole an estimated 100000 dollars from 35 firms. Footprints tire tracks and a chauffeur cap plus a toy police badge aided investigators.
NATO asks Japan halt pipe exports to Soviet oil sector
The United States and NATO allies pressed Japan to stop exporting steel pipes to the Soviet Union for use in Russia's oil industry, citing a decision by NATO. Kyodo News Service quoted government sources. officials declined to comment.
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Begin Talks On Kashmir Open Conference In Rawalpindi
An eight man Indian delegation reached Rawalpindi to negotiate a settlement of the Kashmir dispute. The conference opens Thursday with no preconditions cited by the Indian Foreign Office, following the India China border talks.
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Christmas Death Toll Rises Fast
The Christmas holiday saw about 800 deaths nationwide from traffic accidents fires and other mishaps. Traffic remained the leading killer with around 615 road fatalities during a 102 hour period ending at midnight Christmas. Snow and sleet worsened driving conditions across many states.
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Republicans Gain In Nation s Statehouses
Republicans scored net gains of about 150 seats in state legislatures in the Nov 6 election and ousted Democrats from control of both Senate and House in Pennsylvania Colorado and Utah. Democrats still hold both chambers in 26 states while Republicans command both in 19. The piece notes gains across the South and in Maryland and Georgia with a historic first for a Negro in Georgia’s Senate after reapportionment.
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Kennedy Grants Christmas Pardon to Fac tor known as Barber
Palm Beach Florida Kennedy issues a Christmas pardon for John Fac tor aka Jake the Barber a onetime Chicago underworld figure later philanthropist The 1943 mail fraud conviction is cleared and deportation to England ends The pardon signed by Kennedy at his vacation home follows a 1949 parole from Sandstone Minnesota Factor rose to prominence in 1933 amid a kidnap claim involving Roger Touhy Touhy served a long sentence and was later shotgunned to death days after his Chicago arrest
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Bill Rickard Injured In Auto Wreck
Bill Rickard 72 of Clifton was injured in an auto truck collision on Route 62. He remained in Holzer Hospital emergency room with undetermined injuries. Harold Bland of West Columbia, driver of the coal truck, was slightly hurt. The coal truck fire required Mason Fire Department response. Col: Mrs. Perle Mesta to speak in Columbus Jan 19 to Ohio Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs.
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Former UN Ambassador Warren R. Austin Dies at 85
Warren R. Austin, 85, former U. S. ambassador to the United Nations after World War II, died at his Burlington home. A Republican turned internationalist in the 1930s, he opposed U S entry to the League of Nations and served in the Senate from 1931 before leading the UN mission from 1946 to 1953, succeeded by Henry Cabot Lodge.
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