Christmas Invasion Tour Buoys Vietnam GIs
Bob Hope leads a 69 member unit on the 15th annual Christmas tour to entertain servicemen in Vietnam Guam Thailand and the Philippines. Evangelist Billy Graham Francis Cardinal Spellman and four Congress members join in religious services and visits. Chris Noel draws troops with radio program and Steinbeck also visits. Cease fires declared but many troops stand watch.
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Bob Gassaway
Saigon
South Vietnam
Vietnam
Bob Hope
Billye Graham
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Evangelist Graham
New York
Hope
Los Angeles
Phyllis Diller
Joey Heatherton
Anita Bryant
Les Brown
Guam
Thailand
Philippines
Earle Johnson
Chris Noel
Armed Forces
John Steinbeck
Congress
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Joseph Y. Resnick
D-N.y
Billie Sol Estes Transferred to Sandstone Prison
Convicted Texas financier Billie Sol Estes has been moved from Leavenworth to the federal prison at Sandstone Minnesota to serve his 15 year term. Warden John Norton called the transfer routine and said the facility is a medium security prison.
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Sandstone, Minn
Texas
Billie Sol Estes
Sandstone
John Norton
Estes
Leavenworth Federal
Kansas
U.S. Bureau of Prisons
Washington
Norton
Eastcentral
Minnesota
Air Force sergeant indicted on espionage with Soviet diplomat
Indictment names Air Force sergeant Herbert W. Boeckenhaupt 24 of Pentagon service in 1965 1966 for conspiring with a Soviet diplomat to commit espionage. FBI arrested him October 31 at March Air Force Base Riverside California. Also in court, Retired Lt. Col. William H. Whalen pleaded guilty to conspiring to obtain defense secrets for the Soviet Union. The Whalen espionage count was dropped at the government's request. Napoleon began the Arch of Triumph in Paris in 1806 and it was completed about 1836.
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Alexandria
Pentagon
Herbert W. Boeckenhaupt
FBI
March Air Force Base
Riverside
Calif
U.S
Army
William Henry Whalen
Soviet Union
Whalen
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