Christmas Peace Across Borders In Holiday Observances
Christians worldwide mark Christmas amid war zones and tension. American troops abroad, Belfast children flown to London, and Arabs visiting Bethlehem join in religious ceremonies as 35 000 pilgrims prepare for midnight mass. President Nixon urges universal goodwill and peace.
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Vietnam
Belfast
London
Bethlehem
Christ
Israel
Church of the Nativity
Jesus
Governor and wife to visit Stillwater prison
Gov. and Mrs. Wendell Anderson along with other state officials will join inmates at Stillwater State Prison for a Christmas Eve holiday entertainment program.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Wendell Anderson
Stillwater State Prison
Hope says Reds would free POWs if pullout date set
Comedian Bob Hope relayed a North Vietnamese official told him American prisoners could be released tomorrow if President Nixon sets a date for total U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam. Hope spoke after a 90 minute talk with Nguyen Van Thanh, first secretary of the North Vietnamese Embassy in Vientiane, Laos. The seven point plan proposed at the Paris talks last July remains rejected by the Nixon administration.
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Paris
Nixon
Judge bars waste discharges into non navigable waters ruling broad permit halt
Federal Judge Aubrey E. Robinson Jr declares all waste discharges into non navigable waterways illegal and blocks EPA and Army Corps permits without environmental impact studies. About 20,000 permit applications face review as the Grand River case drives a broad interpretation of navigability.
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Washington
Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr
Kalur and Large
Army Corps of Engineers
Secretary of the Army
Environmental Protection Agency
Christmas ceasefire holds in South Vietnam amid air strikes
American and South Vietnamese forces halt operations for a 24 hour Christmas truce while U S warplanes strike another North Vietnamese radar site. Viet Cong attacks during the ceasefire kill three Saigon soldiers and wound six as no U S forces were hit. In Belfast British troops stay on full alert after Prime Minister Heath visit with sporadic gunfire on patrols.
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South Vietnam
Long Binh
Saigon
Bob Hope
Johnny Grant
Martha Raye
U.S
North Vietnam
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Edward Heath
Regional Development Act Ruled Constitutional in Minnesota
A district judge ruled the 1969 Minnesota Regional Development Act constitutional, dismissing a Beltrami County suit by the Township Officers Association and the Committee for the Preservation of Local Government. The case challenged Region 2 covering Beltrami and surrounding counties and potential tax levy powers for regional funds.
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ST. Paul, Minn
J. Jerome Plunkett
Beltrami County
Township Officers’ Association of
Committee For the Preservation of
Beltrami
Clearwater
Hubbard
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Minnesota
Wendell Anderson
Theere
Regional Commission
Plunkett
Living Cost Council Rejects Interest Rate Controls
The Cost of Living Council refused to impose controls on interest rates for now and will rely on voluntary restraints later. Rep. Wright Patman criticized the move as a slam to customers and urged action under the Economic Stabilization Act. The same day the Postal Service won permission to raise third class mail rates by 23.9 percent, pending inflation conditions. Ford Motor Co applied for a 1.5 percent price rise on cars and trucks, the second Phase 2 increase after a 2.9 percent approval last month.
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Washington
Cost of Living Council
House Banking and Currency Committee
Wright Patman
Dtex
Council
U.S. Postal Service
Postal Service
Nixon
The
Price Commission
Jerome R. Waldie
D-Calif
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Ford
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Man Charged In Threat to Nixon In Conn Arrest
Michael James Brody Jr. who claimed in January 1970 to give away a $26 million inheritance was arrested in South Norwalk Connecticut on Thursday and charged with threatening the life of President Nixon.
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Michael James Brody Jr
South Norwalk
Conn
Nixon
City adopts flood plain ordinance after NFN approval
Austin City Council formally adopts a flood plain ordinance designating a floodway and flood fringe to regulate development. The measure, tied to HUD flood insurance eligibility, allows flood proofing beyond fill and requires clear labeling of flood hazard areas on plats.
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Judy McDermott
Austin
Dept. of Natural Resources
Red Cedar River
Dobbins
Turtle Creek
Dept. of Housing and Urban
Kermit Hoversten
Board of Adjustment
City Council
Hoffa Reunited With Ailing Wife After Prison Release
James R. Hoffa the former Teamsters leader was freed by President Nixon and reunited with his family at his daughter's home in Glendale. Josephine Hoffa, who recently suffered a heart attack and a mild seizure, said she felt fine and expressed Christmas happiness. Hoffa had served four years and nine months of a 13 year term for jury tampering and mail fraud.
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ST. Louis
James St. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Nixon
Josephine Hoffa
Glendale
Mrs. Hoffa
Lewisburg
Early Holiday Road Toll Reaches 39 Across Nation
Traffic accidents around the nation claimed 39 lives during the early hours of the Christmas holiday weekend. Rain and snow slowed travel in the Far West while the upper Mississippi Valley saw light precipitation. The death count runs from 6 p.m. Thursday to midnight Sunday.
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Associated Press
Far West
Mississippi Valley
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