Allied Forces Push North Vietnamese From Cambodian Border
Allied warplanes artillery and troops pursued a North Vietnamese battalion retreating into Cambodia after an all day border clash near Tuyen Binh. U.S. and South Vietnamese casualties topped 700 with 39,442 Americans killed, 259,828 wounded and 1,359 missing or captured. The action included shelling into Vietnam from Cambodia and an ambush against Viet Cong sampans, sinking 44 boats.
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Saigon
APT
Cambodia
U.S
Tuyen Binh
Green Berets
Bu Prang
United Nations
Washington
Republic of Vietnam
Cease-Fires Announced For Holidays
Saigon declares 24 hour Christmas and New Year truces for South Vietnam from 6 p.m. Dec 24 to 6 p.m. Dec 25 and from 6 p.m. Dec 31 to 6 p.m. Jan 1. President Thieu announced after talks with U.S. Ambassador Bunker. No word on a North Vietnamese Viet Cong ceasefire.
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Saigon
UPN
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Ho Chi Minh
Thieu
U.S
Quarantined Scientist Raises Contamination Fears
Space Center Houston reports possible exposure after Apollo 12 containment break. Geologist Russell Harmon, among seven scientists and four technicians in isolation, disclosed a glove tear may have let lunar material escape. He estimated up to thirty people could be exposed, while others caution most exposed were quarantined and further checks underway.
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Space Center
Houston
UPS
Earth
Space Agency
Russell Harmon
Harmon
Faith in Laconia Clerk Amid Embezzlement Trial
Nellie Wiggin, 76, town clerk of Laconia New Hampshire for 15 years, goes on trial for allegedly embezzling 27142 from the city treasury. A Belknap County jury of eight men and two women is seated after an indictment covering 1963 to 1968. Residents rallied to bond her after the surety refused, allowing her to continue in office.
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Laconia
N.H
UPI
Nellie Wiggin
Belknap County Superior Court
Wiggin
Panther Leader Arrested For Threats To Kill Nixon
Black Panther chief David Hilliard was arrested by Secret Service agents in San Francisco for a federal charge of threatening the life of President Nixon. He was arraigned before Judge Stanley Weigel, jailed on 30000 bail, with plea date set for December 17.
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San Francisco
UPI
Black Panther
David Hilliard
Richard Nixon
Secret Service
Hilliard
U.S. District Court
Stanley Weigel
Black Panther Party
United States
Oregon
Ralph Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Weigel
World War II Bomber Found on Indonesian Mountain
Indonesian and U.S. authorities probe reports peasants found a four engine bomber's wreckage on Mt Latimodjong in Celebes with crew skeletons inside. A dogtag bears the name Frank Lan Bean, serial 11051 812 42 430, and a ring reads Air Corps Advance Flying School 1940. The plane is identified as a B24 Liberator linked to Biak and Lake Sentani airfields.
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Jakarta
UPI
U.S
Celebes
Makassar
Mt. Latimodjong
Here
Frank Lan Bean
Air Corps Advance Flying School
Col
John Minnich
U. S
Army Air Corps
Biak
Lake Sentani
New Guinea
West Irian
Indonesia
Warsaw Pact Leaders Weigh West Germany Ties
As Moscow hosts seven Warsaw Pact leaders, Poland under Gomulka shifts toward a kinder stance with West Germany. Brandt earns Polish trust, seeks border realism on Oder Neisse, and offers talks. Poles seek Western currency, noting West Germany credits to Romania and Yugoslavia.
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Moscow
West Germany
Willy Brandt
Wladislaw Gomulka
Poland
Communist Party
Soviet Union
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Bonn
Brandt
Oder-Neisse
Germany
Oder- Neisse
Yugoslavia
TV films shown in Chicago protests riot trial
In Chicago the 1968 Democratic Convention protest trial heard two TV film screenings of the Hilton confrontation. The volume was heightened for the jury, drawing prosecutor claims of a climactic riot segment while defense called the move a trick. The judge barred a later film due to missing cameraman. defense demands high ranking officials as witnesses.
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Chicago
UPI
Conrad Hilton
Roger Cubbage
U.S. Justice Department
LBJ
William Kunstler
Michigan Avenue
U.S
Richard Schultz
U.S. District Court
Julius J. Hoffman
Kunstler
Leonard Weinglass
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard J. Daley
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
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Moon Rock Laboratory
Kemmerer
Clerk
Panther
Nixon
Charles Garry
SWIFT
Walker
Red Bloc
Phil Newsom
Bennington, VT
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United Press International
Vermont
Otte
Main ST. North Adams
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Manchester Center
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