Nixon huddles with advisers before Brandt summit in Florida
President Nixon meets with top advisers at Key Biscayne to prep for a two day talks with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt at the Florida White House. Brandt arrives for five hours of consultations on European and global issues ahead of Nixon’s planned visits to Peking and Moscow.
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Willy Brandt
Key Biscayne, Fla
UPI
Florida White House
Brandt
Bayside Villa
Peking
Moscow
Ostopolitik
Europe
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
Jelke heir held for mental tests
Michael J. Brody the heir to an oleomargarine fortune faced mental tests at Fairfield Hills State Hospital after being rearrested on charges of threatening President Nixon and burning his sister’s Norwalk home. Bail was raised to 100000, with a Jan. 3 court hearing. authorities cited a call to the Secret Service threatening Nixon and the destruction of the sister’s nine room house. Brody earlier drew headlines by promising to give away 25 million and chartering a Jamaica honeymoon flight. The era of the case links back to his Scarsdale inheritance and prior drug use admission. In Washington the Supreme Court said it will hear death penalty challenges after adding two new justices on Jan. 7, with arguments set for Jan. 17.
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Fairfield Hills State Hospital
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Scarsdale
N.Y
Washington
Supreme Court
Illinois
Florida
Texas
Georgia
California
Bengali government calls to halt reprisals after war
The new Bangla Desh government urged Bengalis to stop reprisals against non Bengalis following India's victory in the India Pakistan war. Authorities said aid would be provided but no steps would be taken to halt violence at the front, while residents report mass killings and a blockade hindering food and medicine.
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Bangla Desh
India
Pakistan
People’s Republic of
UPI
Kenneth J. Braddick
Dacca
D. P. Dhar
Dhar
O'Donnell dies after leading first Tokyo bombing raid
Gen Emmett Rosie O'Donnell Jr. dies at age 57 in McLean Virginia from coronary arrest. He led the first B29 bombing raid on Tokyo in World War II and rose to command the Far East Air Force Bomber Command in Korea. A U.S. Military Academy graduate he was praised by President Kennedy for a career in the Air Force. Funeral services set for Fort Myer Virginia with burial at the Air Force Academy.
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Tokyo
Mclean, Va
UPI
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Rosie’’ O'Donnell Jr
U.S. Air Force
O'Donnell
Far East
U.S. Military Academy
O'Donnel
Brooklyn
N.Y
John F. Kennedy
Fort Myer
Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs
Colo
Vergennes Simmonds lands $1 million B-1 fuel system contract
Simmonds Precision Products Inc. Vergennes branch will develop and manufacture an advanced fuel management and center-of-gravity control system for the Air Force B-1 bomber. The $1 million contract covers fuel quantity and location control to stabilize the aircraft’s center of gravity during wing sweep and flight modes, using intra-tank fuel transfer.
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Simmonds Precision Products Inc
Tarrytown
N.Y
North American Rockwell
Simmonds
Fire injures 27-year-old Philadelphia man in Rutland blaze
A Christmas morning fire in a three story Rutland apartment building left Calvin Green with first and second degree burns and minor injuries to three others including a city fireman and a 2-year-old. Thirty-four firefighters battled the blaze started by a overheated tea kettle and fuel can explosion as residents fled the burning building. Separately in Montpelier Rep Wayne Jameson introduced a resolution to require the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of each daily House session.
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Calvin Green
Montpelier
Wayne W. Jameson
112
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U.S
House of Representatives
House
Aides Walk Off at Glendale Home In Schenectady
In Schenectady County Glendale Home, the entire afternoon aide shift abandoned about 500 residents in protest of an aide’s suspension for unauthorized absence. 23 aides were suspended. social workers were called in to cover the emergency as officials cited staffing and care concerns.
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Schenectady County
Glendale
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Richard Staszak
DNR Eyes Purchase of Deliso Land for Mt Greylock Ski Resort
The state Department of Natural Resources may buy and develop the 300 plus acre Deliso land along West Mountain Road at the base of Saddle Ball Mountain for a major ski resort. Joseph J. Deliso, Springfield industrialist, has owned the tract for almost five years. In Pittsfield, the Bradford Block rehabilitation will begin with a January 9 ribbon cutting to create a 90 unit elderly housing facility funded by a $1.9 million project overseen by Berkshire Housing Development Corp. An estate sale in Clarksburg transfers the Hewat house on River Road Briggsville to John J. and Stefany A. Kocsis. Fred Fahey, longtime Pittsfield Boys’ Club associate, retires December 31 after 43 years with the club.
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State Department of Natural Resources
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Mt. Greylock
Saddle Ball Mountain
DNR
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Springfield
Joseph J. Deliso
Pittsfield
Bradford
North Street
Donald Exford
Berkshire Housing Development Corp
Corporation Council
Clarksburg
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Hewat
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Stefany A. Kocsis
Williamstown
River Road
Briggsville
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