Britain Seeks Global Monetary Overhaul in wake of Nixon
Britain plans talks next spring to overhaul the world currency system. Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s Labor government wants negotiations after Nixon takes office. Bankers in Geneva urge new exchange rates to replace those set 24 years ago and avoid recurring dollar and pound instability. Roy Jenkins signaled interest in such a conference as soon as possible.
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Truman Health Rumors Rebut Parkinson Claim
Kansas City report quotes Dr. Wallace D. Graham denying former President Harry S Truman has Parkinson's disease. Graham says Truman is in fine health and still walks mornings. Aide Janne Levey notes Graham sought Parkinson's treatment and possible L-dopa, but no diagnosis is confirmed.
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Upton Sinclair Dies at 90 After Ilustrated Life of Reform
Crusading author Upton Beall Sinclair has died at 90 in a New Jersey nursing home. A Pulitzer Prize winner in 1943 for Dragon's Teeth, he fought for social reform through more than 80 works, from The Jungle to essays and plays. Born in Baltimore in 1878, he lived a life of political struggle, multiple marriages, and global readership across 60 languages.
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Heavy fighting in DMZ as Marines clash with Communists
United States Marines and South Vietnamese troops fought Communist forces on two fronts inside the DMZ for the first time since the halt of bombing on November 1. Reinforcements, air and naval support were requested as patrols pressed to locate gun positions. Casualty reports were incomplete, with three Communists killed and one captured while allied losses remained unreported.
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More Air Guards To Be Released This Christmas
Washington reports an additional 1,325 Air National Guardsmen will be released from active duty by December 20 after Pueblo crisis mobilizations. The group forms part of 16,000 called up earlier, with most slated for release next spring and early summer. Some units and individuals may depart sooner in special cases. About 3,000 are in Vietnam.
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Visitors view rare animals in cage once gorilla exhibit
In St Paul Minnesota visitors at Como Park Zoo toured a rare animal display in a cage formerly used for a gorilla. The metropolitan zoo emergency committee used the cage to dramatize the zoo's funding crisis, with a $22,000 budget cut cited.
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