Poland Accepts Offer For Talks With Bonn
Bonn notes Poland is willing to begin talks on various issues as a response to Bonn's invitation. Premier Cyrankiewicz and the Polish government seek recognition of Poland’s western frontier at Oder Neisse as final and inviolable as a condition for normalization with West Germany. East German relations are noted as a factor in Warsaw’s strategy.
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Bonn
Gunter Harkort
Waclaw Piatkowski
West Germany
Poland
Willy Brandt
France
Konrad Adenauer
Brandt
Warsaw
Heinrich Box
Oder-Neisse Line
Hitler
Third Reich
East Germany
Walter Ulbricht
Jozef Cyrankiewicz
Pariament
Cyrankiewicz
Germany
Federal Republic
Oder
Neisse
Toll toll at 50 in air crash at Nha Trang
SAIGON AP The official death toll in Monday's crash of a South Vietnamese airliner at Nha Trang rose to 30 today. An additional 35 persons were injured, 15 of them children. The figures were not final and several persons were not accounted for. A government spokesman said it was not known yet how many of the dead and injured were aboard the plane and how many were on the ground.
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Saigon
Nha Trang
Thant Urges Broad Based Saigon Regime
United Nations Secretary-General U Thant called for a broad based national government in Vietnam as the first step toward peace, saying cease fires or elections were impossible under current conditions. He expressed optimism about East West relations and hopeful prospects for the 1970s despite ongoing Vietnam fighting.
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United Nations
U Thant
Vietnam
Thant
Middle East
Gunnar Jarring
West Germany
United States
Soviet Union
Christmas Truce Nears as Vietnam Ceasefire Looms
In Vietnam the cease-fire period nears with a three day Viet Cong truce set to begin at 1 am Wednesday local time. U S B52s staged heavy raids along the Cambodian border. South Vietnamese forces report a major clash with enemy troops near the Mekong Delta while B12 bombers dropped over 1000 tons of explosives near the border.
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Saigon
Vietnam
U.S
Pate
Mekong Delta
Canada Names New Envoy to U S in 1969 Shuffle
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau named Marcel Cadieux, 74, under secretary of state for external affairs, to be Canada's next ambassador to the United States. Cadieux will exchange posts with Albert Edgar Ritchie, ambassador in Washington for years. Cadieux is the first French Canadian to hold the U S post and is noted as a senior figure in Ottawa's foreign service.
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Ottawa
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Marcel Cadieux
Canada
United States
Cadieux
Albert Edgar Ritchie
Washington
Trudeau
Cad
Ieux
Ritchie
Foreign Career Service
Montreal
France
Quebec
Statehouse study proposes regional government plan
Massachusetts state Rep. John M. Quinlan proposes a special 12 district regional government system with central operation hubs in Barnstable Edgartown Fall River Brockton Boston Lawrence Lowell Fitchburg Worcester Springfield Greenfield and Pittsfield. A 1970 Legislature created commission would file mid 1971 recommendations amid urban pressure for regional solutions to pollution sewage disposal transit traffic and economic development.
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Boston
John M. Quinlan
Norwood
Massachusetts
Quinlan
Quinland
Kevin H. White
Metropolitan Council of Governments
Greater Boston
White
Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority
Metropolitan District Commission
Massachusetts Port Authority
Barnstable
Edgartown
Fall River
Brockton
Lawrence
Lowell
Fitchburg
Worcester
Springfield
Greenfield
Pittsfield
Registrar Warns On Holiday Drinking
Boston AP says Registrar Richard E. McLaughlin urges drivers to avoid alcohol during holiday travel. He notes past years show two thirds of fatal highway accidents between Christmas Eve and New Year’s involved drinking. The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority offers free coffee for drivers on New Year’s Eve.
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Boston
Registrar of Motor Vehicles
Richant E. McLaughlin
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
State bills seek age, pensions, and local funding shifts
Proposed measures would lower the drinking age to 18 and raise pensions to match recent raises for current officials, with the state covering community education costs for emotionally disturbed children. Other bills allow taxing the MBTA, raise state college tuition to 3500, and bar city police name tags.
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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
North Koreans Bar Plea To Return Hijacked Plane
North Korea refused to return the hijacked Japanese-built US 11 turboprop plane with 51 on board after a Korea DMZ armistice meeting. Col Maurice Jessup urged immediate return under international practice. Col Han Chu Kyung said the matter should be settled between North and South Korea themselves, bypassing the UN Command. South Korea criticizes Pyongyang as an illegal puppet regime and seeks avoid direct talks.
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Panmunjom
Korea
North Korea
Combined
Korean Military Armistice Commission
United Nations Command
Maurice E. Jessup
United States Army
Han Chu Kyung
North
South Korea
Military Armistice Commission
Domi
Nated
Pyongyang
Utilities Chief Pleads Innocent In Tax Case
Boston AP: Norman Mason, Massachusetts Public Utilities Commissioner, pleaded innocent in U.S. District Court to four count indictment for failing to file federal income tax returns for 1963 through 1966. Judge Caffrey adjourned to Jan 19 for motions as Mason resigns effective Dec 31 after indictment. Mason from Taunton also runs a private law practice.
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Boston
Norman Mason
U.S. District Court
Andrew Caffrey
Mason
Af Taunton
Francis W. Sargent
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D-Westford
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