Pope warns against evils assailing the family
Pope Paul VI closed Christmas week with a call for family stability and a warning about evils threatening married life. He spoke from St Peter's Square on the Holy Family feast, urging Christians to defend the family from threats to unity, fecundity, and educative function. He avoided abortion and politics, but pressed a new spiritual humanism and set dates for a World Synod of Bishops and sainthood announcements. He also prepared for the Day of Peace observance, underscoring defense of life as foundational to peace.
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Rest home fire kills partygoers in Newfoundland blast
A Christmas party at Chase's Rest Home in LeGoulds near St John’s turned deadly when a wooden two story building burned. Firemen recovered 20 bodies including a 105 year old woman and a 16 year old visitor. only three evacuees survived. Investigators said no cause yet and no further bodies expected.
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Riots in South Africa kill 19 amid Cape Town clashes
In Gugulethu and Nyanga, rival blocs fought in two segregated townships near Cape Town. Nineteen people died, including a child, and 97 were wounded as migrants and black militants clashed. Dozens of homes burned or damaged amid street violence during the Christmas period.
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Dietrich Birthday Mystery With Age Put At 72 74 Or 75
Paris based UPI notes Marlene Dietrich marks a birthday with disputed ages from 1901 to 1904. Friends favor 1904 while Dietrich remains coy on her exact year as she recovers from a hip injury, plans an autobiography, and tends to her four room apartment on Avenue Montaigne. She is still tied to her career, drawing and cooking, while her daughter Maria Riva shines in New York and Dietrich contemplates visits and family time.
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Saudi to raise oil output in 1977 by 20 percent
Beirut Lebanon United Press International reports that Saudi Arabia will boost crude oil production by about 1.5 million barrels per day to 10 million bpd in early 1977, from Arabian American Oil Co. fields. The level will be reviewed quarterly with possible changes. 1976 output averaged 8.44 million bpd.
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