Parleys Break as Nixon Peace Talks Hamstrung
Allied negotiators recessed the Paris talks for 12 days over Christmas. Habib, North Vietnamese leaders and Madame Binh accused Nixon of downgrading talks while Habib urged genuine discussion and vowed the U. S. plan to withdraw combat troops and replace them with South Vietnamese forces on a timetable.
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Vietnam
Hanoi
Cabot Lodge
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Philip }Ahib
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Ial
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Lau
Xuan Thuy
Stag Party Raid Catches Judge in Clay Shaw Trial
In New Orleans a stag party in a motel room was raided by police catching Judge Edward Haggerty who presided at the Clay Shaw trial. He was arrested along with three women and ten men on soliciting for prostitution, obscenity, resisting arrest, and related charges.
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New Orleans
Poliege
Edward Haggerty
Joseph Murry
Haggerty
Lon
State Criminal District Court
Shaw
Kennedy
Murry
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Nigeria delays delegation to peace talks with Biafra
Nigeria postponed indefinitely the departure of its delegation for peace talks with Biafra. The delay was announced in Addis Ababa by a federal spokesman on Wednesday.
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Nigeria
London
UPI
Biafra
Addis Ababa
Chuckle Odd Joke About Santa Claws and Charges
A brief humorous line plays with a misspelled holiday complaint about Santa charging or winging charges, delivering a light wordplay moment without a clear news event or person of record.
Morgenthau Balks at Exit as G O P Split
New York AP reports United States Attorney Robert Morgenthau debates resignation as Republican split over Nixon move to replace him clouds political timing. Morgenthau cites ongoing investigations and his four year term ending June 1971, while Seymour Whitney seeks succession and Nixon’s plan prompts party division among New York’s GOP leaders.
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AL Javits
Chates Goodell
Robert Morgenthau
Nixon
Seymour
Senate
Morgenthau
Whitney Seymour
U.S
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Turner Rules College Road Dee Rain Unit Cars Under Dispatcher
A Iowa Daily Press Assn report notes Atty Gen Richard Turner says the state car dispatcher may control all state owned vehicles including highway and regents fleets. The opinion, stemming from a 1939 act, raises questions over vehicle scope, definitions, and whether ambulances and buses fall under dispatcher authority. It urges a common sense approach to settle which vehicles are under control.
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Turner Rules College
Peopre
Harrison Weber
Iowa Daily Press Assn
Des Moines
Atty
Richard ‘Turner
Highway Commission
J Board of Regents
Regent
Frank E. Johnson
Turner
The
Oil Leaks Again Off California
A new offshore leak near Santa Barbara expands an oil slick about 50 square miles drifting southward from Union Oil’s platform in the Santa Barbara channel. The seepage, detected Wednesday, released roughly 4,000 to 9,000 gallons of oil from a weld in an undersea pipe, near the site of the January 28 blowout, as the slick grew into a droplet‑shaped patch.
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Gallt
Pacific
Union Oil Co
Good Folk Like Santa Never Jailed Chief Writes
WAUKESHA Wis. (UPI) Four year old Hobby Grunfelder halted his protest after overhearing that a Santa figure had been jailed on draft evasion charges. He refused naps and extra food until Christmas to protest Santa's arrest. The boy’s parents learned the Santa was only impersonating and the claim was false. The California police chief who jailed the apparent Santa explained the mix up in a letter. Frankinburger 22, held in San Francisco County Jail, was suspected of draft evasion and had other warrants.
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Robert Frankinburger
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Endorse Peace Prayer Day in Christmas Vietnam plea
Washington church leaders and the Vietnam Moratorium Committee urged a Christmas Eve shift from merriment to prayer for peace in Vietnam. The statement was read by Rt Rev Paul Moore with support from National Council of Churches president Cynthia Wedel and other church figures. The call asks Americans to aid civilian relief, donate to the peace movement, and view the season as penitence for the war.
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Vietnam
Paul Moore
Episcopal
National Council of Churches
Cynthia Wedel
Moore
New York
Wiliam Sloane Coffin
Yale University
Martin Luther King
Charles Golden
United Methodist Church
San Francisco
Thames Gumbleton
John Shéerin
Catholic World
Reinhold Niebuhr
Wedel
National Council
Congress
Stocks Rally Sharply On Burns Fed Hope
New York traders sent stocks higher after Arthur Burns, nominated for Fed chair, signaled potential easing of tight money policy if confirmed. Analysts linked the surge to Burns’ cautious stance and expectations of closer scrutiny of policy.
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Arthur Burns
Federal Reserve Board
Burns
85 U S. troops killed in Vietnam last week
Saigon reports 85 American battlefield deaths in the Vietnam War last week, raising total U S fatalities since Jan 1 1964 to 39 827 and wounded to 261 258. South Vietnamese losses included 421 government soldiers killed and 1 486 wounded.
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U.S
U. S
U.S. Command
Mekong Detta
Link Yule Lights To Fire Killing
New York AP reports nine people died in a Brooklyn blaze that trapped children on the top floor of a two and a half story frame building. Seven others were injured, several critically. Firemen say a display of electric Christmas lights in a living room window may have ignited the curtains.
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New York
Brooklyn
Georgia Tate
Vote to Ban Death Penalty in Britain Secures Upper House Approval
London reports show the House of Commons voted 333 to 105 to abolish hanging, and the Lords endorsed abolition, making the move effectively permanent. Debates revealed sharp division across both houses and the nation on the capital punishment issue.
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London
UPI
House of Commons
Nyesn
Commons
Tax bill trims many provisions as conference action nears
Washington AF reports the 14 member tax conference committee has cut or altered numerous Senate and House provisions in the tax reform bill. Key items under consideration include a college expense tax credit, medical expense deductions, handicapped work costs, a higher minimum Social Security payment, welfare increases, and continued investment credits. President Nixon indicated opposition to several measures, and a veto remains possible. Senate and House leaders expect completion by Thursday night with final actions likely on a mix of retained and dropped provisions.
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