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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 22, 1969

Page

5

Fidel Promises Death Penalty For Sugar Harvest Saboteurs

Fidel Castro warned in Radio Havana that anyone who jokes about Cuba’s sugar harvest would not live to tell the joke again. He vowed to assassinate saboteurs as Cuba aims for a record 10 million tons, with volunteers worldwide, including reportedly 200 American youths, joining the effort.

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Pencil Found in Chest After Fall on May 15

Ten year old Jack Davenport Jr complained of chest pains after falling while turning to catch a school bus on May 15. Six doctors found nothing wrong until his chest turned blue and surgeons removed a five inch pencil wedged between his breastbone and heart.

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90th Anniversary of Stalin Marked

MOSCOW AP The 90th anniversary of Joseph Stalin's birth was observed with a Kremlin policy statement on the dictator and the arrest of two anti Stalinists. Anataly Yakobson, a poet and translator, was charged with throwing Stalin's portrait to the ground in Red Square. Victor Krasin was seized at a friend's home. Pravda framed Stalin as neither god nor ogre, noting party attitude unchanged since 1956.

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San Francisco Mayor Accused in Fee-Splitting Case

AP reports Joseph Alioto faces allegations of sharing legal fees with two Washington officials from an antitrust suit in which he represented plaintiffs. Washington Attorney General Slade Gorton seeks to recover about 705,160 dollars. former aide George Faler and ex- Lt. Gov. John O Connell are named in notices. Alioto denies wrongdoing and promises public disclosure of documents upon return from New York.

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