Nixon Seeks Adequate Cover for Spy Ships to Avert Pueblo Loss
President elect Nixon argued for more and better protection for spy vessels to prevent another Pueblo-style capture. He favored area protection, though Pentagon officials warn escorting such ships would be costly and may compromise their mission.
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North Korea
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Earle Wheeler
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Wheeler
Congress
Japanese Students in Battle Injures Fifty at Tokyo University
About 500 rival leftist students clashed at Tokyo university's medical college using wooden staves iron pipes and rocks injuring more than 50. The groups led by the Japanese Communist party and a violent extremist faction fought over leadership in the campus reform movement.
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Tokyo
Tokyo University
Japanese Communist Party
North Areas Expecting White Yule
A white Christmas looms for the northern half of the nation as new Pacific storms bring gales and heavy snow from the Northwest to the Great Lakes. Lakeview Oregon reports 16 inches of snow while eastern Great Lakes endure biting winds and flurries. Travel warnings cover eight New York counties as arctic air cools the Plains and Midwest.
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Buffalo
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Midwest
Snowbound Regions Bite Back With Devastating Drifts
Regions across Kansas Nebraska Iowa eastern Dakotas and Minnesota faced up to two feet of snow with 10 to 12 foot drifts slowing highway clearing. Morris Minnesota reported 26 inches and Duluth 25 inches as South states endured a hard freeze and temperatures dipped into the mid twenties.
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Nebraska
Iowa
Dakotas
Minnesota
Morris
Minn
Duluth
Mercury
Georgia
Alabama
Life Sentences for Pair in Patrolman's Riot Death
Two Negro defendants including Gail Madden 22 and George Merritt Jr 24 were found guilty of first degree murder in the 1967 Plainfield riot death of Patrolman John Gleason Jr. The jury deliberated over 53 hours and sentenced both to life in prison with possible parole after about 14 years.
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Gail Madden
George Merritt, Jr
Donald Jones
Howard Brandon
Miss Madden
John Gleason, Jr
Gleason
Plainfield
Merritt
Chester Weidenburner
British Hail Apollo Feat From Moon Vicinities
Britain lauds the American moon mission with praise from leading scientists. Sir Bernard Lovell of Jodrell Bank calls it one of the great engineering feats as space exploration expands. Kenneth Gatland of the British Interplanetary Society hails the achievement and the shrinking of Earth to a speck in the sky.
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London
Britain
Bernard Lovell
Jodrell Bank Observatory
Kenneth Gatland
British Interplanetary Society
Soviets Report Apollo 8 Lunar Orbit Briefly
Moscow radio announced Apollo 8 briefly completed a lunar orbit and reestablished contact with ground control after passing behind the moon. The item was read at the end of a standard news broadcast.
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Moscow
Moscow Radio
Light Near Moon Not Space Ship Probably Venus
SPACE CENTER Houston AP That bright light near the moon was likely Venus not Apollo 8. A Fort Worth astronomer offered the same view as millions watched for the moonward craft. Sky watchers were told the spacecraft cannot be seen with the naked eye and Venus may explain the sightings.
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South Africa
Smithsonian Institution
Space Agency
Stockings Contain Newborns At Cleveland Hospital
Cleveland hospital plans to send newborn babies home this week inside 18 inch red and white flannel stockings bearing Christmas greetings on the outside making a festive departure for families.
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