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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1972
Page
2
Poland and East Germany tighten border rules after pledging free travel. Customs duties are restored for Poles and East Germans, reversing two recent relaxations. The move follows market imbalances from heavy cross border traffic affecting prices and goods availability.
At a two day Dublin conference the Official Sinn Fein faction rejected a move to bury the hatchet with the Provisional IRA. The Officials continued to oppose unity with the Provisionals amid ongoing sectarian violence in Northern Ireland that left four dead and many wounded. The conference also noted the split within the IRA and dismissed claims of true revolutionary intent from the Provisionals.
The Charleston Gazette, an independent Democratic newspaper founded in 1875, published from Charleston West Virginia, is listed under the act of March 3, 1897.
President Nixon sent a Christmas telegram to pediatric patients at Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases in New York. He praised warmth and friendship as the season’s best gift and urged wishes of joy and hope for the boys and girls, read aloud by Terence Senn. Cardinal Cooke joined in the visit to the Sloan Kettering hospital.
Ulster leaders pursue a union with the largely Catholic Irish Republic, seeking political alignment beyond current relations. The move signals potential shifts in governance, religion, and regional balance as negotiations unfold.
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