East Germans demand right to leave for West
East German state security agents arrested Dr Karl Heinz Nitschke in Riesa for leading a leave-for-West movement. Thousands seek exit rights, unsettling East German leaders and prompting Western fears of unrest. Western estimates of applicants range widely while East Germany denies large figures. The 1953 Berlin uprising memory looms over officials.
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Bonn
West Germany
UPI
State Security Service
Schweriner Strasse
Saxony
Riesa
Karl Heinz Nitschke
German Democratic Republic
West
East
Eastmans
Welt Am Sonntag
East Germany
Hastings urged to chart own power path after plant denial
Hastings must pursue its own power options after the Nebraska Power Review Board denied the Great Plains Power Agency plan for a 150 megawatt coal plant near Doniphan that would serve Hastings and Grand Island. Bill Welton urged local control and considered alternatives including a Hastings generating facility or joint projects with other utilities.
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Hastings
Neb
UPI
Bill Welton
Nebraska Municipal Power Pool
Welton
Nebraska Power Review Board
Great Plains Power Agency
Doniphan
Grand Island
Hastings Utility Board
Nebraska Public Power Pool
Nebraska Public Power District
NPPD
Two Nation Rail Opens North America Link
The first international rail service in North America began July 18 1853 linking Portland Maine with Montreal Canada as a transcontinental gateway.
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North America
Portland
Montreal
Canada
Nebraska Marching Band Plans Astro Bluebonnet Bowl Trip
The University of Nebraska Lincoln marching band aims to raise forty thousand dollars for a trip to the Astro Bluebonnet Bowl with twelve thousand two hundred sixty three dollars already funded by the NU Foundation. Tentative plans call for six chartered buses to Houston with overnight stops in Dallas and Ardmore, starting December 27.
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Lincoln, Neb
NU Foundation
Houston
Tex
Dallas
Ardmore
Okla
Lincoln
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Ray Fenton
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Ebeneezer Scrooge
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Fleischer Rexall
S&h
America
WOOL
Price
Orson Ski
Geer
Schick Or No
Schick
Siel
Barbie
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Tonka
Rey Beauty
Challone
Barbie Beauty
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Cologne
Barbie Beauty Center
Evel Knievel
Webeue Heo
Phoopes
Columbus, Nebraska
Columbus Telegram
Nebraska U. Band
Dairy Queen
33Rd Ave
Pawnee Park
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