Kidnapped Barbara Mackle Rescued by Ground Diggers
FBI rescuers found Barbara Mackle by tapping sounds heard underground as search crews drilled through a briar covered hillside in Coral Gables Florida The note with ransom demand was buried beneath a rock in the Mackle home yard officials said another suspect Ruth Eisemann Schier 26 and escaped convict Gary Steven Krist 23 faced federal charges in related kidnapping cases Bond set at 500000 with proceedings continued to January 10
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Pueblo reunion spans nations as Pueblo crewmen return
SAN DIEGO Calif AP across America Japan and the Philippines wives children and parents of the 82 surviving Pueblo crewmen gather for the largest Christmas Eve reunion since their capture. They are due to land at Miramar Naval Air Station at 1 pm EST and will be taken to San Diego Naval Hospital for private reunions with families.
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Christmas ceasefire to pause Viet war fighting for 3 days
In Saigon a three day Christmas truce declared by the Viet Cong National Liberation Front takes effect at 1 a.m. Christmas Eve Saigon time. Allied forces may not recognize a halt until 6 p.m. Christmas Day a meeting is planned between U S NLF representatives to discuss return of three U S prisoners Thomas Nelson Jones James W Brigham and Donald L Smith Five unarmed Americans will meet an NLF group in no man’s land about 50 miles northwest of Saigon South Vietnamese officials say government forces will observe the 24 hour stand down while cease-fire orders are in place.
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82 Pueblo crewmen freed after months in North Korean custody
Admiral Rosenberg announced the 82 Navy crewmen would fly home on two C-141s from Ascom City after 11 months in captivity. Cmdr. Lloyd Bucher described brutal beatings and solitary confinement, noting black eyes and bruises among many, with relief at imminent reunions in San Diego.
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Apollo 8 Nears Moon with 12 Second Course Burn
Apollo 8 astronauts Franklin Borman James Lovell and William Anders fired reaction control thrusters for 12 seconds to slow by under two miles per hour, guiding the craft to within about 72 miles of the lunar surface. They rested briefly and prepared for a Tusnar orbit as TV images of Earth looped from lunar orbit. The mission marked humanity’s first live deep space television portrait and a historic step beyond Earth’s gravity.
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Local cold eases slightly in southwest on Christmas Day
Sunny skies persist in Jefferson City and central Missouri with continued cold conditions. Highs stay in the 20s while clouds increase tonight. Christmas Day brings considerable cloudiness with a slight chance of snow in the northeast and a marginal warm-up elsewhere.
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Pontiff to say Christmas Mass in Taranto steel mill
Security tightens in Taranto as Pope Paul VI prepares a six hour Vatican trip for Christmas Eve services inside a four ton steel plate at the Marascalchi steel complex. Police bring reinforcements from Brindisi and Lecce fearing demonstrations by followers of rebel priest Don Enzo Mazzi in southern Italy. More than 12,000 regional workers will attend the Mass amid industrial surroundings and tensions between progressive Roman Catholics and church authorities.
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Fate of Pueblo questioned by Pentagon over ship's status
The USS Pueblo’s fate remains unclear as North Korea has not disclosed the ship’s current status or location since its capture last January. The Pentagon declined to comment, citing intelligence protections, while officials say replacing the 935 ton vessel would cost about 3.5 million dollars.
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Severe storms heap snow in wide areas
Severe storms blanketed a large region with heavy snow delaying holiday travel. In Michigan 16 inches fell in Marquette and a foot in Sault Ste Marie while western Upper Peninsula roads were shut. Nebraska blizzard left drifts up to 12 feet and halted highways from Lincoln to Big Springs with 400 travelers freed and 1100 Dawson County residents given shelter. Sioux Falls and southeastern South Dakota highways were blocked and the airport paused operations.
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Christmas brings small joys to families of Mountaineer No. 9 victims
In Farmington West Virginia families faced a muted Christmas as 78 miners remained entombed after Mountaineer No. 9’s blast. Santa visited a town hall party organized by volunteers with aid from a New York American Legion group and an Ohio Coast Guard unit, bringing dolls and toy vehicles to 124 children while parents grappled with loss.
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