Ford Family Christmas Gift Exchange During Ski Trip
President Ford and family celebrate after a bruised hip while skiing, sharing gifts at a Colorado yule break. Betty Ford and Susan Ford receive robes and a camera as Steve adds a lithograph by Olaf Weighorst. The gathering features cranberry sauce, turkey with giblet gravy, and a festive toast.
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Gilmore Eats Yule Meal Alone On Death Row
Gary Gilmore, awaiting execution by firing squad, ate a turkey holiday dinner in solitary confinement with only a few visitors allowed. Prison officials say they aim to treat him like other inmates, but the case sparks fear across other death rows as a possible first U.S. execution in over a decade.
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Turkey
Itvier
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Robert Moody
Gilmore
Slanger
Bukovsky: Soviet inmates punished for protests
Paris report quotes exiled dissident Vladimir Bukovsky describing reprisals against political prisoners in Soviet camps. He alleges isolation, hunger strikes, and renewed confinements after Nixon's 1974 visit, naming five prisoners deteriorating under poor conditions.
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Luis Carvalan
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