HUD vows aggressive enforcement of open housing law
Washington AP reports the 1968 fair housing act becomes fully effective on New Year’s Day with HUD pledging vigorous enforcement. About 4 million single family homes join 20 million existing housing units covered by the act, as Samuel J. Simmons notes HUD will double pattern or practice discrimination referrals to the Justice Department by 1988. The agency plans education campaigns and cites 927 complaints this year with 94 conciliations. The act bans denial of housing sales rentals financing and brokerage based on race color or religion, and HUD outsources complaints to nine states. Some exemptions include owner occupied two to four unit buildings and certain single family home sales without brokers.
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Supreme Court
Mars. Murphy
Hawaii Volcano Erupts for 12th Time in 1984
Kilauea Volcano erupted anew in 1984 delivering a 1,600 foot lava fountain and rivers of lava into nearby craters. Rangers reported no danger to homes on the Island of Hawaii as the activity began in the morning with 200 foot fountains and peaked in the afternoon.
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UPI
Valscanoes National Park
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Honolulu
Two oil tankers explode off Africa coast in blasts
Explosives and fires damaged two supertankers off Africa's east and west coasts. The 10,000 ton Mactra was wrecked off Mozambique with two crew killed and six injured. five rescued. The Norwegian tanker King Haakon Vil exploded off Monrovia with no injuries. Crew abandoned, later reboarded for repairs. The Macha’s sister ship Marpessa had sunk off West Africa two weeks earlier.
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Africa
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Liberia
Cellina
Lars ‘Lolthis
West Africa
Soviet Tass reports half of Chinese Communist leadership purged
Tass claims Mao era Cultural Revolution purged at least half of the Chinese Communist leadership. Surviving leaders reportedly joined revolutionary committees and the military holds dominant rule. The dispatch is Tass’s first major China report since the Sing-Soviet talks began in Peking October 20, with resumption announced after a recess through March.
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Tass
Communist Party
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China
Peking
White teacher sues over Nantucket nonrenewal for marriage
UPI reports in Boston that Hannah Peters Haynes, a Nantucket elementary teacher since 1966, claims the Nantucket School Committee did not renew her contract because she married a black man in August 1969. She seeks reinstatement and 50000 in damages.
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UPI
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U.S. District Court
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Daniel Haynes
Judge faces assault charge in wife stabbing case
Pasadena AP reports Superior Court Judge Lloyd Davis pleads innocent to a charge of assault with a deadly weapon in the alleged stabbing of his wife at their home on Oct 26. A pre trial hearing is set for Jan 12 in Los Angeles Superior Court with trial tentatively slated for March 23.
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Los Angeles Superior Court
Union head to oppose Hayakawa at SFSU
AFT president David Selden said Hayakawa’s firing of eight faculty at San Francisco State College shows presidential autocracy and ignores faculty governance. The AFT local calls the dismissals inflation while administration cites academic grounds.
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Presidad Hayakawa
San Francisco State
Selden
Israeli warplanes resume attacks in Suez area
Israeli warplanes returned to the attack after a one day lull striking Egyptian artillery and antiaircraft positions in the Suez City area. The spokesman in Tel Aviv said the 80 minute strike ended with all planes safely returning to base. A separate raid hit a radar station near Ajlun, Jordan. One Israeli soldier was wounded in canal-side clashes. Egypt reported an earlier attack on an airport southwest of Port Said as 100 percent successful.
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French gunboats sighted off Haifa amid oil operation
Two of five French gunboats were seen 40 miles west of Haifa by an AP photographer. Israeli jets flew over the vessels as the mission appeared to be supplying and defending an Israel-American oil drilling operation off the coast. The boats departed Cherbourg on Christmas Eve, with gale winds slowing them earlier.
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Associated Press
Brian Calvert
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Agnew Eyes Vietnam Visit After Manila Talks
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s Philippine stop neared end with talks with President Marcos. Sources said no agenda or decisions emerged but he reiterated U S commitments to Asian nations and discussed Nixon Doctrine and future U S Philippines military and commercial relations during a light schedule in Manila before a Vietnam trip.
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UPI
Spira T. Agnew
Philippines
Viet Nam
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Vietnam
Nixon
Washington
Governor Maddox deploys troopers to Sandersville amid racial tensions
Gov. Lester Maddox ordered additional state agents and troopers into Sandersville after a second racial shooting in a week as Negro protesters seek better employment and conditions at the town’s mostly Black school. Maj. Barney Ragsdale said a carload of colored people was fired into after a meeting, wounding one woman. Maddox warned of possible further incidents and said local lawmen lack sufficient trained manpower while deeming the move a precautionary measure.
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Lester Maddox
Georgia
Barney Ragsdale
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Tennille
Here
Ragsdale
GBI
Haysdale
Maddox
Iie
Allies begin cease fire after killing 200 of enemy
U S and South Vietnamese forces halted combat for a 24 hour New Year truce after reporting over 200 Viet Cong killed during the prior hours of the unilateral ceasefire. The Viet Cong had a 72 hour ceasefire starting Tuesday at 1 am.
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I T
U.S
South Vietnam
Viet Nam Assembly censures three for pro Communist activity
In Saigon a stormy National Assembly session censured three deputies for varying pro Communist ties. Two charges were reduced to win a verdict but the margin failed to reach three quarters. Five hours of shouting erupted with a female legislator briefly assaulting a male colleague. A sign read to leave weapons, yet a pistol was seen in the chamber. Sixty nine of 114 present voted to censure, likely hindering future reelection efforts.
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Upi
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Nguyen van Thien
Auss
Lio
General Abrams Suffering Pneumonia in Vietnam
Gen Creighton W Abrams commander of U S forces in Vietnam is ill with pneumonia but showing improvement. The 56 year old was admitted to the Army 3rd Field Hospital outside Saigon with pleurisy symptoms. Doctors say chest pains have disappeared and he is not bedbound though he will remain in hospital several more days.
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W. Abrams
Vietnam
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