Apollo 8 Clears Fuel Contamination For Launch Go Ahead
Apollo 8 fuel contamination fixed in main generator allows NASA to proceed toward a Saturday liftoff from Cape Kennedy. Crew—Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders—eat before bed as weather forecasters weigh cloud cover to determine visibility for a historic trans lunar flight.
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William A. Anders
William C. Schneider
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Navy
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Anders
Denis J. Barry
St. Martin’s Catholic Church
la Mesa
Calif
Bill Anders
Debutante Barbara Mackle Found Buried Alive in Georgia
FBI says Barbara Mackle, 20, Emory College junior, was located in a coffin-like subterranean box 18 inches underground about 20 miles northeast of Atlanta after ransom talks. She wore her original gown, had food water and air pump, and was rescued after 80 hours. The case led to charges against an escaped convict and a woman in the kidnapping. Barbara and her father, Robert F. Mackle, flew to Atlanta, then planned to return to Florida.
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Longshoremen resume strike against East Gulf Coast ports
New York reports the longshoremen's strike in East and Gulf Coast ports restarted after a closed door meeting. AFL CIO head Thomas Gleason blamed the Philadelphia Maritime Board for blocking an expanded master contract. President Johnson warned against repeating past export losses and an embargo followed by rail suspensions threatened coastwise cargo, with estimates of up to five million dollars daily losses.
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Johnson
Association of American Railroads
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Gulf
Steinbeck Dies in Sleep at 66 in New York
New York AP reports novelist John Steinbeck died Friday at 66 in his Manhattan home from heart and respiratory failure after a period of heart trouble. Nobel laureate and Pulitzer winner for The Grapes of Wrath, his work inspired several films and translated into 33 languages, with a late career less active but noted for wit and whimsy.
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Manhattan
Moore to join Raleigh law firm as partner
Gov Dan Moore will join Joyner and Howison as partner on January 15 making the firm Joyner Moore and Howison in Raleigh The announcement says Moore is an excellent attorney and a distinguished judge and he and Mrs Moore will remain in Raleigh with many friends
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Moore
William T. Joyner
Promise Of The Prophets 5 Disappointed Hope Before Messiah
The final piece of a five part Christmas series notes the delay and difficulty in achieving the ideal realm foreseen by prophets before Jesus birth. It recalls Zechariah Hagga and Zerubbabel, the fluctuating expectations across Egypt Persia Syria Greece and Rome, and the recurring disappointments that tempered the golden dream. The article frames a long yearning as a recurring human pursuit rather than imminent fulfillment.
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Persia
Syria
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Rome
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Zion
U S Plans To Meet VC On POW Release Near Saigon
Saigon reports the United States will host five Viet Cong National Liberation Front representatives for a Christmas Day meeting with U S commanders to discuss the exchange of service members detained by the communists. The dialogue aims to arrange release terms as fighting rages near Trang Bang and the Cambodian border.
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Viet Cong
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Paris
Do Cao Tri
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Vietnam
Viet Minh say Saigon regime must go for talks progress
Hanoi officials said the present Saigon government must be replaced to advance peace talks. Le Duc Tho urged ousting the regime and forming a peace government ready to negotiate with the National Liberation Front. Xuan Thuy dismissed U S warnings of attacks as allied aggression while Cyrus Vance prepared a report to President Johnson on the deadlock and four way talks. See TALKS, Page Two.
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Vietnam
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NLF
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Vance
Washington
Johnson
Nguyen Cao Ky
Freed Prisoners Say They Were Well Treated In Cambodia
Eleven U S soldiers freed after five months in Cambodia say they were well treated. They were released at 1 p m Thursday and flew to Bangkok en route home for Christmas reunions. One wounded comrade stayed behind in Phnom Penh. the group praised Prince Sihanouk for a goodwill gesture and attended functions in Cambodia before departing via Clark Air Base.
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Bangkok
Thailand
U.S
W.O
Ralph W. McCullough
Phnom Penh
Earl Gurnsey
Gurnsey
Prince Norodom Sihanouk
Clark Air Base
Philippines
Sihanouk
Nixon appoints Yost ambassador to United Nations
President elect Richard Nixon selected Charles W. Yost to be ambassador to the United Nations. Yost, a longtime diplomat and Humphrey adviser, will serve for the duration of the Nixon administration. Sargent Shriver remains ambassador to France, while others questioned the choice of a relatively unknown career diplomat.
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United Nations
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France
Yost
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Shriver
Hubert H. Humphrey
U.N
Ishriver
Humphrey
Eugene J. McCarthy
D-Minn
Kennedy
Paris
National Security Council
Cabinet
Weather outlook for Virginia and North Carolina
VIRGINIA mostly sunny with increasing clouds Saturday and a chance of rain late. highs in the 40s to 50s. Sunday showers likely west and increasing cloudiness east with highs 45 to 55. NORTH CAROLINA generally fair and cool Saturday, highs 45 to 53, with nights in the 30s to around 40 along the coast. Sunday increasing clouds and a chance of showers west.
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