Astronauts Face Christmas Mission Without Apprehension
Apollo 8 astronauts Jim Lovell Frank Borman and William Anders express no regret about flying at Christmas saying the mission serves a greater purpose and could unite people. They discuss viewing Earth from the moon and sharing Christmas visuals while family separations weigh on them.
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Space Agency
Jim Lovell
Frank Borman
Mission
Episcopal Church
Earth
Borman
Lovell
Howard Benedict
AP Aerospace
Space Center
Houston
Air Force
Navy
James A.lovell Jr
William A. Anders
Moon
Columbus
New World
Balboa
Pacific
de Gama
Cape of Good Hope
Jules Verne
Buck Rogers
Flash Gordon
Pacific Ocean
Craer
Sahara
Anders
Cape Kennedy
Students Threaten Disruption Of Papal Visit On Christmas Eve
Police guard as a small band of students threaten to disrupt Pope Paul VI's papal visit. The protest centers on perceived church neglect of the poor.
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Middle East
Jordan
Holy Land
Israel
Pope Paul
Taranto
Earth
Mackle identifies kidnap/killer pair in Georgia case
U S Attorney William Meadows says Barbara Jane Mackle has identified Gary Steven Krist and Ruth Eisemann Schier as the couple who buried her alive after kidnapping in North Georgia. Israeli warplanes bomb Arab guerrillas inside Jordan as Christmas preparations near climax. The Decatur Daily will not publish Wednesday to allow Christmas with families. No stock market report due to early Christmas Eve edition.
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Miami, Fla
U. S
William Meadows
Barbara Jane Mackle
Gary Steven Krist
Ruth Eisemann-Schier
North
Georgia
Bethlehem
Jordan
Pueblo Crewmen Head Home After Christmas Reunion
Eighty two Pueblo crewmen freed from North Korea winged toward San Diego for a family reunion after a memorial service in Seoul for Fireman Duane Hodges of Creswell Oregon, who died during the Pueblo seizure. Two Air Force planes carried the group and a coffin from Kimpo airport, with a Miramar stop before a 5 p.m. EST arrival.
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Vietnam
Holy Land
U.S
Pueblo
San Diego
Calif
Billy Graham
York
Bob Hope
Seoul
Air Force Clals
Kimpo
Duane H. Hodges
Creswell
Ore
Miramar Naval Air Station
Midway Island
A. U.S. Army
California
Lloyd M. Bucher
Hodges
Stanton Wilson
Chaplan
Navy
Korea
Bucher
Adm
Edwin M. Rosenberg
PO 3.C
Ralph E. Reed
Duncannon
Rosenberg
Truce Forms as Vietnam Fire Dies Down Christmas Ceasefire
In Saigon US and South Vietnamese forces join Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in a Christmas ceasefire after a daylong battle that left 159 enemy dead. The 24 hour truce runs to 6 p.m. Christmas. Viet Cong had pledged a 72 hour cease beginning 1 a.m. today amid ongoing DMZ indications and scattered attacks.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
Johnson
North Vietnam
U.S
Vietnam
Paris
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