25 Dec 1969
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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1969
Page
1
Wives and children of Americans held prisoner in North Vietnam planned a demonstration outside the Hanoi peace talks delegation villa near Paris. Police said they would not block the protest, though it had been banned in the past, while Xuan Thuy called the visit a provocative act.
In Barrancabermeja the overcrowded ferry Alicia collided with four oil barges on the Magdalena River and sank. Police estimate 25 to 40 dead, with around 100 aboard and 46 swimming to shore as authorities tally the disaster.
Three winter storms lash the country and raise ski season hopes as California Nevada high Sierra reports up to three feet of snow. Bitter cold grips the Northeast and upper Midwest with arctic temperatures. A 102 hour Christmas travel period could set a highway death record, while President Nixon signs a bill allowing anti inflation controls. DOT also finds tires from Allstate Armstrong General Uniroyal fail safety tests.
Bethlehem blends war and revelry as Christmas Eve shifts from the Church of the Nativity to crowded bars and discos. More than 100 Israeli soldiers guard the streets while tourists from around the world celebrate a pop Christmas in a city long marked by conflict.
Willie Sutton, famed bank robber nicknamed The Actor, is freed from Attica after a 27 year term ends. He plans to write as he leaves, saying the release came after court orders vacated two sentences.
Howard Lawson, 51, dies in Akron after 18 months with a transplanted heart. A New York woman who bought a 200 pound jaguar from Central Park Zoo returns it to Leticia in the Amazon, saying the cat needs her and could not be released safely. Rebecca the jaguar will remain in captivity while the owner plans permanent quarters in Leticia.
Former Chief Justice Earl Warren and Mrs. Warren plan to attend the Oakland wedding of their grandson James Lee Warren to Cassandra Hamilton Horton. The groom, recently discharged from the Army, is the son of James Warren, a St Helena realtor.
Wealthy Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, age 57, spends Christmas in a $2,500-a-day Mark Hopkins Hotel suite on Nob Hill San Francisco. She remains in the suite since arriving December 12 after a Milan fall, with no guests expected as her seven marriages loom in her past.
Beatle John Lennon Yoko Ono and American comedian Dick Gregory drove to Rochester Cathedral in Chatham England for a Christmas Eve sit in to protest world poverty. Gregory stayed in the car while Lennon and Ono surveyed a crowd around a willow tree plan of demonstration then joined him inside for midnight services. Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s deputy, met his wife and son at a British military hospital in West Berlin for a holiday reunion during treatment for a stomach ulcer.
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