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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1975
Page
2
Commerce Department data show November exports 1.1 billion more than imports, lifting year to date surplus to 10.6 billion and signaling a potential 11.6 billion year end. Growth driven by coal, autos, and military aircraft sales amid 1974 deficit contrasts.
The official Hsinhua report says Mao Tse-tung released all mid to high level officials held since 1949 after the Communist take over. Citizenship rights are granted to former Nationalist officials who spent 26 years in labor reeducation units with paths to stay in China or return to Taiwan. The piece notes rehabilitation through punishment and ideological education but gives no count of released prisoners.
Leftist guerrillas and government forces clash in Buenos Aires with at least 115 dead, threatening Isabel Peron's cabinet which offered resignations that she rejected. The clash adds to 1975 political violence toll of 855 deaths. The Marxist army claimed responsibility in a clandestine communique. In Sydney, a Christmas morning fire at the Savoy hotel kills 18 and injuries 23, eight in critical condition, as residents and visitors flee the five story building.
President Ford publicly urged Labor Secretary John Dunlop not to resign while Dunlop weighs quitting after a clash over a proposed bill expanding construction workers picketing rights. Dunlop plans two to three weeks to decide, seeking counsel from labor and management allies.
Former Sen Edward Gurney blasts Attorney General Edward Levi after Levi announces a second trial for Gurney and aide Joseph Bastien on conspiracy and perjury tied to an alleged builders payoff scheme. Gurney, age 61, who sat on the Watergate committee, was acquitted on five counts and retrial is set for February in Orlando.
Kenneth Uston claims several Las Vegas casinos barred him from blackjack for being a competent, winning player and seeks 14.6 million dollars in federal suits against MGM Grand Hotel and Airport Casino Inc. In separate report, composer Bernard Herrmann dies at 64 in Hollywood after finishing Taxi Driver score.
In Longwood Florida the Allen Cutcher family reports their Christmas Santa effigy was stolen again and the supporting scaffold damaged after it was hung as a protest against the Christmas lie. Mrs Cutcher defended the act citing Revelations and vows to reinstall the hanging Santa. The family belongs to a Pentecostal Holiness congregation.
A spoof claim circulates that John McGuire of the U.S. Forest Service oversees national forests and keeps an artificial Christmas tree as chief tree in his office. The item is a fabrication and not supported by official sources.
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