London quiet after bombings across city on Christmas Eve
London and Northern Ireland observed a quiet Christmas after guerrilla bombs on Christmas Eve killed three and injured 42, with one 63 year old Belfast woman among Christmas Day casualties from crossfire. Scotland Yard kept a 120 man bomb squad on alert as nine days of blasts across 23 explosions spanned Hampstead and Newry. The toll of the Catholic-Protestant clash rose to 925 dead in four and a half years of sectarian warfare.
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Turkish flags at half staff for Ismet Inonu leader
Turkish flags flew at half staff in Ankara in memory of Ismet Inonu aged 89 a former president premier and foreign minister who died at his home after a heart attack He had been bedridden for 10 days The funeral date was not announced but he was to be buried beside Kemal Ataturk at the mausoleum Inonu had served as Ataturk's premier in 1923 24 and 1925 37 and became president after Ataturk's 1938 death.
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Inonu's long Turkey career ends in 1971 resignation
Mustafa Inonu steered Turkey from neutrality in World War I toward Western alignment, led free elections in 1950, and returned as premier in 1961. He survived coups in 1962 and 1963, stayed in office until 1964, and finally exited active politics in 1971 after a socialist faction seized control of his Republican People’s Party. He is survived by his wife and three children.
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Police arrest guerrilla backers in Paris raid
In Paris police arrested 13 supporters of the Palestine guerrilla movement after stopping a smuggling arms vehicle at the Italian border on December 20. The raid at a villa in Essonne uncovered grenades, fuses, about 45 pounds of plastic explosive, doctored books used as letter bombs, false passports, and 10 men claiming Turkish nationality. Officials said the group aligned with the Turkish Popular Liberation Front and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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American dream comes true for Beverly Hills financier
Gregory William McKay, 31, built Innovest Inc., guiding over $100 million in investments. Born in Holland in 1942, he fled the war with his mother, later arriving in Los Angeles at 17. He started in Equity Funding, then founded Innovest in 1966 focusing on tax shelters in real estate after oil and cattle declined.
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Escapee found in Fulton barn
A 30 year old former Fulton State Hospital patient escaped from the Callaway County jail this morning. Elmer Herron was found sleeping in a Fulton barn with a paring knife after fleeing downtown Fulton from a third floor jail window about 4 30 a m. He offered no resistance. Herron is charged with first degree murder in the 1971 death of Dr George Chase. He was captured at 10 15 a m by sheriff's deputies and Fulton police.
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Reds Down Saigon Transport Helicopter Christmas Day
Communist gunners shot down a South Vietnamese transport helicopter at Tong Le Chan base 60 miles north of Saigon. Nine soldiers were killed and 36 wounded. six crewmen and 45 militiamen were aboard as it was landing. The base has been cut off by road since last March.
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Bus driver slain near New Boston on Christmas night
A knife-wielding passenger fatally wounded cross country bus driver Billy Fred Young as the Continental Trailways bus, carrying about 20 passengers, stopped after a struggle near New Boston Texas. Authorities search wooded areas for the suspect. no passengers injured. Young, a retired Texarkana firefighter, drove on a Memphis to Los Angeles run.
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