Army charges two GIs with aiding enemy
Two U S soldiers Sgt George E Smith and Spec 4 Claude McClure were charged with aiding the Viet Cong during captivity before a final decision on trial. They were captured near Saigon in 1963 and released last November at the Cambodian border. They are on Okinawa as their cases proceed with defense attorneys appointed.
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U.S. Army
George E. Smith
Chester
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Claude McClure
Chattanooga
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United States
U.S
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McClure
Hiep Hoa
Saigon
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Bangkok
Peppermint Kid Receives Candy at Christmas
Kenyon Minnesota AP reports 85 year old Niels Rasmussen nicknamed the Peppermint Kid received a flood of candy and cards after a national AP feature. Rasmussen, a Danish immigrant, lived at the Kenyon Sunset Home for about two years and had few known relatives before the donations arrived.
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Kenyon
Niels Bollum Rasmussen
The
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Associated Press
Denmark
St. Paul
Plane lands on George Washington Bridge after engine failure
A small single engine plane with two men aboard clipped a truck driven by Woodrow Leone on the George Washington Bridge. The plane then veered into the center lanes and rested there while Leone, from Guttenberg, N J, was unhurt. Pilot Phillip Ippolito 19 of the Bronx and passenger Joseph Brennan 39 of Hackensack N J reported minor injuries and an inability to swim respectively.
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Ippolito
New Jersey
Wisconsin Christmas traffic toll tops 1000 for second time
Wisconsin’s Christmas period deaths push the year end toll above 1,000 with 12 fatalities over the holiday. The report lists victims including Merlin Schulz 30 of Water Town and others across Dodge Ashland Madison Milwaukee and Shawano counties.
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Wisconsin
Repeated Truce Violations By Viet Cong Told
AP dispatch reports three days of cease-fire breaches by the Viet Cong as U S Marines clash with attackers near Da Nang and quang ha areas. Casualties include 63 Viet Cong killed, 2 American soldiers and an adviser killed, while air attacks pause despite renewed fighting. Pope Paul VI urged new appeals for peace.
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Paul VI
Record Christ mas road toll hits 707 in three day holiday
The nine states report a nationwide 707 traffic deaths over a 78 hour period from Thursday 6 p m to Sunday midnight. Ohio 49 and Louisiana 32 record highs. weather and icy highways fuel fatal crashes across Oregon Oklahoma Minnesota Kansas and more amid 80 million vehicles on the road.
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Milton
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Antigo
Ohio
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Louisiana
Thomas Burbanks
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Oklahoma
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Sublette
Kan
Associated Press
Five Die In Minnesota Road Crash Amid Snow
Five persons were killed and three injured when two cars collided on Minnesota 55 near Buffalo as fresh snow made the road treacherous. The toll for the holiday period rose with additional fatalities in Onamia and Duluth and a death in Georgia involving a Hamline University student.
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Associated Press
Buffalo
Minn
Knowles to Decide Soon on Special Election
Gov. Knowles said he will decide this week whether to call a special election to replace the late State Sen. Jess Miller. The attorney general’s opinion says voters of the old 27th District must participate if a special election is held to fill the remainder of Miller’s term amid reapportionment changes.
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Warren P. Knowles
Jess Miller
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Attorney General’s Office
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Miller
Wife's Gift Put to Use in a Hurry
Red Wing Minnesota on Christmas Eve a caller reported a house fire after saying she gave her husband a fire extinguisher for Christmas and he used it to fight the tree blaze.
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Red Wing
Minn
Red Wing Fire Department
Kansas Crash Takes 7 Lives
Seven people were killed and seven injured Sunday afternoon near Sublette Kansas in a two vehicle crash at an intersection. The fatalities include Dana Blakeley wife of Lawrence Blakeley and three members of the James Simmons family along with Mrs Sabena Gonzales and two Saldiver children.
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Sabena Gonzales
Saldivers
Seon
Post
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Texas
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Gonzales
Saldiver
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Cindy
Reds Kill Man Taking Refugees To West Berlin
West Berliners returning from East Berlin Christmas visits watched as East German guards opened fire at the crossing. A car carrying four people was struck by crossfire near the wall. the driver was killed and another man was wounded or killed. The wall has been briefly open for Christmas travel through January 2.
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West Berlin
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UPI
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Hanoi says US violated air and sea rights during truce
Hanoi filed a protest claiming US aircraft and warships intruded into North Viet Nam air and waters on Christmas Day and Dec 23 24 1965. It cited reconnaissance activity and the seizure of three men from two boats in Thanh Hoa Province and demanded their release.
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South Viet Nam
U.S
Hanoi-Haiphong
Saigon
Washington
Tokyo
Viet Nam
International Control Commission On
Hanoi Radio
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Democratic Republic of North Viet Nam
Thanh Hoa
Tran Khoan
Tran Thuoi
Tran Tinh
Excitement Fatal for 2 Packer Fans
Two spectators collapsed and died at Lambeau Field during the Packers Colts divisional playoff game. The dead were Theodore Hummerding 54 of Antigo and George Arnold 62 of Fond du Lac. Two other fans also died at a previous Vikings Packers game.
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Theodore Hummerding
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George Arnold
Fond du Lac
Packers
Humprhey Heads for Far East on First Major Overseas Trip
Vice President Hubert Humphrey sails for a week long Asian tour visiting the Philippines Japan South Korea and Nationalist China. He aims to discuss Viet Nam and bolster his domestic image while meeting leaders Eisaku Sato Ferdinand Marcos Chiang Kai shek and Chung Hee Park. He travels with Mrs Humphrey and son Douglas and will return Jan 2 after stops in Tokyo Manila Formosa and Seoul.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
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Viet Nam
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Richard M. Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Seoul
Chung Hee Park
Woman Drowns in Snowy Christmas Eve in Minnesota
Accidental drowning ruled in the death of Mrs. Frank Hintz 42 a mother of five found in a bathtub at her Stillwater home by her son Donald on Christmas Eve AP reports.
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Minn
Frank Hintz
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