Big Four Hold Second Mideast Peace Conference
United States Soviet Union Britain and France continued talks at the French ambassador’s residence seeking steps to implement the Nov 22 1967 Security Council call for Israel to withdraw from Arab lands end belligerence and allow navigation. Caradon suggested resuming Jarring talks if consensus formed. The 126 nation committee backed a move to urge Security Council action on Palestine refugees despite U S opposition and British French abstentions.
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United Nations
UPI
Middle East
Israel
United States
Soviet Union
Britain
France
Armand Berard
U.S
Charles W. Yost
Berard
Yost
Jacob A. Malik
Lord Caradon
Security Council
Gunnar V. Harring
Moscow
U.N
Caradon
General Assembly
Special Political Committee
Jarring
UN Urges Severe Penalty for Hijackings
The U N General Assembly legal committee approved a resolution by 67 to 1 with 17 abstentions urging states to criminalize hijackings and impose strong penalties. Cuba opposed the measure citing asylum rights concerns as the plan moves to the General Assembly.
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United Nations
UPI
Cuba
U.N. General Assembly
General Assembly
YAF Plans 600 Campus Protests Across U.S.
The Young Americans For Freedom announces a two day counter-offensive on 600 major college campuses December 12 and 13 labeled Vietnam Alternative Weekend. Activities include teach-ins and distribution of over one million copies of the tabloid Tell It To Hanoi. petitions in support of Nixon Vietnam policies to be sent to the North Vietnamese delegation in Paris.
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Washington
UPI
Young Americans For Freedom
YAF
David Keene
National Yaf
Vietnam
Hanoi
Nixon
Paris
Keene
NASA operates tracking sites across fourteen nations
Wide spread NASA facilities in fourteen countries monitor spaceships and deep space missions, supporting international tracking and data relay. The network enhances communication with orbiting craft and exploration probes.
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Houston
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Northwest Airlines strike postponed after midnight talks
Northwest Airlines and about 2000 TWU stewards and stewardesses agreed to defer a strike until Monday after federal conciliator Lawrence Farmer facilitated the talks. Fringes and benefits emerged as main issues amid union demands for higher pay and uniform costs while management prepared contingencies.
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Minneapolis
Farmer
Northwest
Stamps Fund 1.1 Million Acres For Wildlife Refuges
The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife has acquired about 1.1 million acres in a 15 year program to reach 244 million acres of wetlands by 1976. Lands bought partly through duck stamp sales to hunters join the National Wildlife Refuge System for waterfowl and other uses.
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Washington
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
National Wildlife Refuge System
Muzzling A Job For Mitchell
Mrs. John N. Mitchell argues for free speech while her husband, the attorney general, denies censoring her public remarks. He cites a Minneapolis dinner where photographers and newsmen covered the event as proof of her speech freedoms. He also suggests swapping the phrase liberals for violent radicals in a televised comment, reflecting the contentious clash over rhetoric.
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Minneapolis
Minn
UPI
John N. Mitchell
U.S
Mitchell
Mitchells
Clark MacGregor
Rminn
Eugene McCarthy
Dminn
Amundsen Finishes Northwest Passage Quest for Alaska
The first explorer to complete the Northwest Passage from Newfoundland to Alaska was Roald Amundsen of Norway. His voyage began in 1903 and lasted three years.
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ST. John's
Mid
Newfoundland
Alaska
Roald Amundsen
600 Air Hotel Chiefs Plan 2 Day Seminar In Las Vegas
Frontier Hotel hosts a two day Hotel Sales Management Association seminar opening Monday with a breakfast at 9. The event features a 25 by 20 by 11 foot Boeing 747 model and hosts Arthur Hailey and over 30 hotel airline and travel leaders including Najeeb Halaby Philip Lowe J W Marriott Jr Bud Wiser and Secor Browne. Advance reservations at Frontier total about 1609 for the breakfast and even more for a $3 noon luncheon with Halaby Lowe and Marriott speaking. The event aims for public attendance and annual December seminars.
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Frontier
Hotel Sales Management Association
McCarran
Las Vegas
Arthur Hailey
Jin
Secor D. Browne
Civil Aeronautics Board
Najeeb Halaby
Pan
American Airways
Philip Lowe
Sheraton Corp. F of America
J. W. Marriott
Marriott Hotels, FC
Bud” Wiser, Jr
Trans World Airlines
Francis T. Fox
Hughes Nevada
Pan Am
Philip Lowe Jr
Sheraton
Marriott and Wiser
Food Donations Jump Nearly $100 Million
The Agriculture Department reports federal food donations rose from $367.7 million in fiscal 1968 to $458.3 million in fiscal 1969, while pounds donated increased from 1.7 billion to 2 billion. Most gains occurred in the commodity program for needy families serving about 3.5 million people.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
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Bohn
Bonn
Frank J. Lowery
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