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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1968
Page
2
The piece recalls a medical miracle story of a patient at Sunrise Hospital and extends holiday wishes to the Van Lisse family. It also notes local figures and light anecdotes from Sahara Super Celebration, including a $100,000 Shower of Money draw and prize details.
Washington expert Samuel Archibald of the University of Missouri cites a likely clash between President-elect Nixon and Congress over executive privilege. He notes Nixon’s campaign stance on narrowly constraining privilege and predicts friction with a Democrat-led 91st Congress, while expecting more openness than the Johnson era. Archibald previously spoke on the topic in 1962.
In Joliet a pair of masked robbers ambushed the head teller at the National Bank of Joliet and escaped with about 150000 in cash. Leonard Kozak, 26, said the robbers hid behind teller cages as he arrived at 645 am. The robbers did not brandish pistols.
President elect Nixon met Eisenhower and outlined keeping FBI chief J Edgar Hoover and CIA head Richard Helms, with no set end date for their service. He met Republican leaders and discussed ratifying the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, while attending the wedding of Julie Nixon to David Eisenhower via closed circuit TV.
Tad Szule, New York Times correspondent in Czechoslovakia, was ordered to leave the country for abusing his position and seeking military secrets by bribing sources. Prague's Foreign Ministry cancelled his accreditation, saying his activities were incompatible with the journalist role. Szule, 45, denied the charges as baseless and said he was told to depart by Thursday.
Spain ends the 476 year old expulsion order as the Ministry of Justice grants recognition of Judaism. The Beth Yaakov synagogue opens in Madrid serving about 2,500 Jews. Rabbis Solomon Gaon Davis Kahana and Harold H. Gordon officiate the ceremony.
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