Defense Dept. Allows Volunteers With Minor Defects
Beginning Feb. 1 the Defense Department will accept volunteers with certain minor physical defects that can be corrected within six weeks. The program aims to add about 15,000 volunteers this fiscal year and may expand to make 100,000 previously rejected men eligible annually. Medical care is free, and consent is required for treatment. draft standards remain unchanged.
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Washington
UPI
Defense Department
Pentagon
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Armed Forces
U.S. Public Health
Veterans Administration
Hanoi evacuates children as war fears rise
UPI reports one third of Hanoi’s population, including nearly all children, evacuated amid fears of U.S. air raids. Hanoi officials say the city is on a war footing, with reports of civilians moving to suburbs and claims of U.S. attacks in early December. International replies and Communist denials surround the accusations.
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Tokyo
UPI
Hanoi
U.S
Tass
Trang Gui Hung
U. S
Italy Newsmen Strike Halts Papers Nationwide
Italian journalists announce a 48 hour countrywide walkout to protest publisher policies. The action, set for today and Saturday, will delay most papers until next Tuesday as Christmas day and the following day silence production. The union cites publishers prejudicial attitude after long negotiations broke down despite mediators’ pleas.
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Rome
UPI
Labor Ministry
Oil spill at Michigan home after deliveryman dumps oil
Walter Owens converted his heating plant to gas but kept the oil intake pipe. A deliveryman delivering 200 gallons to neighbor George Trombley saw the pipe and dumped the oil into Owens' basement.
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Iron River, Mich
Owens
George Trombley
Drunk Flying Behind the Controls Kills Light Plane Pilots
FAA official Dr. Stanley R. Mohler warns that about 30 percent of fatal light plane crashes involve alcohol. He notes pilots overestimate their ability after drinking and airport behavior mirrors driving, with 100 to 200 hours flight time as a dangerous threshold. From 1963 to 1965 about 550 fatal light plane crashes occurred annually, a similar share linked to alcohol as highway fatalities are to alcohol.
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Washington
UPM
Federal Aviation Agency
Stanley R. Mohler
Mohler
National Safety Council
Rhodesia Leader Seeks Republic After UN Sanctions
Prime Minister Ian Smith said Rhodesia, pressured by United Nations sanctions at Britain's urging, is obliged to declare itself a republic after Christmas. He asserted Rhodesia is no longer under British control and said a new constitution and legal steps would follow, while London dismisses the move as gobbledegook.
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Ian Smith
Britain
United Nations
Rhodesia
Smith
U.N
Elizabeth I
Harold Wilson
London
Commonwealth
Lawyer vows to free American held in Soviet jail
Salt Lake City attorney Craddock M. Gilmour and U S embassy officials visited Buek Wortham a 25 year old from North Little Rock Arkansas jailed in Leningrad for theft and buying black market rubles Wortham received a three year penal colony sentence and a 1000 ruble bank transfer was arranged to his name for possible departure Court ordered fine on Gilmours son Craddock Jr 1000 rubles for encouraging Wortham to buy illicit rubles The Gilmours prepared to depart for Moscow and London pending papers while Rozhdestvensky plans an appeal with Judge Nina I Isakova today
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Mour
U. S
Harland Moen
Buek Wortham
North Little Rock
Ark
Gilmour
Craddock Jr
Leningrad
Nina I. Isakova
Wortham
Fyodor S. Rozhdestvensky
Rozhdestvensky
Isakova
U.S
Moscow
Blood Aids Jack Ruby Cancer Patient
Doctors reported Jack Ruby breathing easier and chest fluid buildup slowing after receiving blood transfusions. The Oswald killer's cancer treatment progressed as his strength fluctuated slightly, with Dr. Eugene Frenkel leading the chemical therapy team.
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Jack Ruby
Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Eugene Frenkel
Belli's Bride Sues to Undo Japan Wedding
Pat Montandon sues attorney Melvin Belli seeking an annulment or declaration the nine week marriage in Sapporo was not legal. The suit says the Shinto ceremony was in Japanese and not properly recorded. Montandon seeks court costs and fees. Belli calls the marriage valid and hopes for an expedited matter.
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George T. Davis
Sapporo
Japan
Belli
Jack Ruby
Miss Montandon
Pat
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