New Year Strands Las Vegas Family in Hard Times
Clyde Knutson the 29 year old catering truck driver in East Las Vegas faces a bleak New Year with an injured leg and four behind on rent. Wife pregnant three children at home no income and no food the family slept in one room while neighbors and Herschel Gray aided them. Knutson seeks work despite pain and recalls past hardships while local citizens rally to help.
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Clyde Knutson
Las Vegas
Knutson
Johnny
Laurie
Bruce
Moulin Rouge
Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
Herschel Gray
Gray
Clyde
Hershel
Michigan
Exchange of hostages and renewed fire in Cyprus peace efforts
Greeks and Turkish Cypriots exchanged hostages in Nicosia as a fragile cease fire held amid renewed gunfire. West Berlin head Brandt urged direct talks with East Germany despite US warnings, saying talks beat stagnation. Dick Gregory led sit ins in Atlanta restaurants with no arrests. Johnson signed a 4.4 billion pork barrel public works bill despite opposition to a canal property transfer clause.
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Nicosia, Cyprus
UPI
Berlin
Willy Brandt
West Berlin
United States
Berlin Wall
Brandt
Gregory
Atlanta
Dick Gregory
Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
Executive Branch
Army
Cyrus Vance
Bulgarian diplomat sentenced to death for spying for CIA
Ivan-Assen Georgiev, 56, a former Bulgarian diplomat and counsellor to the Bulgarian mission at the United Nations, was sentenced by a Sofia Communist court to death by firing squad for seven years of spying for the CIA. The court said there is no appeal and confiscated $200,000 Georgiev claimed he received from the agency.
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Vienna
UPI
Sofia
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Ivan-Assen Georgiev
United Nations
Europe
BTA
Military Cutback Across Pacific and Europe
The Defense Department announced broad reductions in aircraft and units. Sixteen C124 Globemaster transports will move from Japan to Honolulu, while fighter plans drop by 14. Two squadrons of F100 fighters from Japan, about 50 planes, will form a new troop support wing at Alexandria.
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Japan
Honolulu
Defense Department
Alexandria
Where I Stand
Hank Greenspun reflects on shared years with Betty Chappell Barbara and Dick and the chances they missed due to lack of funds. He notes Betty’s bank runs in his Buick and Barbara’s maternity moments, and Dick’s role as Riviera Hotel manager. The piece ends with a New Year greeting to readers and friends of the Sun.
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Betty Chappell
Barbara
Riviera Hotel
Betty
PGA
the Sun
Night watchman wounded after deputy shoots intruder
Whittaker, a night watchman at Rich's for a week, was shot a few inches above the heart when Anderson fired after mistaking an intruder for a burglar. He was taken to the hospital by patrol car after exiting the office. Deputies Grewe and Anderson and officers Lamb, Gubser, and Simmons responded.
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Grewe
Anderson
Whittaker
Lamb
Ray Gubser, Jr
Glenn Simmons
Detective Bureau
Rich’s
Sheep Missing From Nativity Scene In Freezing Weather
Police in Manitowoc Wisconsin searched for a live sheep that disappeared from a nativity display amid sub zero temperatures. Officers warned that the animal is wearing a wool coat if spotted.
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Manitowoc
Wis
UPI
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Studebaker
Delicatessen
Kosha
Saar
World Briefs
Hank
Greenspun
Filipo Verde
Boleros
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