African Pilot sails from Havana with 1000 Cuban relatives
The freighter African Pilot departed Havana for Port Everglades at 6 45 p m carrying about 1000 Cuban relatives or ransom prisoners to join loved ones in the United States. Women and children were boarded first amid heat and emotional stress as guards checked luggage and a few items were discarded. The ship’s master Alfred Boerum refused to exceed the 1000 passenger limit. Red Cross teams provided medical care cots and meals for the crossing while relatives gathered at a Miami area home to file departure applications.
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Havana
UPI
United States
Port Everglades
Fla
Miami
Prisoners’ Mothers Committee
Conchita Mendieta de Gutierrez
Fidel Castro
Red Cross
Red China backs Castro in 10 day Cuba support drive
Peking launches a nationwide ten day campaign praising Fidel Castro amid tensions with the United States. A mammoth rally is planned in central Peking as Beijing uses the moment to stress its split with Moscow.
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Red China
Cuba
Tokyo
UPI
China
Fidel Castro
United States
Peking Radio
Castro
Peking
Munich
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
Red Star
Khrushchev
Pekin
C L Kay To Speak At Lovington Chamber Banquet
Dr C L Kay dean of Lubbock Christian College will speak at the Lovington Chamber of Commerce banquet set for January 31 at Lovington High School Cafeteria. Tickets go on sale in January as Jim Jackson chamber manager notes plans take shape. Jim Jameson retiring chamber president leads banquet arrangements and the group will launch its annual membership drive after the dinner.
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C. L. Kay
Lubbock Christian College
Lovington
The
Chamber
Governor Bolack Calls for Traffic Safety Crash Program
Governor Bolack urged law enforcement to intensify traffic safety efforts as holiday tolls rose. He cited 45 highway deaths since December 1, including 14 during Christmas, up from 41 the prior year.
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Santa FE
API
Tom Bolack
Bolack
New Mexico
Quiet Christmas Arrests in Lovington
Lovington police and Lea County Sheriff report a quiet Christmas with one arrest for drunkenness and burglary on Christmas Day. A Lovington woman was hospitalized after an attempted overdose. Christmas Eve saw four arrests including two for drunkenness and fighting, plus charges of driving with a revoked license and hit and run.
New Mexico Faces Cold, Snow After Christmas
A storm that brought up to a foot of snow and sub zero temperatures moved out of New Mexico as a new front approached from the northeast. Raton fell to 8 below zero and Clayton to 2 below, with 12 to 14 inches of snow at Red River and several stations reporting a white Christmas for the first time in more than two years.
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New Mexico
Weather Bureau
Raton
Clayton
Red River
Colorado
Kennedy Opens Intensive Review of 1963 Budget Plan
President Kennedy began a daily, high level review of his 1963 legislative program with administration officials, congressional leaders, and the military. The fiscal 1963 budget nears a record 99 billion dollars as tax cuts on personal and corporate income are discussed for next year. Senate Leader Mike Mansfield joined the discussions, held aboard the Honey Fitz, with Treasury Secretary Dillon and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Heller attending the talks at the White House villa.
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Palm Beach
Fla
UPI
Kennedy
Congress
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
White House
Honey Fitz
India Rejects Chinese Demand in Border Memo
New Delhi reports India rejects a Chinese memorandum threatening counter measures if the Line of Actual Control is not accepted. The reply calls the Chinese demand inconsistent with disengagement aims and references a 12 4 mile withdrawal and a demilitarized zone proposal.
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New Delhi
UPI
India
Kennedy and Clay Lead In Ransome Prisoner Deal
In Washington and Lisbon reports detail the Bay of Pigs prisoner release negotiations. Fidel Castro demanded 2.9 million before freeing 1,113 prisoners, with Kennedy and Clay coordinating a last minute drive that raised or secured the funds. No casualties were reported in the Lisbon tremors.
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Kennedy, Clay
Fidel Castro
Justice Department
Lucius D. Clay
Castro
Cuban Families Committee
Bay of Pigs
U.S. Shores
John E. Nolan
Washington
Havana
Miami
Nolan
U. S
James B. Donovan
Atty
Kennedy
Gen. Clay
Clay
Robert B. Anderson
Treasury
Eisenhower
Robert Knight
Lisbon
UPI
Kennedy to meet six Cuban prisoners group leaders in Palm Beach
President Kennedy agreed to meet Thursday night with six leaders of the Cuban prisoner group recently returned from imprisonment after the Bay of Pigs. The talks were arranged in Miami by White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger and the group leaders at Kennedy's oceanfront holiday headquarters.
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Palm Beach
Fla
UPI
Kennedy
Manue- Artime
Cuba
Miami
White House
Pierre Salinger
Woman in Critical Condition After Christmas Pill Overdose
A 26 year old Lovington woman remained in critical condition at Lovington Lea General Hospital after reportedly taking a dose of sleeping pills. Police said she collapsed at home Tuesday while talking with a neighbor who found her and called for help. She was admitted Christmas day and remained unconscious Wednesday.
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Lovington
Lovington Lea General Hospital
Soviets Test Nuclear Devices Over Christmas Holiday
The Atomic Energy Commission says the Soviet Union conducted multiple nuclear detonations during December 23 to 24, with yields from low to several megatons, the largest amounting to 2.5 megatons. Izvestia hinted a halt if the U.S., Britain, and France also pause.
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Washington
UPI
Soviet Union
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
United States
Britain
France
U.S
Pacific
Nevada
Novana Zemlya
East German family escapes by armored bus to West Berlin
A bus carrying eight East Germans including two couples and four children broke through three border barriers near Babelsberg using homemade armored plates and a snowplow. Bullets shattered the windshield but no serious injuries occurred as they reached the Marienfelde refugee camp for Christmas.
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Berlin
East Germany
Babelsberg
West Berlin
Marienfelde
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Springfield
Mass
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Mikhail Smirnovsky
Acas
C.L. Kay
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Justice of Peace
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United Pres International
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Hobe Sound, Fla
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Council of Economic Advisers
Robert F. Kennedy
Maiami
Kennedys
Robert Kennedy
Izvestia
Fiocor
Neugersdorf Sachsen
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