Gasoline rationing hits Rhodesia whites hard
Salisbury reports Rhodesia begins temporary gasoline rationing after Britain’s oil embargo. No coupons. wholesalers and retailers ration consumers. Private car owners receive about 100 miles of motoring per week with exemptions for doctors diplomats and disabled ex servicemen. Prime Minister Ian Smith noted six months of stock remaining.
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Reuters
Rhodesia
Britain
George Rudland
Commerce and Industry
Railways
Central African Airways
Central African Power Corp
Broadcasting Corporation
Ian Smith
RCAF to airlift 15000 gallons fuel daily from Leopoldville
The RCAF plans a Congo to Zambia oil airlift reaching 15,000 gallons daily with four C 130s. The first plane arrives tonight and three more follow from Canada, with pilots led by Wing Cmdr Gordon Webb.
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Zambia
Canada
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Hamilton
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Lusaka
Ndola
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United States
Rhodesia
Ndjili
England
Menzies Rejects Nigerian Proposal for Rhodesian Conference
Australian Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies rejects a Nigerian bid for a Commonwealth premier's conference on Rhodesia. He warns such a meeting would be disastrous, expose bitterness, and threaten Britain. He says no unanimity could be reached and Britain would be attacked. Pearson favors attending any Commonwealth meeting over Rhodesia.
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Canberra
Reuters
Robert Menzies
Rhodesia
Menzies
Britain
Pearson
Commonwealth
Wreckage of rig probed by divers
Divers probed the sunken Sea Gem oil rig wreckage off Cleethorpes after reports crew may be trapped. Police listed five dead eight missing and 19 survivors from the disaster that happened Monday forty miles north of the coast.
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Cleethorpes
England
Reuters
Sea Gem
North Sea
Jock Luand
British Petroleum Exploration
Luand
Bank door left unlocked in Jacksonville burglary scare
Larry Hanson found a suburban Jacksonville bank closed and apparently unlocked since Friday. He alerted police after tiptoeing inside and leaving without triggering alarms. Patrolman D. J. Crews investigated and found no disturbance.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Larry Hanson
D. J. Crews
Tet ceasefire called by Viet Cong during Lunar New Year
The Viet Cong announced a four day ceasefire from January 20 to 23 during Tet, allowing compatriots and military personnel to observe the festival. The move comes as the U S extends its air war moratorium another day and suspends B 52 raids while 286 combat sorties were flown in the south.
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North Viet Nam
Communist Liberation Front
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Gia Nghia
Fanfani Resigns as Foreign Minister Over Peace Feelers
Amintore Fanfani resigns as Italy's foreign minister amid criticism of his handling of a purported North Viet Nam peace feeler. He urges Jan six as effective date to allow testimony before the foreign affairs commission. He cites belief in Giorgio La Pira and maintains goodwill toward the peace proposal.
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Aldo Moro
Christian Democrat
Florence
Giorgio la Pira
Johnson
Professor Lynd in Hanoi to meet Viet Nam leaders
Yale history professor Staughton Lynd 36 along with Thomas Hayden 26 and Herbert Aptheker travel from New York to Hanoi via Brussels Prague Moscow Peking to meet Communist North Viet Nam and Viet Cong. They face possible penalties including a 5000 dollar fine up to five years in prison for visiting without state department permission.
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Yale
New Left
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Students For A Democratic Society
Herbert Aptheker
Lynch
New Haven
Conn
Viet Report
John McDermott
Brussels
Prague
Mos
Ottawa hotel grill bars cocktail pants for guests
Rudi Prins at the Chateau Laurier Hotel grills the supper club on fashion rules as a former model, Mrs P J Murray, protests wearing cocktail pants. Prins says dinner jacket attire stays while slacks are banned, an iron curtain of fashion ignorance, with no change to the policy.
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Ottawa
Rudi Prins
Prins
Chateau Laurier
P. J. Murray
Murray
Snow blankets coast as more storms loom
Record snow paralyzed the Fraser Valley and isolated Vancouver. Nanaimo tops 25 inches since Thursday, with Victoria’s 8.9 inches the heaviest one day fall since 1923. A second storm threatens, closing highways and prompting stay home appeals.
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Vancouver
Fraser Valley
Vancouver Island
Nanaimo
Victoria
U.S
Winter storms snarl traffic across Canadian coasts
Canadian weather battered from British Columbia to the Maritimes with winds up to 75 mph, heavy snow, and power outages. Flights were canceled at Sydney Airport, and inland provinces faced near blizzard conditions while Alberta and Saskatchewan expected subzero temperatures. In Victoria heavy snow delayed city operations until noon as crews cleared streets.
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Washington State
British Columbia
B.C
Fraser Valley
Kamloops
Philip Gaglardi
Metchosin
Victoria
Good Shepherd
Canada
Atlantic
Maritimes
Cape Breton
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
Sydney
Week long cold snap grips Prairies and railways
Cold air from Christmas Eve settles over the Prairies for a week with temperatures well below zero except southern Alberta. Snow endangers travel, delaying flights from Edmonton to Vancouver and slowing trans continental trains. RCMP report no major highway issues as light snow continues and northern Alberta stays 15 to 20 below.
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Edmonton
Prairies
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Dominion Weather Office
Vancouver
Air Canada
Here
Calgary
Lethbridge
Christmas holiday death toll rises across Canada
The Canadian Press counts 81 accidental deaths in a 78 hour Christmas period, with Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia totaling 63. Traffic led causes with 54 deaths and fires with 21. The total is 49 below the 1961 record and five above last year’s 76.
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Quebec
British Columbia
Canada
Canadian Highway Safety Council
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