Booby trapped Christmas parcel injures guard and son
NEW WESTMINSTER B C The post office says a regular mailman delivered a brown wrapped parcel the size of a book that exploded when opened by prison guard Frank Newton 42 and his 10 year old son Norman. Newton lost both hands and Norman lost sight in one eye both hospitalized in fair to good condition RCMP investigated possible sender a former inmate at B C Penitentiary three people questioned released
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King Moshoeshoe II under house arrest in Lesotho
Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan ordered King Moshoeshoe II confined to the Maseru palace after a day of unrest that left six dead and more than 400 injured. Police, aided by the mobile unit, blocked access to the palace while authorities described the incident as a violation of the Emer gency Powers Act.
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Lesotho
Leabua Jona
South ’Africa
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Moshoeshoe
Commissioner of Police
China conducts fifth atmospheric nuclear test at Lop Nor
U S officials report China detonated its fifth atmospheric nuclear test at Lop Nor in Sinkiang Province on Dec 28 Chinese time. The yield is described as a few hundred kilotons. The earlier test occurred Oct 27, with China defying global pressure to halt atmospheric testing and continuing to develop nuclear capability.
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Sinkiang Province
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Chinese Lop Nor Proving Ground
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Lop Nor
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Johnson
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Hiroshima
Japan
China Xi Nuclear Test Timeline Reflects Power Aimed Warheads
The Oct 1964 explosive tests show U S authorities expecting a non guided missile duel and focusing on a more powerful weapon. Peking’s Oct 26 test avoided hydrogen or thermonuclear material, with the U S Atomic Commission identifying enriched uranium 235 as the explosive ingredient used in Chinese detonations.
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Peking
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South Vietnamese Launch Large Delta Offensive
Thousands of South Vietnamese troops swept the Mekong Delta in a major operation described as the war's largest yet. Paratroopers jumped from 33 planes in Chuong Thien province near Saigon, with 89 Viet Cong killed and 2 taken prisoner by late reports, while U.S. and ARVN forces reported additional skirmishes and casualties.
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Sudan beats coup attempt in Khartoum arrests two leaders
Sudanese armed forces foiled a coup against the government. Two lieutenants suspected as leaders were arrested and troops guarded bridges and government buildings. The government, led by Ismail El Azhari and Sadik El Mahdi, faces wider unrest amid past clashes and a banned Communist party.
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Sadik el Mahdi
Kennedy book dispute may end quietly in settlement
New York AP Kennedy family spokesman said the dispute over William Manchester's The Death of a President could resolve quietly as Mrs Kennedy withholds suit. Hearings were postponed to mid January to allow discussions on trimming passages. Publisher Harper and Row called progress steady and hopeful. book publication delayed to April 1.
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John.f. Kennedy
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Harper and Row
Asia 3 is top grain buyer
Canada’s wheat exports to China in Aug to Oct nearly match shipments to all of Western Europe. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics shows China took 40,903,865 bushels, far above Britain and the EEC totals, while Western Europe overall imported 42,163,325 bushels.
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Commission finds Erco monopoly in Canadian industrial phosphates
The restrictive trade practices commission reports a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary of a British chemical firm holds a monopoly on industrial phosphates for detergents. It notes the 1959 merger with Dominion Fertilizers formed Erco’s Canadian dominance, while Standard Chemical Ltd. remains a competitor in chlorate production.
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Restrictive’ Trade Practices Commission
Anti - Combines Commission
Electric Reduction Co. ‘of Canada. Ltd
Erco
Dominion Fertilizers' Co. Ltd
Robert S. MacLellan
D. H.W. ‘Henry
Combines Investigation Act
Erecoas
Standard Chemical Ltd
Beauharnois, Que
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
Seventeen of 30 British prison escapees still at large
London AP reports seventeen of thirty prisoners who fled during Christmas remain at large as one inmate returns voluntarily and another is recaptured. John Mackrell, 51, a mental patient convicted in 1947 for slaying a taxi driver, is new on the escape list. Parliament pressures Home Secretary Roy Jenkins for guaranteed remedies and improved measures to prevent further breakouts amid about 300 escapes this year. A long-term prisoner from Dartmoor, after crashing a stolen car at a police roadblock, is also involved. Police dogs were moved inside seven major prisons to curb the exodus.
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John Mackrell
Parlia
Ment
Home Secretary
Roy Jenkins
Dartmoor
Spellman backs victory stand in Vietnam war
Cardinal Spellman affirmed his stance that anything less than an allied victory in Vietnam is inconceivable. The remarks drew fire from Soviet commentators and North Vietnam, while Vatican circles questioned their harmony with Pope Paul’s peace efforts. Spellman called the conflict a war for civilization and praised American troops, stressing hope for a just, enduring peace without surrender. He spoke in Saigon after Mass, frail but in good health, amid a tour of U.S. troop sites.
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