World Christians Celebrate Christmas Peace Across Regions
Christians worldwide focus on peace as 100 Belfast schoolchildren fly to London for a safe Christmas. GIs in Vietnam receive turkey dinners amid cease-fire plans and holiday flights home. Bethlehem and Holy Land ceremonies attract thousands, with Pope Paul VI urging unity.
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Associated Press
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Saigon
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Martha Raye
Chicago
Bowie
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Paul VI
Vatican
Indian Subcontinent
Northern Ireland
Middle East
Indochina
Rio de Janeiro
Parents and Children
Holy Land
Hoffa Reunites With Wife After Presidential Release
In a Glendale home reunion, James R Hoffa, former Teamsters leader, hugs his ailing wife Josephine after President Nixon commuted his 13 year sentence for jury tampering and mail fraud. Hoffa, 58, may not manage a labor group until March 6 1980, and says the release was routine.
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ST. Louis
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Nixon
Josephine Hoffa
Glendale
Federal
Lewisburg
Hoffa
Detroit
United Auto Workers
Leonard Woodcock
Settlement Likely For Pacific Docks
Government and union sources say a West Coast dock agreement is likely without a new walkout by 13,000 longshore workers in 24 ports. Federal mediator Counts announced the old contract would extend until Jan 10 to avert a Christmas Day strike.
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San Francisco
Pacific
Washington
J. Curtis Counts
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Mrs. Anna Dermody Dies At 77 In Mexico Missouri
Anna O'Brien Dermody, 77, of 602 South Olive Street, died Thursday night at Allen Nursing Home after a brief illness. Born December 31, 1893 in Audrain County, she taught in Novinger schools before marrying James F. Dermody in 1921. She was a St. Brendan’s Catholic Church member and is survived by sisters, inlaws, nieces and a Baltimore niece. Funeral services Monday at St. Brendan’s with burial in the church cemetery. rosary Sunday evening at the funeral home.
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S. Olive St
Allen Nursing Home
Audrain County
Edward Patrick
Katherine Morghan O'Brien
Mexico
Missouri State Teachers College
Kirksville
Novinger
James F. Dermody
St. Brendan's Catholic Church
Sara Owen
the Allen Nursing Home
Edward P. O’brien
Charles W. Brauer
Robert P. O'Brien
Sugar Creek
Charles W. Brauer Jr
Fulton
Jerry Brauer
Pat O’brien Potts
Baltimore
Dermody
Joe Carter
St. Brendan’s Catholic Church
Arthur J. Mersinger
St. Brendan's Cemetery
Precht-Pickering
Traffic Toll Count Begins On Christmas Weekend
The Associated Press reports 39 deaths from traffic accidents in the early hours of the Christmas holiday weekend. Rain and snow slowed travel across the Far West while the upper Mississippi Valley saw light snow. elsewhere roads were mostly clear and dry.
Hope says Hanoi promises POW release if Nixon dates withdrawal
Comedian Bob Hope reports a North Vietnamese official told him prisoners of war would be freed "tomorrow" if President Nixon sets a terminal withdrawal date. Hope said the North Vietnamese seven point proposal tied to the release to a date, while he acknowledged slim chances of entering North Vietnam for talks as a private citizen. He offered donations to North Vietnamese charities in exchange for releases.
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Paris
U.S
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Thanh
Hope
Judge forbids dumping in waterways and requires impact studies
A federal judge ruled all discharges into non navigable waters illegal and barred permits unless an environmental impact study is done. The decision affects about 20,000 permit applications, and expands the non navigable definition to include many streams and lakes. The ruling targets the Army Corps of Engineers EPA and shows potential challenges to the national pollution control permit program.
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Washington
Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr
Robinson
John R. Quarles, Jr
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
Quarles
Congress
Grand River
Ohio
Jerome S. Kalur
Donald Large
Kalur and Large
Army Corps of Engineers
Secretary of the Army
Environmental Protection Agency
No Red Noses For Christmas
Kansas City AP reports Missouri weather for Christmas shows highs in the 40s in the north and around 60 in the south with nights in the 30s. Partly cloudy skies expected both days with a slight cooling trend by Monday. Thursday readings ranged from 47 at Kirksville to 64 at Springfield and lows from 35 at Kirksville to 46 at Cape Girardeau.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kirksville
Springfield
Cape Girardeau
Women's faults are many says the old proverb
A dated quip attributed to a contributor notes that women are faulted for many things while men are accused of two faults in all that they say and do, reflecting a male gaze in social humor.
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