India Opens Swap Talks Over Sheik Mujibur Rahman
An Indian official said New Delhi may trade Bangla Desh civilians held in Pakistan for the safety of Sheik Mujibur Rahman and Bengalis in West Pakistan. Meanwhile 600 of 35,000 Pakistani POWs in Dacca began moving to India camps by train and boat as Dhar noted the plan is not yet offered to Bhutto.
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Dacca
India
Bangla Desh
Sheik Mujibur Rahman
West Pakistan
D. P. Dhar
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
New Delhi
A. M. Malik
Dhar
Sheik Mujib
Mujib
Pakistan
Bhutto
Sheik
Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan
East Pakistan
US and USSR to exchange space biology data in talks
The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to begin exchanging medical and biological data from space flights and to discuss exchanging scientists. Cochairs Dr. Charles A. Berry and Dr. N. N. Guravskiy will lead a joint working group to study lab exchanges and space biomedical data sharing with meetings planned annually and a May 1972 US site for the next session.
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Space Center
Houston
United States
Soviet Union
Manned Spacecraft Center
Cochairmen
Moscow
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Charles A. Berry
U.S
NASA
Life Sciences
N. N. Guravskiy
U.S.S
New Year Traffic Toll Forecast by Safety Council
Chicago AP report says the National Safety Council estimates 400 to 500 people will be killed in traffic accidents over the New Year’s Day holiday weekend. The 78 hour period runs from 6 p.m. Thursday to midnight Sunday. Last Christmas weekend saw 614 deaths, with an earlier forecast of 520 to 620.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Council
Trash Truck Decorated for Christmas in Kansas City
A decorated trash truck greeted Thaddeus Bownik’s neighbors in Kansas City before Christmas. The vehicle, with gold paint, wreaths, tinsel, bows, lights, and a small tree, was left after a flat tire and broken axle. Five families joined the playful display as a joke to explain the stationary truck, with neighbor Frank Cucchiara noting the decoration in lieu of moving it.
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Kansas City
Thaddeus Bownik
Bownik
Frank Cucchiara
Red Cross seeks humane treatment for Bangla Desh prisoners
The International Red Cross Committee said its delegates in Dhaka have contacted Bangla Desh authorities to press for humane treatment of those held by the new government. It confirmed receipt of a message from the Chinese Red Cross alleging atrocities and requesting intervention.
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Geneva
International Red Cross Committee
Dacca
Bangla Desh
Red Cross
No Big Drama Expected In Brandt Talks
President Nixon and West German Chancellor Willy Brandt begin a summit in Key Biscayne with cordial U S German relations and eased world economic tensions. They plan to exchange views on East West relations and a formal link between the United States and the European Common Market. Secretary Rogers and Foreign Minister Scheel meet, while Ziegler notes no dramatic developments or major agreements are anticipated.
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Key Biscayne
Fla
Nixon
Willy Brandt
Brandt
William P. Rogers
Walter Scheel
Western Alliance
United States
Ronald L. Ziegler
Bonn
Karl Schiller
Schiller
U.S
Cosmos 470 rocket launch lifts Cosmos series flight
The Soviet government announced that it launched the 470th satellite in the Cosmos series. It was the tenth Cosmos space traveler put into orbit this month.
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Moscow
Why We Laugh Says Seminar On Jokes At AAAS
PHILADELPHIA AP A seminar at the AAAS meeting explored why people laugh. Dr Werner Mendel of USC psychiatry argued humor expresses anxiety and tension without harming others and lets people say something suspicions without consequences. He cited jokes like the Boston Strangler gag to show hidden aggression and ethnic humor to reveal social beliefs.
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Philadelphia
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Werner Mendel
Dr. Mendel
University of Southern California
Boston
Peace talks halted as both sides cancel sessions
Paris AP: The United States and North Vietnam cancelled the next session of the Vietnam peace talks scheduled for Thursday, citing ongoing heavy air attacks and protest from Hanoi. North Vietnamand Viet Cong criticized the move, while liaison officers may set a new date.
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Paris
United States
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Nguyen Thanh le
Ly van Sau
Nixon
U.S
Laird
Washington
Hanoi
Johnson
Laos
Saigon
Personal News of Wellsville Thanksgiving Guests and Family Gatherings
Personal News from Wellsville lists holiday and weekend gatherings with relatives and friends across Missouri and nearby states. Names include Warrensburg Wellsville Bridgeton St Louis Eufaula Laddonia Columbia Geneseo Ottumwa Wellsville and Descriptions of dinners and visits at various homes.
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Warrensburg
T.O. Ham
Wellsville
C.W. Wilson
Harold Wilson
Bridgeton
John Wilson
Gertrude Deilers
Dot Eicher
St. Louis
Harry Shocklee
Phil
Terry Shaw
Eufaula
Ala
Joe Shaw
Laddonia
North Sutter
N.J. Rutherford
C.W. Conover
David
Charles Conover
Andy
Art Conover
Columbia
Wilbur Grignon
Debbie
Geneseo
Ill
Dale Grignon
Ottumwa
Iowa
Edith Conover
Gus Deichman
Dale Banke
Clarence Deichman
Three On Bikes Killed By Car Near Mount Vernon
Three youths riding bicycles were killed Monday evening near Mount Vernon Illinois when struck by a car on a rain slick country road. Victims were Douglas Garrison 14 Kenneth Garrison 12 and Terry Fields 11 all of Mount Vernon. The driver was not charged claiming he did not see the boys. Bicycles had no lights or reflectors.
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Mount Vernon
Illinois
Douglas Garrison
Kenneth
Terry Fields
Bookmobile schedule for Callaway County areas
The Daniel Boone Regional Library releases a bookmobile route for Callaway County on Saturday January 8. Calwood visits 10:45 to 11:30, Hatton Community 9:15 to 10:00, Auxvasse Community 10:15 to 12:15, and McCredie Kingdom City 1:30 to 2:00.
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Daniel Boone Regional Library
Callaway County
Calwood
Hatton
Auxvasse
McCredie
Kingdom City
Chicago Smokes Will Cost More
Chicago will impose a five cent per pack tax on all cigarettes starting January 1 after Judge Nathan M. Cohen upheld the city's right to levy the tax. The ruling overcomes challenges that the tax violated equal protection clauses of both Illinois and U.S. Constitutions. Revenue will fund city salary increases.
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Chicago
Nathan M. Cohen
Circuit Court
Illinois
U.S
Local couple loses chair on highway holiday drive
The Dalta couple hauled two chairs home before Christmas but one chair fell from their vehicle between Mexico and Laddonia on the return trip. They later bought another chair in town. The Ledger was alerted to an overstuffed chair found on Highway 54 and a local doctor received a framed fake Christmas picture showing him at a patient’s bedside with an arrow in his back.
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Dalta
Mexico
Laddonia
Highway 54
France
Paris
Satellite Didn't Fall In Michigan
Bad Axe Michigan officials and residents were puzzled by a Sunday radio report that a Soviet satellite would crash within 200 miles of Bad Axe. NORAD and NORAN said messages misled by garbled data, with splashdown later placed in the Indian Ocean near Australia. Local reactions were calm. residents dismissed it as likely junk.
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Bad Axe
Mich
Indian Ocean
Australia
Air Force
754Th
Port Austin
NORAN
Norad Regional Division
Duluth
Minn
Pentagon
Harbor Beach
John Stickney
Double Talk In Foreign Language Isn't Easy
A travel memoir from New York by Louise Cook recounts a French miscommunication during a hospital visit in Chalon-sur-Saone. The author translates for a husband with a torn muscle, navigating language barriers with a French doctor, an infirmarian, and outcomes including injections and a legible prescription.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
NEW York (Ap
France
Chalon-sur-Saone
Gift to Northwest Missouri State Library Heir to Max Jones Memorial
Mrs. Lucile L. Jones donated 250 to the Northwest Missouri State College Library in memory of her husband Max Jones. The gift brings the family total to 1000 for the journalism books memorial fund.
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Maryville
Northwest Missouri State College Library
Robert P. Foster
Northwest Missouri State College
Lucile L. Jones
Platte City
Max Jones
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Blue Shield
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Missouri
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