Christmas Courage Amid Diana Powers Battle
Diana Powers, a three year old with metachromatic leucodystrophy, is home for Christmas at 903 Delhi Drive with her family in Trenton. Her mother Cora Powers hopes to start a fund to aid research, while doctors search for a cure as Diana shows signs of a brighter season despite the illness. A hospital transfer last March and public donations funded care, including a $4,000 cooling machine to help manage Diana's fevers.
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Samuel
Cora Powers
Diana Powers
Powers
Delhi Drive
Grandview Hospital
Dayton
Diana
POW List From Hanoi Seen As Old Incomplete Propaganda
U S officials call Hanoi’s latest POW list old and incomplete, citing 378 Americans held in North Vietnam, 78 in Cambodia, and 3 in Laos, with about 1 600 missing or captive across the region. The release named 339 captive, 20 dead, and earlier released. Names include William J. Baugh, Burton Campbell, John Flynn, Edward Mechenbier, Thomas Moe, Cowan Nix, Bradley Smith, Robert Wideman, Alan Lurie.
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Hanoi
U.S
Paris
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D-Mass
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Committee of
North Vietnam
Cora Weiss
New York
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Davis
Ronald L. Ziegler
State Department
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Laos
Vietnam
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Piqua
Burton Wayne Campbell
Amherst
John Peter Flynn
Edward John Mechenbier
Dayton
Thomas Nelson Moe
Columbus
Cowan Glenn Nix
Warrensville Heights
Bradley E. Smith
Lake Milton
Robert E. Wideman
Rocky River
Alan Pierce Lurie
University Heights
San Antonio
Tex
Southeast Asia
Green Beret
James Rowe
McAllen
South Vietnam
Rowe
Pathet Lao
Wise Men Star Event to Glow Over Boston Christmas
Boston AP reports three planets Venus Jupiter and Mars will align near the crescent moon on early Christmas morning. Astronomer Walter N Webb explains the event resembles the Star of Bethlehem though the planets remain distinct points. Webb notes the idea traces to Kepler in 1604 and may have influenced Wise Men legends in Mesopotamia.
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Mars
Saturn
Walter N. Webb
Charles Hayden Planetarium
Boston Museum of Science
Webbb
Jesus
Mesopotamia
Webb
Judea
Johannes Kepler
Bolivia frees five Guevara era guerrillas
Bolivian Interior Minister Jorge Gallardo announced the release of French revolutionary Regis Debray and five other guerrillas tied to Che Guevara’s 1967 peasants uprising attempt. Debray and Roberti Bustos, an Argentine painter, were sent to Chile after parole from Camiri prison. Debray and Bustos had been serving 30-year terms. The four Bolivians had not been tried.
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Bolivia
Regis Debray
Che Guevara
Jorge Gallardo
Roberti Bustos
Chile
Camiri
Debray
Bustos
Guevara
Poland swears in new premier after Cyrankiewicz resignation
Jozef Cyrankiewicz steps down as Poland's premier and moves to ceremonial president's office. Piotr Jaroszewicz named his successor as Edward Gierek becomes party leader after Gomulka and Spychalski resign amid riots over price hikes that left many dead and injured.
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Cyrankiewicz
Piotr Jaroszewicz
Poland
Communist Party
Edward Gierek
Spychalski
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Jaroszewicz
Sejm
Gomulka
Cold weekend with low near two to three degrees
The forecast calls for cloudy and colder conditions tonight and tomorrow with lows around 2 to 3 degrees and highs in the mid 30s. Christmas day outlook remains cold with a chance of rain or snow. Yesterday peaked at 50 degrees and this morning opened at 40.
Easy Street Uneasy Implications Disturb County
In El Monte California a welfare office on a dead end named Easy Street prompts talk of renaming the street. County official Alvin Arvidson proposes the change citing community implications, but Easy Street owner M C Gill resists due to $10,000 in printed materials. Traffic committee decision expected soon.
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Los Angeles County
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Gill
Glen Welch
Traffic Safety Committee
Alvin Arvidson
Arvidson
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