British View Nixon Troop Withdrawals Spark Mixed Reactions
London newspapers offered mixed views on Nixon’s plan to pull 50 000 more American troops from Vietnam by next April. The Daily Telegraph praised the shift as encouraging, while the Guardian warned that Hanoi would endure and the Times saw a move toward prolonged lower profile fighting. International papers in Germany Japan and Hong Kong offered varied takes, with some calling it a political gift and others accusing the move of delaying settlement.
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Hanoi
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Moro
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Asahi Shimbun
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Frankfurter Allgemeine
United States
Hong Kong
America
Rights of Draft Objector Upheld
SAN FRANCISCO AP A federal judge ruled a young man may seek conscientious objector status based on religion even if he objects to a specific war. Judge Stanely Weigel struck down section 61 of the Selective Service Act as unconstitutional, denying absolute exemptions and highlighting equal protection concerns. Bowen, a Grand Rapids native, had sought Catholic justifications for refusals and faced induction orders.
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Leslie C. Bowen
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Bowne
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Cecil Poole
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Michigan Draft Board
Draft Board
Michigan Appeals Board
Man Questioned In Girl's Death
An unidentified man was held in Laplace for questioning in the slaying of Mona Kilchrist, 18, of Opelousas. Kilchrist's body was found near Evangeline Downs race track four miles from Lafayette after being abducted from a lounge in Opelousas.
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Mona Kilchrist
Opelousas
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Evangeline Downs
Armed Robbers Busy In Capital
In Washington police reported 80 robberies in a 24 hour period, the highest total in city history, with only one injury. The year’s robberies total about 7,000, up 60 percent from 1968, as Christmas business stayed brisk for criminals.
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Washington
Reindeer Theft Hits Snow White Cleaners Case
Police report that Donner Blitzen Dancer Dasher Comet Vixen Cupid Prancer Rudolph and 15 other reindeer were stolen in a burglary at Snow White Cleaners on Christmas Eve. The incident was detailed alongside another story in Denver.
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Snow White Cleaners
Viet Repairman Hearne Assigned in Vietnam Service
Army Specialist Four John L. Hearne 21 son of Mr and Mrs Herman C Hearne of Chatham has been assigned as an aircraft radio repairman with the 605th Transportation Company in Vietnam.
Envoys Of Hanoi Meet With Wives Of Three POWs
Paris AP North Vietnamese representatives agreed to receive a delegation of three American women from a group of 58 women and 94 children who had flown to Paris on Christmas to seek news of their husbands and fathers. The women attended a Christmas Mass at Notre Dame before heading to a left bank office of the Vietnamese delegation at the Paris peace talks. Police blocked access but later allowed a three-woman meeting with Tran Viet Dung for 1 hour 15 minutes. A Vietnamese communiqué described the visit as part of a dark Nixon administration scheme while condemning U S actions. The group planned to fly home after the meeting.
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Orly
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Onean
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Democratic Republic of Vietnam
U.S
Texan H Ross Perot aims to deliver gifts to POWs in Laos
Texas businessman H Ross Perot arrived in Vientiane Laos with a chartered jet loaded with gifts, food and medical supplies for about 1400 POWs. He may stay weeks to press Hanoi officials to allow shipment to North Vietnam. Perot met a Pathet Lao delegation and planned further talks with the delegation chief while avoiding a Christmas deadline.
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Laos
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H. Ross Perot
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Pathet Lao
Perot
Soth Petcharasai
U.S
Laotia
Bangkok
Los Angeles
Red Cross
United We Stand
Fire destroys Monroe house on Marx Street
A gas heater ignited paper causing a blaze that destroyed a Monroe home at 911 Marx St on Wednesday. Fire officials dispatched two pumper trucks but the house could not be saved. It was occupied by Eva Mae Carter and her four children. authorities noted a child came close to the heater with paper.
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Marx St
Monroe
Eva Mae Carter
Delinquent Bill Promptly Paid Amid Gift Delivery
Spokane resident Helen Marks, 20, ordered Christmas gifts by mail and paid a $4.80 C O D package on her doorstep after a delivery man arrived with a gift wrapped parcel. A typed note from a records company credit manager thanked her for settling the delinquent bill.
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Spokane
Helen Marks
Miss Marks
Eugene B Buckley Rites Planned At Urania Baptist
Funeral services for Eugene B Buckley 74 of West Monroe will be held Friday at 11 a m at Urania Baptist Church with Revs Jack Bacum and Doris Dearman officiating. Graveside rites follow at Pine Hill Cemetery under Riser and Son Funeral Home Columbia. Burial follows a brief illness. Survivors include son Sidney Buckley of West Monroe and two grandchildren. Body at church until service time.
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Linden Dr
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Urania Baptist Church
Jack Baucum
Doris Dearman
Magonie
Pine Hill Cemetery
Riser and Son Funeral Home
Columbia
Buckley
Sidney Buckley
Airman Freddie G Willis on duty in Vietnam forces
Airman Freddie G Willis son of Mrs Juanita Willis of 2211 Breard Street Monroe is on duty at Tan Son Nhut Air Base Vietnam He serves as an aircraft propeller repairman with the 460th Field Maintenance Squadron Pacific Air Forces He previously served at Sheppard AFB Texas and attended Northeast Louisiana State College Carroll High School graduate
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Juanita Willis
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Monroe
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Sheppard Afb
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